Listen and Learn

For the Listen and Learn Event, you must listen to at least 5 classical pieces and complete a corellating listening form or activity sheet for each piece.

Use this worksheet to help you plan your Training Program to complete this event: listen-and-learn

You may choose any piece of classical music and complete a generic listening form. Your teacher will tell you which listening form to complete:

Listening Form A

Listening Form B

Listening Form C

These worksheets ask you to listen and decide which instruments you hear. To help you learn more about different instruments check out these fun websites:

BBC Orchestra Guide

Arts Alive Instrument Lab

DSO Kids Instrument Encyclopedia

NY Philharmonic Instrument Storage Room

SFS Kids Instruments of the Orchestra

Carnegie Hall Back Stage

You may also complete a composer report sheet:

composer-report-1

composer-report-2

composer-report-3

Find information about composers on these websites:

Arts Alive Great Composers

Classics for Kids Composers

DSO Kids Composer’s Corner

NY Philharmonic Composer’s Gallery

On the DSO Kids Listening Library you can choose to listen to different instruments and pieces by different composers.

You can find classical pieces to listen to on the internet and information about different composers on many of the different websites listed under the links for Listen and Learn.

Hear is a list of great classical music to listen to: music-to-listen-to

Thanks to Wendy’s Piano Studio for the great forms!

You can also choose to listen to any of the pieces on the Classics for Kids website and complete the activity sheets that are provided for each specific piece on the website. These are great for younger children and guide the listener to hear specific things in the music.

Carnegie Hall has posted some interesting interactive listening adventures. You can listen to Britten’s A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra or Dvorak’s New World Symphony.

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