15-Minute Music Lesson of Music Inspired by Outer Space

“Fanfare” from Also Sprach Zarathustra 

“Jupiter”

Next, we'll hear a piece by English composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934). From 1914 to 1916, he wrote an entire suite about the 8 planets. Let's listen to “Jupiter,” but feel free to expand today's lesson by listening to the entire suite called The Planets.

Atmosphères

Here is a bonus, if you'd like to try out some modern music. You might only be able to handle a minute or two of it! Listen to Atmosphères by Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006). Ligeti was an avant-garde Hungarian composer.

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Composer Sheet, Listen and Write (Tempo, Mood, Like it?, and Instruments/Voices), and Listen and Draw

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Here are 5 Days of 15-Minute Music Lessons:

1. 15-Minute Music Lesson of Music Inspired by Rivers and Seas
2. 15-Minute Music Lesson on Dvorak and African American Spirituals
3. 15-Minute Music Lesson on Nursery Rhymes
4. 15-Minute Music Lesson on Music Inspired By Shakespeare
5. 15-Minute Music Lesson on Music Inspired by Outer Space

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