Students engage in a lesson which takes something constructed by the class, that would be normally classified as just sound, then work together to make what can be perceived to be music. Students construct a basic stringed instrument...

Students listen to selected solo instruments and place the instrument in its correct family of instruments; students also identify from listening to examples: orchestra, band, vocal solo, and choral performance.

In this music activity, students find the vocabulary terms that are describing the classical period of music. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.

Joseph Haydn's "String Quartet in G," Op. 76:1 is provided with the full choir score. Learn how to follow a score or simply enjoy the music from this era as you follow along.

This article, providing general information on the clarinet -- "a very popular woodwind instrument which originated in Islamic and Asian countries" -- includes an image of a clarinet, several references for reading and research, and a...