Directions: Match each musical passage, symbol, or term with the photo that best describes it. Draw a line connecting your pairs. Click here to download a .pdf of the puzzle solution Musical Matching January Birthdays 8 Compose a four measure melody. Play it demonstrating one of the musical terms or symbols on this page. Ask a friend to choose a picture that looks like what you are playing. Then play your composition a few more times. Demonstrate a different term or symbol each time. Play so well that your friend can always choose the picture you “hear”! February Birthdays You be the teacher: 5 Alfred Brendel (1931) . . . . . . . . . . . Austrian pianist 6 Alexander Scriabin (1872) . . . . . . . Russian composer 27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756) . Austrian composer John Williams (1932) . . . . . . . . . . . . American composer and conductor 21 Carl Czerny (1791) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austrian pianist and composer 23 George Frederic Handel (1685). . . . German-born English composer 1. Find an example in your music books of each of the terms or symbols in the matching puzzle. 2. Click on the links below to view YouTube performances of the following Schubert compositions: “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (art song), sung by Kiri Te Kanawa Piano Sonata in B flat, D. 960, 1st movement, played by Leon Fleisher Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished,” 1st movement “Marche Militaire” for piano four-hands, played by Érdi and Kocsis 3. Look up the red words in Meet the Composers. Tell your teacher two facts you learn about each. Keyboard Kids’ Companion A closer look at Keyboard Kids’ Companion ©Clavier Companion 2012 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2012 Reprint permission granted exclusively for Clavier Companion subscribers and their students Helen Smith Tarchalski, Editor January/February 2012 CLAVIER COMPANION 61