Classical Kids Music Lessons: Expression in music
Music helps us connect to our feelings and express ourselves.
Classical Kids Music Lessons
With school canceled across Minnesota, it can be hard to fill your kids’ days. Classical MPR is here to help with Classical Kids Music Lessons. Every day, we’ll post a fun, listening-based lesson created by Classical MPR’s education specialist. Have some fun, learn something new, and introduce kids to the joys of classical music.
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Smooth moves dance party
It's the weekend -- time for more dancing! This time, we will listen and move to music with legato, or smooth, articulation.
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Dreams
Listen to music inspired by all kinds of dreaming, featuring pieces by Amy Beach, Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz and more.
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Theme and variations
Listen to a melody, and notice all the ways a composer can change and vary that melody. Make your own theme and variations!
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Melodic contour
Notice the shape and direction of many different melodies.
Classical Kids Music Lessons: So many sound sources!
Listen and think about how sounds are produced, and learn about several South American instruments, including the charango, the zampona and goat hooves.
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Piano and forte, the dynamics duo
Loud and soft sounds make music more exciting. Learn to use music vocabulary to describe what you hear.
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Music and Color
Did you know music has color? Listen and learn about musical timbre.
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Dance party!
It's the weekend -- let's have a dance party!
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Cymbal player for a day
Be the cymbal player in Mahler's Fifth Symphony. It takes careful listening and practice!
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Pizzicato Party
Sometimes strings are plucked, and sometimes they are bowed. Can you hear the difference?
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Patterns in music
Explore a very popular pattern in today's at-home music activity, featuring Isaac Albeniz's 'Asturias.'
Classical Kids Music Lessons: What does outer space sound like?
Explore the sounds of outer space in today's at-home music activity, featuring Gustav Holst's 'The Planets.'
Classical Kids Music Lessons: Cello magic
Discover the magic of the cello and looping pedals in a mesmerizing piece by composer Zoe Keating.
Classical Kids Music Lessons: 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine'
Explore wooden sounds, steady beat and simple machines in today's at-home music activity, featuring John Adam's 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine.'