Recordings

• Introduction to the String Family – Amazon  |  iTunes
• Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Strings – Amazon
• Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Violins –  iTunes
• Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Violas –  iTunes
• Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Cellos –  iTunes
• Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Double Basses – iTunes
• Dueling Banjos (banjo & acoustic guitar) – Amazon  |  iTunes

Videos

• Orchestral Strings
  • String instruments of the orchestra
  • How To Listen To Music 1: Orchestral String Instruments
  • Vitali – Chaconne [violin solo version] by Stepan Grytsay
  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales: The String Story
  • Intro to the String Family
  • New Violin Family Orchestra – Bach: Air on G String
  • American String Quartet – Ravel: String Quartet in F Major
  • double bass
  • viola
  • violin
• Other Strings
  • stringed instrument
  • acoustic guitar
  • autoharp
  • banjo
  • dulcimer
  • electric guitar

Visuals – These cards can be used different ways. When you play – or name – one of the string instruments, they can hold up which instrument they hear. Students could match the names of the strings with the pictures. I have used these specific cards with a 2nd grade unit on Strings (along with the Word Search and Assessment below.)

Crossword & Word Search

Assessment

   

PowerPoint

Links

• Orchestra resources
• more orchestra visuals
• string family poster – Amazon
• Book: I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello

             

The following content is available below to Plus Members:

• PDF includes:
  • String Family Poster
  • Printable String Instrument Cards
  • Strings Assessment
  • Strings Word Search
  • Strings Crossword
  • Strings Crossword with instrument names
• Digital String Instrument Cards