Conductors Count

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Conductors Count

Dear First Grade Music Explorers,

Hi! You have worked so hard this year and have learned to read very, very well! Hooray! You are terrific word detectives and know how to sound out syllables in words. Here's a fun music and reading lesson that you can "conduct" with your family and friends while you teach them to read in syllables, too! Love, Ms. LaRoche

1. Gather your family and/or friends together for your "conducting" lesson.

2. Make sure you have your chopstick baton ready.

3. Read the names of the composers and teach your family and friends how to clap out the syllables. For example, Mo - zart has 2 syllables so your family and friends will clap two times and say Mo - zart while you conduct them in the 1 - 2 beat. If the are repeating the word Beethoven, then they will clap 3 times and say Bee-tho-ven while you conduct in the 1-2-3 beat. Have fun!

Conductors Count Composers

Renaissance (1450-1600)

1. Palestrina _____ syllables

2. Tallis _____ syllables

3. Byrd _____ syllable

4. Morley _____ syllables

5. Bull _____ syllable

6. Dunstable _____ syllables

7. Caccini _____ syllables

Baroque (1600-1750)

1. Monteverdi _____ syllables

2. Vivaldi _____ syllables

3. Telemann _____ syllables

4. Bach _____ syllable

5. Handel _____ syllables

6. Pachabel _____ syllables

7. Scarlatti _____ syllables

8. Tartini _____ syllables

9. Rameau _____ syllables

10. Couperin _____ syllables

11. Strozzi _____ syllables

Classical (1775-1825)

1. Haydn _____ syllables

2. Mozart _____ syllables

3. Beethoven _____ syllables

4. Schubert _____ syllables

5. Salieri _____ syllables

6. Rossini _____ syllables

Romantic (1825-1900)

1. Berlioz _____ syllables

2. Mendelssohn _____ syllables

3. Chopin _____ syllables

4. Schumann _____ syllables

5. Wagner _____ syllables

6. Strauss _____ syllable

7. Brahms _____ syllable

8. Bizet _____ syllables

9. Tchaikovsky _____ syllables

10. Dvorak _____ syllables

11. Grieg _____ syllable

12. Rimsky-Korsakov _____ syllables and _____ syllables

13. Mahler _____ syllable

14. Puccini _____ syllables

15. Liszt _____ syllable

16. Bruckner _____ syllables

17. Smyth _____ syllable

18. N. Boulanger _____ syllables

20th Century

1. Debussy _____ syllables

2. Sibelius _____ syllables

3. Williams _____ syllables

4. Ravel _____ syllables

5. Bartok _____ syllables

6. Stravinsky _____ syllables

7. Prokofiev _____ syllables

8. Shostakovich _____ syllables

9. Holst _____ syllable

10. R. Strauss _____ syllable

11. Elgar _____ syllables

12. Tailleferre _____ syllables

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