Women in Music
Colouring in sheets that represents women in music and the arts!
As a celebration of Women in music, I was researching ways to teach and draw attention to some of the stars that inspire us.
As I teach some younger students and run a choir club, I often include games and colouring in pages to help us learn the instruments of the orchestra while listening to them play, and other activities that make learning fun and varied.
It was clear in my research that finding pictures of girls and women playing instruments or in an orchestra were more difficult to find, there are fewer representations online, so I got out my ipad and made my own!
These pictures are hand drawn, representing different instruments and stars of now and the recent past to inspire your students to explore different musicians. They are suitable for any child or adult to enjoy colouring, with crayon or pencil. The link will take you to Google Drive where you can download the images.
The musicians I have featured are: saxophonist Jess Gillam, opera singer Leontyne Price, pianist Martha Argerich, and cellist Jacqueline Du Pré. If you search for these musicians on Spotify or your prefered streaming service, you can enjoy listening to them perform while you colour in.
These pages are free to download, and I hope they help your students, clubs, classes or home-ed groups to celebrate some women who have trained and worked hard to deliver some beautiful music for us to enjoy! If you wish to support me and help me to continue offering free resources, you can donate to my “Buy Me a Coffee” using the link below. Thank you for your support, and I hope you enjoy using this resource.
autumn
Sink into autumn with my listening playlist, full of autumn inspired music from the world of classical music.
What’s your favourite season? I know a lot of people would say autumn (or ‘fall’ in the US). Would it surprise you to I love every season and the changes between them?… sad to see the previous season go, and to welcome the return of the new season like an old friend.
There are many depictions of the seasons in art and music, so I thought I would add a few here and link it to a youtube playlist for you to explore more.
Feel free to add your favourite pieces in the comments section below if I’ve missed something out! You’ll see I’ve included a range of instruments/emsembles/styles/periods and I hope a few that you enjoy exploring for the first time as I have.
1 Chant d’automne, Faure
Sung by soprano Mary Bevan, accompanied by Joseph Middleton
2 Four Seasons, Autumn, 3rd Movement Allegro, Vivaldi
Played by Voices of Music, with solo baroque violin from Carla Moore
3 ‘October - Autumn Song’ from The Seasons, Tchaikovsky
Solo piano Olga Scheps
4 ‘Now the Leaves are Falling Fast’, from On This Island, Benjamin Britten
Sung by Peter Pears, Accompanied by Benjamin Britten
5 ‘September’ from Das Jahr, Fanny Hensel (Fanny Mendelssohn)
Solo piano Diana Sahakyan
6 ‘The Fall of the Leaf’, Imogen Holst
Solo cello Amily Airhart
7 ‘September’ from Vier Letzte Lieder, Richard Strauss
Sung by Renee Fleming, at the Proms, in 2001
8 The Seasons: 1. Autumn, Thea Musgrave
Solo clarinet Concerto played by Victoria Soames Samek, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conducted by Thea Musgrave
9 Pensee D’automne, Massenet
Sung by Huguette Tourangeau, Accompanied by Richard Bonynge
10 Autumn Gardens, Einojuhani Rautavaara
Played by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy
Classical music to chill, spook, and haunt!