{"id":357,"date":"2021-02-22T15:35:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learninggorounds.com\/lessons\/listen-to-the-music\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T19:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:08:20","slug":"listen-to-the-music","status":"publish","type":"mpcs-lesson","link":"https:\/\/learninggorounds.com\/courses\/carnival-of-the-animals\/lessons\/listen-to-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hear the hens steadily pecking, scratching, clucking, and squawking in the repeated staccato notes and the accented grace notes of the piano, violins, and violas. The rooster tries to signal his presence in the trills on the piano.<\/p>

Then the tempo changes. Up walks the strutting rooster, trying to impress the busy hens. They pause only for a moment, then gradually start their hungry pecking and scratching and clucking, little by little growing louder and faster in a frenzied crescendo and accelerando. The poor rooster tries in vain to get their attention \u2014 hear his cries in the clarinet \u2014 only to be drowned out in the hens\u2019 loud cackling.<\/p>

[ crescendo – accelerando – staccato – trill – accent]<\/p>

[ Clarinet, Violin, viola ]<\/p>