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Time to move on from composers to instruments… after all… someone had to play the music that those guys wrote! So first you will be introduced to the four families and their instruments, then the orchestra and its layout. There are some worksheets you must complete to help you familiarise yourself with this work. No need to submit. We will mark once back at school. There are also plenty of awesome videos on YouTube where they show you how these instruments are made. So if you can (not compulsory!) go check it out! Type in: How ……. (instrument) is made

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Mrs. fin Instrument families All instruments are divided into four different categories, based on:

String Brass Instruments Instruments

Woodwind Percussion Instruments Instruments

Find the Instrument instruments Wordsearch listed below the wordsearch

Flute Harmonica Recorder Oboe Guitar Viola

Cornet Saxophone Bazooka Accordian Panpipe Clarinet

Bagpipe Zither Piccalo Ocarina Fiddle Snare The smaller the instrument, the Brass higher it plays.

Instruments The bigger the instrument the lower it plays.

A is a musical instrument that you play by vibrating your lips into a (that is placed against your mouth) to pro- duce high or low notes (this is called buzzing). No sound will come out if you just blow air through it! Interestingly, it does not matter whether the instrument are made of brass, as long as it works the way explained above. Brass instruments can be gold, rose gold or silver in colour.

Trombone List any other instruments considered to be Brass Instruments

French

Horn

Trumpet

Tuba Single reed: Clarinet, Woodwind Saxophone

Instruments Double reed: Oboe, Bassoon

Woodwinds are a type of musical instrument that produces sound when a musician blows air into or across the mouthpiece. Mouthpieces are placed inside the mouth and air is blown into the mouthpiece (with the exception of the flute, which is played blowing air down into the mouthpiece which is placed against the bottom lip). They get their name from the fact that most of them were once made of wood. Today they are made of other materials which includes metal or plastic. List any other instruments considered to be Woodwind Instruments

Flute

Bassoon Alto Saxophone

Oboe

Clarinet Fine bows for vio- lins can use up to String 150 horse hairs. Instruments

All stringed instruments produce a sound by strings vibrating. Musicians do this by rubbing a bow against them, striking them, or plucking them. There are three ways that strings can produce different notes:

• Length - Longer strings vibrate slower making a lower note than shorter strings. • Weight - Heavy, thick strings make lower notes than lighter, thin strings. • Tightness - A tight string makes a higher sound than a loose string. The strings are usually made from nylon thread or steel wire.

DID YOU KNOW: Most civilizations have produced some kind of stringed instrument.

Bow List any other instruments considered to be String Instruments Violin Cello

Viola Harp

Guitar

Double Bass Confusing Fact: The piano and harp can be classified as Percussion either a String or as a Percussion Instruments instrument!

Percussion instruments are musical instruments that generally are used to establish rhythm (that is why they are also called the rhythm section). Percus- sion instruments make a sound when they are struck, shaken, scraped, plucked, or rubbed. Some percussion instruments can play melodies. These are called tuned percussion instruments. They include: xylophone, glockenspiel, vibra- phone, tubular bells and timpani. Untuned percussion instruments include: bass drum, side drum (snare drum), maracas, castanets, cymbals, tambourine, claves and many more. Xylophone List any other instruments considered to be Woodwind Instruments

Maracas Drums

Piano

Tambourine

Triangle

Cymbals Mix Match Colour in the instrument bubbles using the code below: * String Instruments - Yellow * Percussion Instruments - Red * Woodwind Instruments - Blue * Brass Instruments - Green Jumbled

. Noise The oboe and bassoon uses Clue 1 Clue 6 this reed. Single Reed Brass instrument players must do this with their lips to make a sound.

The way in which a player Clue 2 Clue 7 applies their mouth to the Tuned Untuned mouthpiece. Percussion Percussion Uses 150 strands of horse

hair.

Use the clue cards to ? These rhythm instruments can Clue 3 Clue 8 play different notes. Double Reed Buzzing

Big instruments produces a ...

Lower notes on a string instru- Clue 4 Clue 9 ment is produced by a... Violin Bow Low Sound The player of this instrument

blows down to make a sound.

Clue 5 Clue 10 The timpani is an example of... Thick String Flute

The clarinet and saxophone

answer the questions and write down the number uses this reed. Do you know your definitions

The Orchestra

An orchestra is a large group of musicians who play together on a variety of string, wind and percussion instruments. A large orchestra is sometimes called a symphony orches- tra (about 100 players) and a small orchestra is called a chamber orchestra (between 30 and 40 players). The number of players will depend on what music they are playing and the size of the stage where they are playing.

Leading the group of musicians in the conductor. He/she helps the players to play together, to get the right balance so that everything can be heard clearly, and to encour- age the orchestra to play with the same kind of feeling

The instruments of the orchestra are organized into families and that is how they sit in the orchestra.

Build it Can you fill in where the different instruments of the orchestra sits? Also colour in the different instrument families using the following colours. Read the story for some clues!

As the Meastra (female conductor) of your very own orchestra it is important to know where your sections sit so you can help them while playing the pieces. Colour in the Brass, the Woodwinds, the Strings and the Percussion From left to right we start in the front with the smallest string instruments and move over to the biggest string instruments. The harpist sits in her own little block! The Flutes and oboes sits behind the violas and behind them is the clarinets and bassoons. In the second back row we have the French horns, , and , all in one row! Lastly,, we have the loudest section of them all!