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The riff heard ‘round the world,  Beethoven's famous 5th Symphony. Seriously, it is so famous it even got sent into outer space, so that aliens can find it. In this media player you will learn about the famous “da-da-da-DUM” motif in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.

Those four notes and that short-short-short-long pattern sound simple enough, but in Beethoven’s music, they build into a big, majestic theme that people haven’t been able to get out of their heads for two hundred years.

Quietly tap along to the 

beat and rhythm as you listen!

Painting Pictures with Music, Beethoven purposefully painted pictures with his music in the Pastoral Symphony. Think about the nature you have around you, or places you have visited or seen on television-- like the woods, national parks, farm land and other places with trees, birds and rivers. 

As you listen to this music, try to pick out the ways Beethoven created sounds of nature. Can you describe specific images to musical fragments (parts of the music)? For example, there might be musical fragments, or parts, that sound like birds, trees, creeks, sunshine, and other parts of nature. 

Close your eyes and be ready to share 

what pictures the music paints in your mind.