Two columns. The left column is an activity. The right column is an appropriate
musical accompaniment specific to that activity.
Try these first, then create your own activities and accompaniments.
(Let me know what you come up with.)
A) B)
Perform Saturday morning light while listening to Ein Heldenleben by
housekeeping chores Richard Strauss, and/or music composed
strictly for the bullfight.
Sit next to an open window while With the volume low, play the Sarabande
it is raining outside (never during from J . S. Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello
an electrical storm). Suite No. 5.
While watching a televised listen to a small string ensemble playing
basketball game, Waltzes by Johann Strauss Jr.
Think about somebody to whom while listening to Luciano Berio’s
you are extremely attracted electronic masterpiece Visage.
Looking for a misplaced shoe? Put on some genuine Theatre Organ Music.
Play at high volume.
When watching a televised play the first movement of Beethoven’s
football game, Symphony No. 8. The sound of the game
should be part of the mix.
Sit next to an open window in Listen to Luciano Berio’s Sequenza No. 3
summer where you can hear for female voice playing in the background.
birds singing.
Basement flooding? Handel’s Water Music (obvious, but effective)
When listening to a baseball game play an old recording of the last movement
on television (with the sound at a of Beethoven’s Septet.
moderately low volume),
While driving to a treasured location play Sousa Marches at high volume.
for a summer vacation,
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