It makes it easy to recall these important facts and events in Vivaldi’s life throughout the lesson. To introduce Vivaldi’s birthplace, family, childhood, education, and musical career, students can look at my composer bulletin board. There are several great books available, and if you can’t find one, I like to just “ham it up.” Nothing gets your kids’ attention so much as when you are 200% enthusiastic and excited about the topic! Sometimes I read a book on the composer’s life and childhood.

I start the lesson with a brief biography, discussing facts and significant events in the life of Antonio Vivaldi. It also really works well that my school’s composer of the month for January is Vivaldi. I love teaching this lesson in January after all the holiday songs are put away, and winter is in full swing. Take a look at how I combine Vivaldi’s Winter from The Four Seasons with a well-known Disney song.įirst, I start with a composer lesson on Antonio Vivaldi. This particular lesson focuses on Vivaldi, one of our winter composers of the month and his music. That’s when I love to pull out a few of my favorite winter-themed music lessons. Students are just returning from break, and inspiration and energy are not at their highest.

This is winter, which nonetheless brings joy.January and February are difficult months for lesson planning in the elementary music classroom. Hearing Sirocco, Boreas, and all the winds at war Here is the sonnet that goes along with this movement: The pacing slows in the latter half as another dark mood threatens to overtake the proceedings, but the music suddenly springs to life with great vigor, and the work ends in a positive, if somewhat tense mood. Gradually the music comes to life, but with frosty swirls and the wind howling and chilling. This Allegro begins slowly, as if to convey one's bracing for the cold.

Today we present the third and final movement from Antonio Vivaldi's violin concerto Winter, which is part of the famous set known as The Four Seasons. From “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi, arranged for solo flute

Vivaldi seasons winter