It’s all about engaging their hearts and minds in an effort to train their affections.įinally, move into some subject integration with books to help you learn more about birds. Let’s harness it! Correct answers are not the point here - let THEM decide what part sounds like the bird and what part sounds like the thunderstorm. Music is powerful for engaging the mysterious right brain – where creativity lives. Then do some Musical Sketching and have them draw the elements as they listen to the piece.Įven just teaching your kids that music CAN sound like something is enough to open up their little brains in new and creative ways. The idea of making music “sound” like something was really unusual, as most all music existed only for the church.įor your lesson, read the sonnet and have your kids make a list of what they are listening for (birds, stream, breeze, thunderstorm, birds again). What’s really interesting about The Four Seasons is how ahead of his time Vivaldi was. Then they die away to silence, and the birds take up their charming songs once more. Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar, casting their dark mantle over heaven. The birds celebrate her return with festive song,Īnd murmuring streams are softly caressed by the breezes. Here is the sonnet for the portion of Spring we are talking about today: So here is the bottom line of what The Four Seasons is all about: Vivaldi took sonnets about each season (some people think he wrote them himself, but no one knows for sure) and wrote music to accompany each. So it starts at the beginning and ends at the 3:32 in this video: Spring is the first season in the piece, and today we are focusing on the first movement. This video is for the entire work - four seasons, three movements for each season ( movement is just a fancy way of saying a distinct part).
Our January playlist including a portion of the beautiful Winter from Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and today we get to talk about Spring. It is probably the portion you are most familiar with. But soon the trees will agree, and before long I will be complaining about how hot it is. Spring is here! At least on the calendar. The March playlist rolls on…here are the lessons we have done so far: Want to incorporate classical music appreciation as a weekly component in your homeschool schedule? Come check out my kid-friendly, easy-on-the-parents Music Curriculum.
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