The String Family of Instruments
Click on the instrument to learn more
about it...
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Sounds Abounds! Click here to
test out your String Family instrument identification knowledge!
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(Please click here for the above video, no YouTube...)
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Activity Sheets:
Assessment
sheet: Name the instruments, parts, facts
The String
Family - blank for colouring/ cartooning
Music to our
Ears -
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
The Violin
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An introduction to the Violin...
(Click here for the above video, no YouTube)
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Violin in a different way...
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Activity Sheets:
Label the Violin/
Viola - differing levels of challenge!
Draw a Violin - step by
step drawing the instrument bit by bit
How Many Violins? -
Early Years/ Y1/ Y2 activity. Find the instrument, write the name
Complete the missing
violin parts. Drawing sheet
Violin and Lilllies
Colouring sheet
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The Viola
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An Introduction to the Viola...
Viola in a different way...
Ed
Sheeran Perfect - original
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How much is this viola?!
Full story here on the New York Times website...
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Activity Sheets:
Colour the Viola/
Violin: what it says on the tin
Draw yourself
playing the viola (KS1 activity)
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The Cello
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The Cello...
Jacqueline du Pre 1967 recording...epic!
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The Swan by Camille Saint-Saens played by Yo-Yo Ma
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without YouTube...)
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The '2Cellos' performing slightly differently...!
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here to watch this video without YouTube...)
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This is a very famous piece for the cello...but which animal do
you think it is describing? Click on the animal to find out if
you're correct! |
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Activity Sheets:
Colour
the Cellos: Early Years/ Y1/ Y2 activity
Draw you
playing the cello!
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The Double Bass
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This is a very famous piece for the Double Bass...but which
animal do you think it is describing? Click on the animal and
check if you're correct! |
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Activity Sheets:
Colour the
Double Bass
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The Double Bass - an introduction.
(Click here to watch the above video without YouTube)
Camillle Saint Saens - The Elephant from Carnival of the Animals
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here to watch the above video without YouTube)
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(Click here for something very special played on a Double Bass!)