Adventures in Music Listening Student Activity Book Level 3

An integrated elementary listening program for music classes, regular classes, libraries and home use. Includes 25 great musical selections complete with historical information, composer/arranger biographical information, musical features sketches, cross-curricular connections and anticipated outcomes. Meets the National Music Standards.

Activities go along with the musical selections - activities such as: which set of musical events best represents the form of the music, how many times do you hear the theme, sing the melodies, circle the dynamics pattern you heard, write your impressions of the music that seem to be special (melodies, tempos, instrument sounds, etc.), check the statements that are true about the music you heard, etc.

Featured Musical Works

• Poto Poto - African
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring from Cantata No. 147 - Bach
• Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, First Movement - Beethoven
• March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique - Berlioz
• "Jets Theme and Rumble" from West Side Story - Bernstein
• Academic Festival Overture - Brahms
• Blue Rondo a la Turk - Brubeck
• Clair de Lune - Debussy
• Harbor Vignettes - Donaldson
• Symphony No. 9 From the New World First Movement - Dvořák
• Embraceable You - Gershwin
• American Salute - Gould
• Piano Concerto in A Minor First Movement - Grieg
• Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah - Handel
• Mercury, the Winged Messenger from The Planets - Holst
• Symphony No. 2 Fifth Movement - Ives
• Overture to The Marriage of Fiagro (Le Nozze di Figaro) - Mozart
• Symphony No. 1 (Classical), Op. 25 First Movement - Prokofiev
• Pines of the Appian Way from The Pines of Rome - Respighi
• Danse Macabre - Saint-Saëns
• Traumerei from Scenes from Childhood - Schumann
• Come to My Garden from The Secret Garden - Simon/Norman
• Symphony No. 4 Third Movement - Tchaikovsky
• Somerset from English Folk Song Suite - Vaughan Williams
• Prelude to Act I from The Mastersingers from Nuremberg - Wagner