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Summary and Objective
Students will view and study musical instruments from the digital collection. Students will understand the type of instruments played during this time, how these instruments sounded, and who would have learned to play the instruments. Students will also understand when and where these instruments were played, and heard, by other people. Students will understand how the instruments compare to our modern ones. Students will discuss how examining any one artifact, or a specific group of artifacts, can provide a great deal of information about the people and their lifestyle.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
Students will view five artifacts from the digital collection. Working in pairs, students will study pictures and information to try to answer the following questions. How were these instruments made? What materials were necessary to make them? Who would have crafted these instruments? Where would the materials be found? How available would these instruments have been?
Step 2.
Using prior knowledge and links to other sights, students will attempt to hear the sounds of these instruments. How does a stringed instrument sound? A reed instrument? A keyboard? What modern instruments do we know that would have similar sounds? The entire class will listen to examples of each type of music.
Step 3.
Again in pairs, students would speculate on who would play these instruments. What occasions would call for this type of music? Would these instruments be played strictly for entertainment, or would there be religious or political reasons for the music? What might each instrument say about the social standing of the musician? Photographs of people playing a variety of instruments can be found in the digital collection. Students will learn more by examining these pictures.
Step 4.
Whole class learning would bring together all of the information gathered by pairs of students. Students will understand more about the musical instruments of time and what those instruments can teach us about the lives and customs of the people of the same era.
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