Study the musical selection for one week.
Over the week:
Music lessons over the next two years group musical instruments into five major categories: strings, keyboards, percussion, brass, and woodwinds.
Percussion instruments include instruments played by striking with the hand or with a handheld or pedal-operated stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles.
Examine the images of percussion instruments below.
Activity 1: Study the Parts of a Cymbal
Activity 2: Can You Find It?
Study the lesson painting, 'Fanfare - Serenade,' by Stanisław Lentz, and find the following:
Activity 3: Parade to the Music
Activity 4: Hear a Cymbal Roll
Listen to the sound of mallets striking a cymbal in a fast roll.