Music Listening & Responding
Digital & Print Resources
Music Listening and Responding Teacher Resources
Helping To Explore Compositional Elements
The Take Note Music Listening and Responding Series provides rich learning experiences through engagement with Art Music. Responding to Art Music through listening, movement and the use of visual listening maps & worksheets, builds musical knowledge and appreciation in the music classroom.
These innovative digital resources equip students to recall, understand, interpret, analyse, evaluate and create in response to a composer’s manipulation of the compositional elements of music.
The Compositional Elements diagram represents the tools that a composer uses to create interest when composing a musical work. One or more elements will be the focus for each Listening & Responding resource.
Digital Listening - Peter & The Wolf
Beginner Level - mid-Primary/Elementary
Provided as a pdf, this digital resource may be stored in your login area on our website and also downloaded.
Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf is a programmatic work that was written with the intention of introducing children to orchestral instruments. As the children listen to the story, told by a narrator with orchestral accompaniment, they become familiar with 7 interesting characters that are depicted by 7 instruments.
Tell the children the story using the picture story book (retold and illustrated by Ian Beck) available from Take Note Music. (See below).This engaging resource brings to life the story prior to the children delving into the Listening Resource activities.
The written activities are targeted for beginner Primary/Elementary level and designed to be used over at least 3 different lessons where the students revisit the recording.
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Digital Listening - Peer Gynt Suite - In the Hall of the Mountain King
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Beginner and Intermediate Levels - mid to upper Primary/Elementary
Provided as a pdf, this digital resource may be stored in your login area on our website and also downloaded. It consists of worksheets, lesson plans, listening map, audio and notation resources for listening activities in the music classroom AND includes a video to support the implementation of the creative movement lesson where students enjoy the physical ‘playing out’ of Peer’s adventure. Click on the product for further information.
Treble Clef Farm Series - Mrs Clef
The Treble Clef Farm Series – featuring the beloved ‘Mrs Clef’, includes 2 eBook picture story books with embedded sounds plus 18 treble theory worksheets.
Filled with opportunities for vocal exploration, this engaging eBook series is written as a farmyard story with embedded sound files which model then allow for student response. It is the perfect starting block for developing an understanding of music notation in the treble staff.
A must-have for any music schools, classrooms or homes that are musically minded.
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Music Listening & RespondingMrs Clef’s Vegetable Garden – Treble Clef Farm eBook 2
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Prokofiev – Peter & the Wolf
Peer Gynt – In the Hall of the Mountain King – including LISTEN & MOVE video
These digital resources for the music classroom include:
- black-line master worksheets and listening maps
- music notation
- instrument photos
- diagrams and embedded audio files
- composer information and maps
- our new LISTEN & MOVE choreographed movement to music videos and more!
The Compositional Elements diagram represents the tools that a composer uses to create interest when composing a musical work. One or more elements will be the focus for each Listening & Responding resource.
Mrs Clef eBooks
Available in Apple Books
eBooks available on Apple Books and the Photocopiable Blackline Masters available separately for MAC and PC (including Teacher Notes) or in the download bundle with both eBooks.
Available for Download
- eBook 1
- eBook 2
- Photocopiable Worksheet Masters with Teacher Notes ** Purchase separately or as a full package
eBook 1 - Mrs Clef's Chicken Coop
Opportunities for Vocal exploration
- Bees buzzing high and low in the chicken coop (embedded audio file) can be used as inspiration for the students to vocally explore the concept of high and low in the stave
- Each chicken sings a ‘Bok’ (embedded audio file) as it lays an egg in a specific ‘space’ in the chicken coop. Students are encouraged to echo this sound, which matches the correct pitch in the ‘stave’.
- The chickens ‘hum’ the ‘A’ (embedded audio file), produced by the tuning fork. Students are encouraged to echo this sound.
eBook 2 - Mrs Clef's Vegetable Garden
Opportunities for Vocal exploration
- Bees buzzing high and low in the chicken coop (embedded audio file) can be used as inspiration for the students to vocally explore the concept of high and low in the stave.
- Each magnified mouse (embedded audio file) corresponds to the specific pitch of the ‘line’ in the ‘stave’. Students are encouraged to echo this sound, which matches the correct pitch in the stave.
- The rhyme EGBDF is repeated six times: in a whispering voice, a loud voice, a low voice, a squeaky voice, a high voice and a singing voice. Students are encouraged to echo this rhyme whilst exploring the timbre of their voices.
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Take Note Music aims to assist teachers to bring these master works to life for students. We’re proud to be working hard to provide you with these valuable teaching resources!
Peer Gynt Suite – Morning Mood – Intermediate to Advanced
Peer Gynt Suite – Dances – Anitra’s Dance and Arabian Dance – Intermediate to Advanced
