At the Link Up concert, you will see and hear many types of musical instruments. Each instrument has unique characteristics, such as the different ways they produce a sound, the materials used to create them, and their overall appearance. These characteristics ultimately divide instruments into four families: woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings.
Pause after each instrument and ask the following questions: What do you notice about this instrument? What is unique about the way this instrument sounds? Below are some characteristics to keep in mind as you go through this activity with your students: Appearance colors, shapes, sizes Materials used wooden tubes, metal tubes, reeds, double reeds, wooden bodies, strings Mechanisms and structures slides, valves, bells, f-holes, finger holes, mouthpieces, bridges, bows, keys, pads, separable sections, mutes How sound is produced breath, buzzing lips, fingers, bows, striking, shaking, scraping Show students how the families are grouped together on the stage by reviewing The Orchestra Map PDF.
We are going to identify instruments of the orchestra. Fill in the boxes next to each image. Also, write in one musical fact about each instrument. Notice that the first example is completed for you. Part 2 Audio Play the eight instrument identification tracks below. Compare and discuss answers. Play tracks again as needed. Be the Conductor.
Discuss the role of the conductor in an orchestra. Why does an orchestra need a conductor? How does a conductor communicate with the orchestra during a performance without talking?
What other types of musical ideas might a conductor want to share with the orchestra besides the tempo and meter? As you practice your Link Up repertoire throughout the year, invite individual students to be the guest conductor and lead the class, making their own musical choices. The Conductor For all of the instruments of the orchestra to play together, they need someone to lead them.
Instruments Form Ensembles At the culminating Link Up: The Orchestra Swings concert, you will see two ensembles performing together: a symphony orchestra and a jazz ensemble consisting of piano, bass, drums, trombone, trumpet, and saxophone or clarinet. Which instruments do these ensembles have in common?
What are some differences that you notice between the ensembles? String instruments produce sound when its strings are plucked, strummed or hit directly by fingers. Sound can also be made when another device, such as a bow, hammer or cranking mechanism, is used to make the strings vibrate. String instruments can be further categorized into three groups: lutes, harps, and zithers. Lutes feature a neck and a bout.
Think of a guitar, violin or double bass. Harps have taut strings within a frame. Zithers are instruments with strings attached to a body. Examples of zither instruments include the piano, guqin or harpsichord. Woodwind instruments create sound when the air is blown inside.
This might sound like a brass instrument to you, but woodwind instruments are distinct in that air is blown in a particular way. The musician might blow air across the edge of an opening, or between two pieces. Depending on how air is blown, instruments in the woodwind family can be divided into flutes or reed instruments. Flutes are cylindrical devices that require air to blow across the edge of a hole.
Flutes can then be further divided into open flutes or closed flutes. On the other hand, reed instruments feature a mouthpiece that the musician uses to blow into. The airstream then makes a reed vibrate.
Reed instruments can also be further categorized into single or double reed instruments. Examples of woodwind instruments include the dulcian, flute , fluorophore , oboe, recorder , and saxophone.
As you can probably guess, keyboard instruments feature a keyboard. Common instruments in the keyboard family include the piano , organ, and synthesizers. Though not an official instrument family, the human voice was the first instrument. Read more about how the human voice can produce a range of sound, including alto, baritone, bass, mezzo-soprano, soprano, and tenor. The Sachs-Hornbostel Classification system is the most prevalent musical instrument classification system used by ethnomusicologists and organologists.
The Sachs-Hornbostel system is so widely used because it applies to instruments across cultures. They organized a system that classifies instruments based on materials used, pieces featured and how sound is produced. In the Sachs-Hornbostel system, instruments are categorized into the following groups: idiophones, membranophones, aerophones, chordophones, and electrophones.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Absil, so for the most precise ensemble playing, the strings need to be in the front.
During the late 19th century the typical conductor location changed. Now the conductor stands in front of the first row of audience, with his back to the audience, facing the orchestra and facing the performers on stage. A symphony is a large-scale musical composition, usually with three or four movements.
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