Year 2 music listening classes

Now that children can recognize some music styles, we are working on trying to remember specific music pieces. We were using Walt Disney Fantasia 2000 DVD to connect music pieces to stories and images to help in the recognition process. The music pieces include:

• Beethoven: 5th symphony, first mov.
• Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
• Shostakovitch: Piano Concerto Nº2, Allegro
• Saint-Saens: Carnival of Animals, Finale
• Stravinsky: Fire Bird Suite

We have also tried to make up stories based on other music pieces. You can help your child by asking him/her to come up with a story while listening classical music.