2016, Term 4 Weeks 1 and 2: Audience Etiquette - how to behave at a concert

 

Over the next few weeks we will be completing assessments, including a few test pieces for portfolio samples. Here's some practice  examples.

Put bar lines in to make 4 beats in each bar.

 

Practising our audience skills. 

Imagine you are at these concerts (follow the links below).  Show  the appropriate audience skills and behaviour for each concert piece.  Remember, sometimes it's the right thing to do to keep very still and quiet until the item is over and the conductor has lowered the baton, and other times the audience is expected to participate or show outbursts of enjoyment or appreciation during the item.  Can you tell the difference? 

Are you meant to keep absolutely still and quiet in this concert item?  I wonder why? 

What happens in this concert? How does the musician respond?  How do the audience respond?  Why do you think the musician responded the way he did? How would you feel if you were in the audience? 

How do the audience respond in this classical piano piece? What's different about this musician?  What were you expecting? Why? What do you notice about the orchestra members?  WHat should a concet pianist look like?

 

What about this concert? There's an orchestra playing classical music, but what is the conductor wanting the audience to do?  How do you know this?  Are there any other gestures the conductor makes to the audience?  What is your opinion of the people filming the concert with their phones?

Watch this very young musician perform Chopin's Minute Waltz. How do the audience respond? Why do you think they waited so long to applaud?

What are the performers encouraging the audience to do in  this performance? How would the performers feel if everyone sat very still and quiet?  How do the audience know what to do?

Here's another very young pianist. How do the audience respond at the end of his item?  How does the performer respond? 


 How do the audience participate in this concert item? How do you think the performer feels?

How do the performers expect the audience to be involved in this item? What would happen if the audience stayed still and quiet? 

Sometimes, the audience gets too noisy and excited and no one can hear the band!  This was especially obvious when The Beatles first started to play concerts in the early 1960s. 

 

This is a very short guide on audience etiquette done by school students. 
 
And if you're still not sure how to behave at an orchestra performance - check out this video for some help.      Or this one. 


What happens when you need to cough during a concert performance? 

When should you applaud at a classical music concert? 

 

 And because someone will ask for it - here's the cat picture for the week.  What can you say about the cats' audience skills? 

Extra: Woody Woodpecker's Barnyard Chopin Concert.  What evidence of audience etiquette can you notice?

Here's a graphic representation of Chopin's Minute Waltz. Op 64 Describe the patterns.  
Here's a graphic representation of Chopin's  Polonaise Op 53 (from the Woody Woodpecker cartoon.) Describe the patterns in this music. 

 

Dances:
I'm Gonna Catch You    (Juniors)
Hot Potato (Juniors) 

We no speak Americano 
Dynamite