Music Lesson: Major vs Minor Tonality - Sing! Step! Grow!

Описание: Listening out for different tonalities is a great aural skill to teach your kids. What's lovely is that students will then start to hear these differences and can then apply them to story telling situations. If you're reading a particular book with your class you could bring it to "movie" life by finding a piece of music that is "happy" sounding (which will mean it's most likely in a major key) and a piece of music that is "sad" sounding (minor) or even "dramatic" - mysterious or tense or even scary and put these pieces on while you read your book! See below for just a few links to great pieces of music on Youtube that are in a major or minor key. You might have some favourites also. Comment below if you have some great ones and please let us know if any of the links become unavailable.

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Another great song to help teach this concept is
   • Major Minor - MusicK8.com  

And
   • Fun Rhyming Song - Here Comes Ollie  

"Sad" pieces in a Minor Key
Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber played by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra    • BARBER Adagio for Strings  
Moonlight Sonata in C # minor by Beethoven played here by Rousseau    • Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement)  

"Dramatic" pieces in a minor key
The Four Seasons - Winter - by Antonio Vivaldi    • The Four Seasons, Op. 8, RV 297, "Winter":...  
Chopin's Funeral March (did Darth Vader just walk in the room?)    • Chopin - Funeral March (orchestral version)  

Happier pieces
The opening of The Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven is a beautiful piece to play whilst reading a joyful; natural; animals frolicking; small country village market; walking in the forest on a sunny day type of story. Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra on the Collins Classics YouTube channel    • (FULL) Beethoven Symphony No.6 "Pastorale"...  
On the same channel by the London Symphony Orchestra the orchestral works of Delius - the timings are included in the description are very helpful if you're after a particular scene - beautiful    • Delius -  Orchestral works (FULL ALBUM)