Halloween Music Resources

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Are you looking for Halloween resources and activities to use with your students? If so, read on! Are you looking for fun Resources that still focus on the curriculum?

Halloween is an exciting time filled with colorful costumes and decorations. It is an excellent opportunity to incorporate listening activities and themed resources into our lessons.

Kids love Halloween, so it makes sense to ensure you are stocked up with teaching resources for your music classroom!

So, read on for a list of Halloween-themed resources and activities that will excite and engage your students!

Halloween Music LISTENING Lessons

‘Danse Macabre’ by Saint-Saens

This is a wonderful piece for Halloween. The music tells a story without words of skeletons coming out to dance in the graveyard as the clock strikes midnight.

Check out this YouTube video:

Check out MTR's Danse Macabre Listening worksheets, available in my TpT store. Click the image below to access the resource.

'In the Hall of the Mountain King' by Edvard Grieg

Another excellent listening piece at any time of the year but is a favorite during Halloween.

Key musical concepts and elements in this piece are:

Incidental/Program music: music that helps tell a story or depicts an object or person
Suite: a collection of individual compositions/pieces that belong to the same set or suite
Tone color: the use of specific instruments and playing techniques for a particular mood or atmosphere; pizzicato and arco
Tempo: accelerando, triple meter and duple meter
Structure/form: binary form and the use of repeated bass as a structural tool for compositions

Prepared listening questions sheets with an accompanying answer sheet make this piece a quick, stress-free lesson for Halloween.