Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet – Dvorak
This is the eighth installment in the Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet on Dvorak. This Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet covers the G, D and A string notes and is on the Czech composer Antonin Dvorák. You can download the worksheet below for either treble clef or alto clef.
Antonin Dvorak
Why Dvoràk? You will find that several different string methods include themes from Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 9, New World.” And Suzuki students will be playing Dvorak’s “Humoresque” in Book 3. I also think it’s important that students are exposed to how Dvorák took the popular music of the people and incorporated it into his compositions. He never took composition lessons, but did take viola lessons. (Shout out for all those viola students! Dvorák loves the viola!) But his story can help students catch a vision for composition and exploring sounds they hear. Even though they also need to learn the classics and learn to read music, they can also be encouraged to improvise. Learn from the past to help us with the future! Enjoy this new Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet on Dvorák.
Pitches in This Worksheet
This is the last worksheet that will be the same between the two instruments. Our next worksheet will cover the E-string for violin and then the C-string for viola. What makes these Great Composer Note Reading Worksheets unique to string players. First, pianist don’t read in alto clef. So right away, the viola worksheets are unique. The typical treble clef worksheets that you find on Pinterest or other websites are written from a keyboard perspective. While the pitches are the same, when we teach string players to read notation we don’t start with middle C. It would be easy to find a note reading worksheet that covers what piano teachers refer to as “C position” – Middle C, D, E, F and G. By the time piano students learn A, B, C, D and E, they have also advanced to other concepts and skills that strings students haven’t gotten to. You probably won’t find a note reading worksheet that has A, B, C, D and E that doesn’t also include, Middle C up to G. I hope these worksheets provide a resource to help with note reading and teach some music history along the way.
I had trouble finding podcasts and resources for kids on the life of Dvorák, but here are some great recordings. And Classics for Kids has 5 episodes that tell about Dvorak! So be sure and check those out! These are so well done and best of all they are FREE!!!!
2. Composers who visited America
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