Our school has a wonderful music department and the students get at least an hour a week with a specialist music teacher. Some of the students also go to music tuition to learn to play a musical instrument. All of Year 2 learn either the violin or the cello. So this blog will look at musical instruments and which ones to play.
This is a striking and award-winning illustrated volume originally published in French tells the story (without words) of a whimsical symphony conductor who ventures into the forest and conducts a musical movement of trees that magically become birds in flight. Spread after beautiful spread draw the reader in as this charming tale explores in colour, perspective, and motion an amazing musical transformation. You can almost hear the score swelling off the pages...
You can watch this book, set to music here.
There are a lot of instruments to choose from. Perhaps this book will help.
A fun, rhythmic picture book about finding the music that is perfect for you! A boy who loves to make noise gets to pick only one instrument (at his parents urging) in a music store, but there is too much to choose from! There's triangles and sousaphones! There's guitars and harpsichords! Bagpipes and cellos and trombones! How can he find the one that is just right for him out of all those options?
The first section of the orchestra is the strings, that is all the instruments that that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners. Most of the string instruments in the orchestra are played using a horsehair bow. These are the violins, the violas, cellos and double bases. Harps and harpsichord's are considered stringed instruments but they are not played with a bow.
There's an abundance of picture books in the library that feature string instruments. Look for these:
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