Antonio Vivaldi Winter from The Four Seasons, Allegro non molto (1st mvt) Primary KS2 2nd Level Classroom Lesson Plan Written by Rachel Leach Trailblazer Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi was one of the very first composers to write
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Antonio Vivaldi ‘Winter’ from ‘The Four Seasons’, Allegro non molto (1st mvt)
Primary / KS2 / 2nd Level Classroom Lesson Plan Written by
Rachel Leach<br>
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Trailblazer Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi was one of the very first composers to write programme music – music designed to evoke thoughts of places and things in the world around us.<br>
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Lesson outcomes After this lesson, pupils will be able to:
listen and reflect on a piece of orchestral music
create their own piece of music using instruments and voice
perform as an ensemble
learn musical language appropriate to the task<br>
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Curriculum checklist Learners will:
play and perform in ensemble contexts, using voices and playing musical instruments
improvise and compose music for a range of purposes using the interrelated dimensions of music
listen with attention to detail and recall sounds with increasing aural memory<br>
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Glossary of music terms<br>
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Lesson 1
Watching and listening<br>
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Background – the composer Antonio VIVALDI
(1678–1741)
Italian composer, teacher and violinist
A superstar among baroque composers, he wrote mostly concertos and operas<br>
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Background – the music ‘Winter’ from ‘The Four Seasons’, Allegro non molto (1st mvt)
A group of four violin concertos written around 1721
Inspired by anonymous sonnets, each one describes a season. The sonnets were possibly also written by Vivaldi
They are one of the first examples of ‘programme’ music – i.e. music that tells a story
Each ‘season’ has three movements – fast: slow: fast
They are his most famous works and among the most famous pieces in the history of music<br>
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Watch the orchestral performance<br>
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How might you feel in cold weather, and what would you do to warm up?<br>
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Write a short, four-line poem using some of your ideas<br>
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Lesson 2
Frozen dances<br>
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Count out loud to 8! Keep repeating it Now, on the beat of 1, make a ‘frozen’ shape with your body<br>
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Create a dance as if you are blowing in the wind, or dripping or melting away<br>
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Lesson 3
Dripping icicles<br>
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Tap a pulse, like dripping icicles<br>
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Add some notes! Play these notes and rhythms on pitched instruments<br>
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Lesson 4
Secret sonnets<br>
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Warm up – using wintery sounds!<br>
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Vivaldi used to write short poems Frozen, trembling on the ice
In gusts of horrid wind, we run
Stamping our feet to keep warm
Our teeth chattering
Add one line of this into your ‘frozen’ music<br>
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Lesson 5
‘Solos’ and structure<br>
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Which bits of your piece could be performed as a solo?<br>
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Try to structure your piece in Ritornello form FULL ORCHESTRA – SOLO – FULL ORCHESTRA – SOLO – FULL ORCHESTRA – SOLO etc<br>
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Lesson 6
Performance time!<br>
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Recap Full class ‘dripping icicles’
Solo sections
Ritornello structure<br>
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Practise and perform!<br>
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Taking it further – cross-curricular activities MUSIC: Listen to the other movements of Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ or his other ‘Four Seasons’. Many other composers were inspired to write music based on the seasons and weather. Listen to Haydn’s ‘Seasons’, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, mvt 4 (‘storm’) or from BBC Ten Pieces, Benjamin Britten’s ‘Storm Interlude’ from ‘Peter Grimes’.
MUSIC: ‘The Four Seasons’ are concertos. Other concertos featured in BBC Ten Pieces are: Mozart Horn Concerto, Haydn Trumpet Concerto, Gabriel Prokofiev Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra.
ARTWORK: use your new music, your poems or Vivaldi’s music to inspire artwork.
UPLOAD: Show us what you’ve created! Submit your creative responses using our Uploader for a chance to be featured on the Ten Pieces website .<br>
