Melody Activity Idea

Objective:
The student will compose a Wagner leitmotif of their own designs to better understand the methods used to write Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral.

Materials:
Staff notation paper
Student Worksheets

Activity:
1. Discuss leitmotifs
2. Handout the student worksheet
3. evaluate the motives created by the students

Was the Goal met?
The student's should be able to identify and create leitmotifs that Wagner used when he composed music.

National Standards:
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
- The students will create motives based on triads
5. Reading and notating music.
- The students should be able to identify triads
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
- The students will create leitmotifs, which Wagner used during the Romantic Era