Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet – Martini
Learn about the life of Giovanni Battista Martini in The Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet – Martini. This worksheet helps violin students review staff notes that are on the A and E string. And the worksheet is also available for viola students. They will review the staff notes found in alto clef C and G strings. Students can learn about the composer, Giovanni Martini, who wrote the first piece in Suzuki Book 3, Gavotte. And they will review staff notes. Have your students get to know about the composers of their music with The Great Composer series!
Giovanni Martini was born in Bologna, Italy. He began studying violin with his father. He then went on to study singing and harpsichord at a music school. Martini took orders in the Catholic Church and was known as “Father” or “Padre” Martini. Padre Martini began to compose and was so good at it he opened a school to teach composition. Even Leopold Mozart came to ask Padre Martini about teaching methods and techniques for his young son, Wolfgang Amadeus. He also taught one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons, Johann Christian Bach. Introduce your students to the great composers and reinforce their staff reading.
Martini wrote a music history textbook on ancient music, Storia Della Musica. While the historical part is not necessarily accurate, Martini wrote a musical puzzle at the beginning and end of each chapter. He wrote the puzzles as canons. And the reader had to discern when the other part was to enter and at which interval to begin. Luigi Cherubini another great composer from the Classical/Romanic era is said to have solved all of Martini’s puzzles in this book.
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