Developing listening skills - part 3These exercises are intended for use with English Classical Players’ recording of Mozart’s Symphony No 40 included with the support material. Before trying any of the following listening exercises, listen to Track 1 of the recording up to the first moment of silence [44” of music]. Then play as much of it as necessary and as often as necessary for your pupils to be able to answer each question. 1. You have now heard all the instruments which play in this piece. Do they all play some of the time, most of the time or all of the time? [some]
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Which section of the orchestra do the instruments playing at the
beginning belong to? 3. Which instruments play right at the beginning? [violas, cellos and basses] 4. Which instruments join in playing the tune almost immediately? [violins] 5. When do some more instruments join in? [after 14”]
6.
Which instruments are they? From which section? 7. When do the horns play for the first time. [after 17”]
8.
Can you name some instruments which you didn’t hear play at all? Now move to Track 2 and the first part of the 2nd movement [1’02”]. Again, repeat as much as necessary. 9. What is the mood of this music? Does it seem faster or slower than the first movement? [this question records impressions, no strictly right or wrong answers]
10. You
heard instruments from three sections of the orchestra. Which were they?
11.
Instruments from which section are used least? [Woodwind] 12. Listen to the first ten seconds. Can you say how the composer has constructed this music? [Like a round – different instruments play the same tune one after another] Now move to Track 4. Start at 1’02” and play until 1’30”
13. A tune
is played first by the violins and then by another instrument. Now play the track from the beginning. 14. When do we reach the passage where the tune we heard before starts? [1’02”] |
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