Fireworks Suite by Handel: Lesson Ideas
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The Minuet from Handel's Fireworks Suite features in Grade 1 Piano Exam Pieces in the 2025 & 2026 Piano syllabus.
This resource created by Karen Marshall is designed to be taught over approximately 6 weeks.
Karen Marshall has provided a resource toolkit in the style of her ABRSM Piano Star Skills Builder book. You can find some free sample pages for Karen's book here to download and please visit the ABRSM shop to purchase a copy.
By exploring these activities, you will be incorporating the other elements of the exam into your lessons – sight reading, scales/arpeggios, creativity and aural skills.
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4. Theory Worksheet
Here are some ideas you could make into a worksheet
- Test your pupil's knowledge with isolating notes from the piece, "can you name the following notes? Can you write the following notes?"
- Test their knowledge of note values, you might use flashcards or other resources for this already. The note values that are worth testing to support the learning of this piece are, two quavers, a crotchet, a dotted crotchet, a minim, a dotted minim, and a crotchet rest.
- Consider asking your pupils what the following terms mean; mf, p, f, rit.
- Consider asking your pupils to draw and identify the meaning behind the following; crescendo, decrescendo, slur, accents and ties.
- Asking for an explanation of the time and key signatures is always helpful. Can they write out the key signature for F major, and can they explain what both the key and time signatures indicate?