Quick update then on to the next listening assignment. Lessons will be canceled on Monday, in honor of Columbus/Indigenous People’s Day then resume Tuesday.
LISTENING #2: Music has the power to make us feel something and sometimes to tell a story. Many of you said that the listening assignment last week made you feel calm. It’s true, music allows us to feel what the composer or musician wants us to feel — just like magic! And at this Halloween season, here is one of my favorite examples of a piece of music that can tell a story — “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” by French Composer Paul Dukas.
I’d like you to listen to the video below once with your eyes closed. Imagine. What story does the music tell you? Share in the comments below. Then watch one more time with your eyes open to see what Disney animators interpreted the story of the music to be in the movie Fantasia. If you’d like more, find the entire movie on Disney Plus — full of creative animation to beautiful classical pieces. Enjoy!
Grant: something new, a person guarding it, it runs away.
ReplyDeleteConnor: thought of someone being chased, then getting scared, the person runs away, them gets caught again.
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