INSTRUMENTOS DE LA ORQUESTA

INSTRUMENTOS DE LA ORQUESTA

1. LA ORQUESTA: FAMILIAS E INSTRUMENTOS.

2. IDENTIFICA LOS INSTRUMENTOS QUE SUENAN A CONTINUACIÓN

INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA
This website allows you to know the instruments of an orchestra and how they sound. Also, Philharmonia's expert players guide you through the intricacies of the instruments they play. 

Here you have another website to learn about instruments.

Here you have an activity about this extraordinary website and another one about the instrumens of the orchestra. 
Activity 1. Watch the video, listen and complete the sentences.
Activity 2. Read from page 3 to page 8 of the lesson and answer the questions.



3. INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLES.
A. THE ORCHESTRA
     This is a website where you can listen to the different sections of an orchestra.

  "Texas Instruments Foundation" is another website to know instruments and how they sound.

Listen to an orchestra playing "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten.

B. THE STRING QUARTET

Listen to the final movement of Haydn’s String Quartet in E flat, Op.33, No.2. It is marked presto (very fast). Notice how all the instruments have independent parts. 

C. THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Another example of a chamber orchestra, now playing "Brandenburg Concerto nº 5, 1st movement".

D. SPANISH BANDA DE MÚSICA

ACTIVITY 1

Hijo de la Luna (Mecano and Monserrat Caballé).



ACTIVITY 2

Listen to these three very special voices



ACTIVITY 3

Opera "The Magic Flute" by Mozart. Duet "Papageno and Papagena"



Opera "Carmen" by G. Bizet. Chorus "Avec la garde montante"



ACTIVITY 9

Try to guess which percussion instruments are played.

ACTIVITY 19

"The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"



ACTIVITY 20

"Bolero" by Maurice Ravel.



ACTIVITY 21

Identify the main voice or instrument in these musical pieces.