Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Student Practice

Objective: Students will enhance their understanding of the pipe organ’s ability to reflect various instruments and instrumental colors.

Activity: The teacher will first play an excerpt from an orchestral recording of Vivaldi’s “Concerto in a minor” for two violins. Students should write down any orchestral instruments or recurring themes/melodies they hear. Then, the teacher should play a corresponding excerpt from a pipe organ recording of Bach’s transcription of Vivaldi’s “Concerto in a minor” (BWV 593). Students should listen to see if they can identify various pipe organ stops/sounds and they should also try to see how Bach transcribes the orchestral setting to suit the various colors of the pipe organ.

Assessment: Can students recognize various stops from the recording? Are the students able to identify the organ stop that was used in place of the violins?