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 Printable Version for your convenience!
Title - Beethoven's 9th Symphony
By - Susan Haugland
Primary Subject - Music
Secondary Subjects - Music, Language Arts
Grade Level - 6-12
This lesson plan is from my website and is designed to help teachers use my book.
The URL to the website is www.geocities.com/susancsals
(for the teacher's guide - www.geocities.com/susancsals/teachersguide)
Teacher's Guide (grades 7-12)
Three Weeks in Vienna, A Singer's Account of the Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
by Susan L. Haugland
These lesson ideas are designed to accompany the reading of Three Weeks in Vienna - providing students with a further understanding of the time period and events surrounding the premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the music itself, and the composer, Ludwig van Beethoven.
Fact Finding As You Read
Objective: Students will be able to identify specific details regarding four major areas of the story.
Ideas: Students can place answers in chart, outline, or diagram form.
Setting: season, year, place
Characters: soloists, composer, musicians, biographer, others
Problems: location, music, disability, other
Solutions: location, music, disability, other
Click here for NEW reproducible worksheet.
Timeline of Events
Objective: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the sequence of events leading up to and including the premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Ideas: Students can create posters or complete a worksheet in which they order the sequence of events.
Click here for timeline.
Click here for reproducible worksheet.
Click here for vocabulary lists..
Symphony Form
Objective: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental symphonic form and how Beethoven's Ninth Symphony follows or deviates from that form.
Ideas: Students can define vocabulary words relating to symphonic form. Charts can be created by students to visually show the characteristics of sonata-allegro form as well as the other movements.
Click here for a sample chart of sonata-allegro form.
1st Movement: Sonata-Allegro Form
2nd Movement: What was so radical about Beethoven's 2nd movement in the Ninth Symphony? (2nd movements were always the slow movement in a symphony. Beethoven used a scherzo, literally meaning "joke" as his second movement.)
3rd Movement: Slow. Show form.
4th Movement: Recaps first three movements, then develops its own theme. Show form.
Extended Research
- Ideas for further research projects
- Timeline of Beethoven's Life
- Discover why Beethoven was considered a revolutionary as a composer.
- Survey public knowledge of Beethoven's music.
- Discuss the differences that may have occurred had Beethoven lived in our lifetime.
- Compare and contrast the music of Beethoven with that of another composer, or compare and contrast Beethoven's First Symphony with his last
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