Open lesson "music depicts animals and birds." Musical works about nature: a selection of good music with a story about it, Music class Using images of birds and animals by composers
Pictures of the changing seasons, the rustling of leaves, bird voices, the splashing of waves, the murmur of a stream, thunderclaps - all this can be conveyed in music. Many famous composers were able to do this brilliantly: their musical works about nature became classics of the musical landscape.
Natural phenomena and musical sketches of flora and fauna appear in instrumental and piano works, vocal and choral works, and sometimes even in the form of program cycles.
Vivaldi's four three-movement violin concertos dedicated to the seasons are without a doubt the most famous nature music works of the Baroque era. The poetic sonnets for the concerts are believed to have been written by the composer himself and express the musical meaning of each part.
Vivaldi conveys with his music the rumble of thunder, the sound of rain, the rustling of leaves, the trills of birds, the barking of dogs, the howling of the wind, and even the silence of an autumn night. Many of the composer's remarks in the score directly indicate one or another natural phenomenon that should be depicted.
The monumental oratorio “The Seasons” was a unique result creative activity composer and became a true masterpiece of classicism in music.
Four seasons are sequentially presented to the listener in 44 films. The heroes of the oratorio are rural residents (peasants, hunters). They know how to work and have fun, they have no time to indulge in despondency. People here are part of nature, they are involved in its annual cycle.
Haydn, like his predecessor, makes extensive use of the capabilities of different instruments to convey the sounds of nature, such as a summer thunderstorm, the chirping of grasshoppers and a chorus of frogs.
Haydn associates musical works about nature with the lives of people - they are almost always present in his “paintings”. So, for example, in the finale of the 103rd symphony, we seem to be in the forest and hear the signals of hunters, to depict which the composer resorts to a well-known means - the golden stroke of horns. Listen:
The composer chose the genre of piano miniatures for his twelve months. But the piano alone is capable of conveying the colors of nature no worse than the choir and orchestra.
Here is the spring rejoicing of the lark, and the joyful awakening of the snowdrop, and the dreamy romance of the white nights, and the song of the boatman rocking on the river waves, and field work peasants, and hound hunting, and the alarmingly sad autumn fading of nature.
Among musical works about nature, Saint-Saëns’ “grand zoological fantasy” for chamber ensemble stands out. The frivolity of the idea determined the fate of the work: “Carnival,” the score of which Saint-Saëns even forbade publication during his lifetime, was performed in its entirety only among the composer’s friends.
The instrumental composition is original: in addition to strings and several wind instruments, it includes two pianos, a celesta and such a rare instrument in our time as a glass harmonica.
The cycle has 13 parts describing different animals, and a final part that combines all the numbers into a single piece. It’s funny that the composer also included novice pianists who diligently play scales among the animals.
The comic nature of “Carnival” is emphasized by numerous musical allusions and quotes. For example, “Turtles” perform Offenbach’s cancan, only slowed down several times, and the double bass in “Elephant” develops the theme of Berlioz’s “Ballet of the Sylphs”.
The Russian composer knew about the sea firsthand. As a midshipman, and then as a midshipman on the Almaz clipper, he made a long journey to the North American coast. His favorite sea images appear in many of his creations.
This is, for example, the theme of the “blue ocean-sea” in the opera “Sadko”. In just a few sounds the author conveys the hidden power of the ocean, and this motif permeates the entire opera.
The sea reigns both in the symphonic musical film “Sadko” and in the first part of the suite “Scheherazade” - “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship”, in which calm gives way to storm.
Another favorite theme of nature music is sunrise. Here two of the most famous morning themes immediately come to mind, having something in common with each other. Each in its own way accurately conveys the awakening of nature. This is the romantic “Morning” by E. Grieg and the solemn “Dawn on the Moscow River” by M. P. Mussorgsky.
Grieg's imitation of a shepherd's horn is picked up string instruments, and then by the whole orchestra: the sun rises over the harsh fjords, and the murmur of a stream and the singing of birds are clearly heard in the music.
Mussorgsky's Dawn also begins with a shepherd's melody, the ringing of bells seems to be woven into the growing orchestral sound, and the sun rises higher and higher above the river, covering the water with golden ripples.
It is almost impossible to list all the famous classical musical works in which the theme of nature is developed - this list would be too long. Here you can include concertos by Vivaldi (“Nightingale”, “Cuckoo”, “Night”), “Bird Trio” from Beethoven’s sixth symphony, “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Rimsky-Korsakov, “Les Goldfishes” by Debussy, “Spring and Autumn” and “ winter road"Sviridov and many other musical pictures of nature.
Goal: to systematize, consolidate and test students’ knowledge through various types of educational activities.
- nurturing: evoke a musical and aesthetic response to works; a sense of beauty through working with paints, interest and love for classical music;
- developing: promote the development of auditory attention, musical memory, imagination; developing the ability to compare musical works based on differences expressive means; promote the development of rhythmic movements to music, emotional responsiveness in the process play activity;
- educational: to ensure that students acquire knowledge about musical works depicting animals and birds; develop the ability to distinguish musical works; provide students with the opportunity to express their creativity in the process of practical activity.
Lesson type: combined lesson.
Teaching methods: reproductive, explanatory-illustrative, partially search-based, verbal, visual-figurative, practical, game.
Resources: CD player, music library, illustrations of animals and birds, piano, sheet music, sheets of paper, pencils and markers, blackboard, easels, student drawings.
Expected results: students will show a musical and aesthetic response to musical works, a sense of beauty through working with paints; are activated auditory attention, musical memory, imagination; Students will demonstrate the ability to compare musical works and will be able to move rhythmically to the music; will learn necessary knowledge on the topic, will demonstrate their creative abilities in practical activities.
Lesson Plan
| Current class time | Teacher's actions | Student Actions | Tools used |
| 5 minutes Organizational moment |
Greets the children, announces the topic of the lesson, and gives information about the lesson. | They enter the classroom, greet the teacher, go to their seats, and listen to information about the lesson. | |
| 10 minutes Updating knowledge |
Offers to sing the song “Merry Travelers”; conversation about musical and noise sounds, distribution of drawings into groups; plays the game "Beasts". |
They perform a song; answer questions; play a game (guess who the music represents, show with movements). |
CD player, audio recording of music; school board, illustrations of animals and birds; piano, sheet music. |
| 25 minutes Consolidation of learned material and introduction to new musical material |
Explains tasks; conducts the game “Flower-seven-flowered”; A conversation about a new piece of music with an illustration shown; invites children to show their creativity, distributes sheets, pencils and markers; Offers to show the “Dance of the Ducklings”, to convey figurative features in the dance movements; includes the song “Blue Car”; asks questions about the lesson material. |
Guess familiar music, find the right hero; analyze new musical material (answer questions), color and complement the proposed drawing, convey moods and feelings evoked by the music; sing along to the song; answer questions. |
CD player, audio recording of music, easel with visual material; illustration, sheets of paper, pencils and markers; audio recording of a musical piece; CD player, audio recording of music, songs; |
| 2 minutes Assessment |
Asks students to evaluate the lesson, distributes circles of different colors; assessment of student activities. |
They evaluate the lesson, choose a certain circle, taking into account their attitude. | Handout material. |
| 3 minutes Homework |
Gives and explains the homework assignment: 1. finish the drawing; Says goodbye to the children. |
They listen to the assignment, say goodbye to the teacher, and leave the classroom to the music. |
Lesson progress
(children enter the classroom and sit down)
Teacher: Hello guys and dear guests! I see that you are in a good mood, everyone is ready for the lesson and we can start our lesson. Today he is not quite ordinary. We will take you on a journey through the wonderful world of music. This world cannot be touched with your hands, or seen with your eyes, or tasted; it can only be perceived with your heart and soul. Then the world of music will give us amazing discoveries.
The lesson is called “Music depicts animals and birds.” Today you will perform different tasks, and faithful assistants will be your knowledge, attention, discipline, memory, curiosity, organization, imagination.
So we're going to the zoo. Imagine that you boarded a magic train. In order for it to go somewhere, you need to perform a song.
The train is in a hurry, the wheels are knocking.
And the guys are sitting on this train.
(Children perform the song “Merry Travelers” to music by M. Starokadamsky, lyrics by S. Mikhalkov.)
Teacher ( fits the easels on which doors with a lock are painted): Here we are, but the doors to the zoo are closed. If you answer my questions correctly, they will open. Are you ready to answer?
Children know everything in the world, there are different sounds.
The farewell cry of the cranes, the loud roar of the airplane,
The hum of a car in the yard, the barking of a dog in a kennel,
The sound of wheels and the noise of the machine, the quiet rustle of the breeze.
These are sounds...
Children: Noise.
Teacher: Correct. But there are also other sounds. Which?
Children: Musical.
Teacher: Now I will show you pictures of animals and birds, and you will use your voice to depict who is in the picture and determine what sound it is: musical or noise (the game “Name the sounds” is played, the drawings are distributed on the board in the right part)
(Appendix 1, Figures 1–13)
Teacher (opens the painted doors): Welcome to the zoo! ( children's drawings on the easel)
Teacher: Let's remember what musical sounds are in terms of pitch and duration of sound (Shows different sounds on the instrument).
Children: Tall, short, average; short, long.
Teacher: Musical sounds can depict not only the voice of animals, but also movements: for example, the soft tread of a fox, the clumsy movements of a bear, the way hares jump or a bird flies. Now let's play a game.
(The game “Animals” is played - musical material: D. Kabalevsky “Little Polka”, “Like a Waltz”, “Little Harpist”, “Piece”; children show with their movements who the music represents)
Teacher: Look, on our way unusual flower!
Miracle flower, miracle flower
Musical seven-colored flower.
Everyone has known for a long time:
There are exactly seven petals in it!Musical seven-flowered
He wants to play with you.
The seven-flowered flower will help you
Guess the animals and birds.
Teacher: Now this seven-colored book will help me check how well you remember the pieces of music that we have already listened to in class, as well as how carefully you can listen to new pieces of music.
(The play “Ballet of Unhatched Chicks” from the cycle “Pictures at an Exhibition” by M. Mussorgsky is played)
Teacher: What is the name of this piece of music?
Children: “Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks.”
(The play “Elephant” from “Carnival of the Animals” by C. Saint-Saëns is played)
Teacher: Who does the music represent?
Children: Elephant.
Teacher: What musical means did the composer choose?
Children: Low sounds, slow pace.
Teacher: What dance does an elephant dance?
Children: Waltz.
(Sounds like “Dance of the Little Swans” from P. Tchaikovsky’s ballet “Swan Lake”)
Teacher: What is the name of this musical number? From which ballet?
Children: “Dance of the Little Swans” from the ballet “Swan Lake”.
Teacher: In what cartoon does this music sound, what characters dance?
Children: “Well, wait a minute!” Chicken ballerinas and a wolf.
Teacher (teacher plays D. Kabalevsky’s play “Hedgehog”): Who did the composer portray in this play?
Children: Hedgehog.
Teacher: What sounds does it represent? What are they like?
Children: The sounds are short, abrupt, “prickly” like hedgehog needles.
(The play “Swan” from “Carnival of the Animals” by C. Saint-Saëns is played)
Teacher: Name the piece of music?
Children: "Swan".
Teacher: Remember the name of the fairy tale in which a small ugly chick turns into a beautiful swan.
Children: "The Ugly Duckling."
Teacher: What is the name of the ballet number to this music?
Children: "The Dying Swan."
(The play “Kangaroo” from “Carnival of the Animals” by C. Saint-Saëns is played)
Teacher: Who do you think the composer portrayed in this play, what did he call this play?
Children: “Kangaroo”, the composer depicts her jumping.
Teacher: The seven-flowered flower has one petal left (the petal turns over, the children read the inscription)
Children: "Aquarium".
Teacher: This is a new piece that I invite you to listen to today. The composer uses “musical colors” to depict the inhabitants of the aquarium. What happens in an aquarium?
Children: Water, plants (algae), stones, shells, sand, snails, colorful fish...
(Figure 14, seeAppendix 1)
Teacher: The composer created light, transparent music that seems to sparkle and shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow (sheets of paper are distributed with a picture of an empty aquarium - algae, stones, shells, etc., pencils and felt-tip pens)
(Figure 15, cm. Appendix 1)
In front of you is an aquarium, while the music is playing, fill it with colorful fish.
(The play “Aquarium” from “Carnival of the Animals” by C. Saint-Saens is played - 2 times)
Teacher: Of course, for this short time It is impossible to create a beautiful aquarium. Therefore, you will take them home and finish drawing them. And now I ask you to leave your desks and stand in pairs. We will dance. I will be a mother duck and you will be my ducklings
(The “Dance of the Ducklings” is performed, the children convey the figurative features of ducklings in their dance movements, and at the end of the dance they sit down at their desks)
Teacher: So, our journey has come to an end. Remember what new musical works you were introduced to.
Children: “Elephant”, “Hedgehog”, “Kangaroo”, “Aquarium”.
Teacher: What did you learn by listening to these plays?
Children: In the play “Elephant” the composer uses low sounds, the elephant dances a waltz slowly and heavily. In the play “Hedgehog” the sounds are short, “prickly”, like the needles of a hedgehog. In the play "Kangaroo" the composer depicts jumping. The play “Aquarium” depicts different inhabitants of an aquarium, the music is very beautiful and colorful.
Teacher: We will also meet in class with music that depicts animals and birds. Our lesson is ending, I want to know whether you liked it or not, in what mood you are leaving. I will give you mugs of two colors: yellow - you liked the lesson, green - you didn’t like it. Show that circle how you evaluate the lesson
(Children evaluate the lesson)
Thank you for your active work in class, attention and kind attitude. It was a pleasure working with you today. Today you all get "5".
Your homework will be: complete the drawing, prepare and recite a poem or short story about an animal or bird.
I wish you new interesting encounters with music. The lesson is over. Goodbye!
(Children say goodbye and leave the classroom)
Yana Ivanova
Thematic lesson “Music talks about animals and birds” (senior group)
Form classes: meeting in music room.
Target classes. Strengthen children's understanding of richness and diversity musical language.
Tasks:
1. Deepen children's perception music of a figurative nature. Teach children to feel character music, speak out about emotional and figurative content. Learn to transfer in dance movements characteristic features character images.
2. Develop pitch hearing and creative abilities in d/games "In the Poultry Yard", develop singing skills skills: sing expressively, naturally. Improve musical memory through recognition of melodies from individual fragments of a work.
3. Educate musical taste in the works of classics, love for animals.
Preliminary work: Listening to the works of C. Saint-Saens "Chickens and Roosters", "Elephant"; conversation about works, about ballet, learning dance "Chicks", chants "In the Poultry Yard" I. Rybknoy, songs "Bull" I. Bodrachenko.
Vocabulary work: clumsy, clumsy, heavy, commotion.
Equipment: multimedia installation, presentation on the topic, tape recorder, a/records, magnetic board, metallophone, d/game "In the Poultry Yard", chicken costumes.
M. r. Guys, today we meet with you again in our music room, which means that we will again find ourselves in amazing world musical sounds. Guys, you know that music always conveys some kind of mood, she can depict a portrait of a person, she can tell about emotional experiences, draw the beauty of nature. And today I want to show you that music can also convey images animals, birds, their habits.
Now I'll tell you a wish musical riddles, if you guess them correctly, the answer will appear on the screen.
/A fragment of the play sounds "Elephant" K. Saint-Saens/
Children. This play is called "Elephant".
M. r. Why did you decide that?
Child. The elephant is big, heavy, clumsy, and music, depicting him, sounds low, heavy, clumsy.
M. r. That's right, guys. /A picture appears on the big screen "Elephant"/ What do you think in this play music tells us about the elephant who stands calmly, or is he walking, or perhaps is he trying to dance?
Children. The elephant dances the waltz. Our elephant is very tries to dance beautifully, but he is large and clumsy, moves slowly and ponderously. The melody sounds low.
M. r. Well done guys. Now let's listen to the next fragment. You again need to guess the name and talk about a familiar play.
/Sounds an excerpt from the play "Chickens and Roosters" K. Saint-Saens/
Children. This play is called "Chickens and Roosters". Music depicts a real commotion in chicken coop: Loud clucking of chickens and crowing of a rooster. /Image of a chicken coop on the big screen/
M. r. You have completed the task again.
M. r. Now name the composer who composed these wonderful plays.
Children. This is Camille Saint-Saens. /A portrait of Saint-Saëns appears on the screen. /
M. r. Today I want to introduce you to another play. It's called . It was written by the composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky/There is a portrait of Mussorgsky on the screen. / Who knows what ballet is?
Children. Ballet is musical performance , in which the actors on stage only dance.
M. r. Right. In the play "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" music tells how the chicks are born. They hatch from eggs, break the shell with their beaks and wings and climb out of it. Funny, funny, they make awkward movements, push each other. The chicks are so small, defenseless, weak, but very curious. They want to quickly get out of the shell into the light and look around. And now I invite you to watch an animated film created on music M. P. Mussorgsky. /Children watch a cartoon "Pictures at an Exhibition"/ /
M. r. Guys, let's also turn into little chickens and dance a funny dance. /Children put on chicken hats and dance "Polka Chicks"/.
M. r. And now we take off our hats and become guys again. /In the background there is a screensaver - a poultry yard/.
Guys, look, in front of us is Grandma Natalya’s yard. Who lives in her yard?
Children. Geese, chickens, ducks.
M. r. Grandma Natalya has a lot of homemade birds. Morning came and everyone went out to the poultry yard. Ducks splashed in the puddle, geese strolled importantly, preening their feathers, and chickens fussed about in search of food. The geese got tired of walking around just like that and they decided to compose a melody to make everyone have more fun. The geese chose the bottom ruler for themselves and sat down on it importantly, the ducks were asked to sit on the middle ruler, and the hens - on the high one. Let's all compose a melody for them together.
/A game is being held "In the Poultry Yard". Children lay out a melody, then play it on a metallophone. /
M. r. Let's remember the chant "In the Poultry Yard". We'll sing along "Echo". /The child begins, the rest repeat/.
/Spanish chant "In the Poultry Yard"/
M. r. Guys, it’s not just the family that lives with grandma Natalya. birds, but also animals. Listen to the intro to the song and guess who will appear in the poultry yard now?
/M. r. plays the intro to the song "Bull", children guess, a bull appears on the screen /
M. r. Let's sing our favorite song about him.
/Spanish children song "Bull"/
M. r. It was getting towards evening, everyone had already begun to go home, when suddenly a strange sound was heard, like a rustling and snorting. All animals and birds They became frightened and suddenly... who did they see?
Children. It's a hedgehog!
M. r. Absolutely right. The hedgehog was shy for a long time and did not dare to go into the poultry yard. And now he has found many new friends here.
M. r. Guys, let's sit down and see what the hedgehog brought us. /A song sounds "Hedgehog" with display on screen/
M. r. He gave you guys not only his wonderful song, which we will definitely learn, but also gave gifts - delicious apples. The hedgehog collected them himself autumn garden. Guys, what are we talking about? music told us today?
Children. Today music told us about animals, birds.
M. r. About which animals?
Children. (children's answers).
M. r. This concludes our meeting in the music room is finished. Until next time.
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Images of animals, birds, fish in music The presentation was prepared by a teacher of theoretical disciplines MBOUDO DSHI s. Vostok Goldstein Anna Anatolyevna
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A few words about music... In a person’s life, music can be a friend, a comforter, and a dream. But some people (often unknowingly) assign her a secondary role, not even suspecting that she is a goddess capable of elevating human soul, touch the kind, noble strings in her. Our great compatriot writer Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov expressed an important thought about music: “You can’t help but love music. Where there is music, there is no evil.” Even listening to unfamiliar music, you suddenly realize that it expresses exactly your feelings and moods: sometimes sadness, sometimes wild joy, sometimes a shade of mood that cannot be defined in words... It turns out that all these emotions were also experienced by another person - composer, and then managed to express in the sounds of music a huge variety of feelings and moods that excited him. And it doesn’t matter what century the composer lived in - in the 18th or 20th, there are no boundaries for music: it moves from heart to heart. It is in this property of music - expressiveness - that it lies. main strength. The phenomenon of music is that, without brushes and paints, it can paint any image: be it feelings, experiences, pictures of nature or images of animals, birds, fish, etc.
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In the works of many composers of foreign and Russian music there are images that characterize animals and insects. An example of this is the following musical works: C. Saint-Saens. Characters from the symphonic suite “Carnival of Animals”; S.S. Prokofiev. Cat, Wolf from the symphonic suite “Peter and the Wolf”; Yu. Levitin. Characters from the symphonic suite “On a Forest Path”; A. Honegger. "The Rat and Death" from The Tale of the Games of the World; M. Krasev. Children's opera “The Tsokotuha Fly”; D.B. Kabalevsky. “Hedgehog”, “Dance of the Young Hippopotamus”; N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. "Flight of the Bumblebee"; V. Rebikov. "Frog"; E. Grieg. "Butterfly"; V. Gavrilin. “Bear” and others. Images of animals, insects
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Images of birds are especially loved by composers of different eras and countries. An example of this is the following musical works: C. Saint-Saens. Characters from the symphonic suite “Carnival of Animals”; S.S. Prokofiev. Bird, Duck from the symphonic suite “Peter and the Wolf”; N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. “Songs and Dances of Birds” from the opera “The Snow Maiden”; M. P. Mussorgsky. “Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks” from the piano cycle “Pictures at an Exhibition”; P.I. Tchaikovsky. Ballet "Swan Lake"; A. Lyadov. "Magpie", "Cockerel"; V. Rebikov. "Sparrow"; R. Schumann. "Owlet"; E. Grieg “Bird” and others. Images of birds
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Images of fish, the sea element Images of fish in the works of composers are not reflected as widely as images of birds or animals, but images of the water element are presented in full. Examples of this include the following musical works: N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov. Operas “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “Sadko” (introduction to the opera, dance of the goldfish); P.I. Tchaikovsky. "Barcarolle" from the piano cycle "The Seasons", Ballet "Swan Lake"; K. Debussy. Symphonic suite “Sea” (“From dawn to noon on the sea”, “Games of waves”, “Dialogue of wind and sea”), “Reflections in the water”, “Sunken Cathedral”, etc.; K. Saint-Saens. Characters from the symphonic suite “Carnival of Animals”; I. Strauss. “On the beautiful blue Danube”; M. Ravel “The Play of Water”, “Boat on the Ocean”; A. Glazunov. Symphonic fantasy “Sea”; A. Handel. "Music on the water" A. Dargomyzhsky. Opera "Rusalka"; M.K.Ciurlionis. "Sea"; A.G. Rubinstein. Symphony No. 2 “Ocean” and others.
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