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| Haydn loved playing tricks and jokes on people - including his audiences. |
Dances - Juniors:
Lullaby Time
Freeze Game
Hold Still
Feeling Good
Dynamite
Hot Potato
Sid Shuffle
We no Speak Americano
Intermediates - Brooklyn Hustle from Saturday Night Fever) Note: This is not a mirror image dance - the instructor's left and right moves need to be your left and right moves. Take care that you check each movement out for this.) Teach yourself to do this dance by following the instructor. Work with a partner or a small group.
Songs - Juniors:
Baby Shark song
Watch out all you two legged mice
Wonky Donkey (Lyrics only)
Seniors:
Rose, Rose (piano backing only)
Rose, Rose (Sung as a round)
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| Add bar lines to make 5 bars with 4 beats in each bar. |
Here's another version of Hayden's Surprise symphony. What do you think the audience were expecting?
"Haydn Seek" Quiz:
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| Scroll down to the end of this post to find the answers. |
Skip to 10:00 to watch the last few seconds of the second movement before the beginning of the Allegro (3rd movement). Notice that the audience do not applaud between movements - they wait until the very end of the entire concerto.
Look and listen for:
- how does the conductor know when to start the last movement?
- what does the trumpeter do at the end of the second movement before she starts to play again?
- how does the conductor indicate the dynamics (volume)in this piece of music?
- examples of pianissimo, piano and forte, fortissimo, crescendo and decrescendo.
- examples of sudden and gradual changes in dynamics
- what happens at the end of the performance? Watch very carefully to see what you can notice that you learnt about last week.
Vocabulary:
concerto: piece of music in three parts - called movements.
movement: one part of a larger or longer pice of music
allegro: a word to describe the tempo of a piece of music to be played quickly, lively and cheerfully
finale: the final piece of music in a longer composition, or the last item in a concert.
You can watch this video from the beginning - or skip to 10:30 possibly the most well-known part of Hayden's Trumpet Concerto: the third movement finale, also called the Allegro.
A concerto is a piece of music usually in three movements where one instrument (usually) plays with an orchestra accompanying them in support. (Think of Tom and Jerry's Cat Concerto cartoon where the cat plays the piano and the orchestra plays in the background.)
And just for fun - and the relievers in our music classes on Friday:
(1) Here is Danny Kaye telling the story of the Little Fiddle.
- Listen for the way he describes the instruments: fiddle (What is another name for the fiddle?), French horn, trumpet, glockenspiel, kettle drum
(2) A cute little short movie from Pixar - about how to cope with things going badly. Notice how the narrator tells the story in time with the music.
Answers to Haydn Seek Quiz
- He died 31st May 1809 in Vienna, Austria.
- He started singing in a cathedral choir when he was just 5 years old.
- He left the choir when he was 16, after his voice broke and he no longer had a good voice.
- He cut the pigtail off a fellow chorister and was caned in public as punishment.
- He is considered to be one of the greatest classical composers.
- He is sometimes known by the nickname "Papa Haydn".
- He taught Beethoven for a short time.
- He became very rich and famous in his own life time, unlike Mozart.
- He liked playing tricks and pranks on people - like in the Surprise Symphony.
- He was quite ugly and couldn't understand why so many attractive women liked him.
- His younger brother Michael Hayden (1737 - 1806) is also a well-known composer.
- Mozart and Haydn each thought the other was an exceptional composer.
- He has been reburied several times - the latest in 1954.
- After he was first buried, his head was stolen, and it wasn't reunited with the rest of his body until its final reburial in 1954.
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