Music and Expression
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Age Range: Elementary
Learning Objective: Students will listen to Mozart’s ‘Gran Partita’ and understand the connection between music and emotions.
1. Music helps us express ourselves and connect to our emotions. People write music to express themselves. People sing or play instruments to express themselves and connect to their feelings. People listen to music to connect to their emotions and feelings.
2. Watch Class Notes: Expression in Music -- Mozart's 'Gran Partita'
3. After watching, think about the questions each student answered in the video. Here are the questions again. Answer them in a discussion with someone else, or journal your answers on a sheet of paper. You can listen to Mozart's music from the video here.
LISTEN Serenade No. 10 for Winds in B-flat Major, K. 361, "Gran Partita" III. Adagio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
National Chamber Players; Lowell Graham, conductor
• What do you think Mozart was trying to express in the music you heard?
• How does Mozart's music make you feel?
• What do you want to express through music?
4. For older students, find more activities related to this video here.
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