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Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Listening Library HandoutDallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Listening Library Handout
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra
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3rd - 5th
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Handout

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Listening Library

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At this resource listen to a selection of audio clips that feature the works of a full range of composers and a full orchestra of instruments. Scroll down an alphabetical list to find the composer or instrument you want, then choose the piece that you would like to hear.

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Concepts

classical music, composers, maracas, piano, johann sebastian bach, ludwig van beethoven, wolfgang amadeus mozart

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banjo, bass clarinet, bass drum, bassoon, castanets, cello, chimes, clarinet, classical composers, contrabassoon, cymbals, double bass, flute, ginastera, glockenspiel, gong, harp, harpsichord, hindemith, horn, listen music, listening to music, moncayo, music appreciate, oboe, orchestra instruments, organ, piccolo, rozsa, saxophone, snare drum, tambourine, timpani, trombone, tuba, viola, xylophone, aaron copland, antonin dvorak, antonio vivaldi, aram khachaturian, arcady dubensky, bach, beethoven, benjamin britten, berlioz, bernstein, brahms, britten, camille saint-saens, charles ives, christopher hazell, claude debussy, copland, debussy, dmitri shostakovich, dubensky, dukas, dvorak, enesco, english horn, ferde grote, franz liszt, french horn, gabrieli giovanni, george enesco, george gershwin, gershwin, giovanni, grote, gustav holst, gustav mahler, harris, haydn, hazell, hector berlioz, holst, igor stravinsky, ives, janacek, johannes brahms, john williams, jongen, joseph haydn, joseph jongen, khachaturian, kodaly, korsakov, leonard berstein, leos janacek, liebermann, liszt, lowell liebermann, mahler, maurice ravel, modest mussorgsky, mozart, mussorgsky, nikolai rimsky-korsakov, ottorino respighi, paul dukas, paul hindemith, peter tchaikovsky, piotr ilyich tchaikovsky, prokofiev, rachmaninoff, ravel, respighi, richard strauss, rimsky-korsakov, robert schumann, roy harris, saint-saens, schumann, sergei prokofiev, sergey rachmaninoff, shostakovich, still, strauss, stravinsky, tchaikovsky, vivaldi, william grant still, williams, zoltan kodaly, orchestra, triangle, trumpet, violin, music analysis and appreciation

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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