Tell Me a Story
Listen Up! Music Is a Language
English - October 14, 2013 13:00 - 7 minutes - 8.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsCourses Education Arts Performing Arts artsedge kennedy center nso ypc Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Students learn that composers sometimes use music to “paint” or depict the action, characters, and setting of a story by listening to Mikhail Glinka’s opera, Ruslan and Ludmila. Students also experience how the music inspires creativity when designing their settings and costumes.