Day 16: Air on the G String

Air on the G String by J.S. Bach.

I remember the first time I played this song for one of my general music classes. It was a grade four class, and the curriculum had these animated “listening maps”. This was one of the songs to teach form and would start with different colored balloons on the left side of the screen moving or floating to the music. The typically talkative class was mesmerized by the music and the balloons floating before them. Hoping they were not just intrigued by the cheesey animation, I later played it for them with just the audio and the lights off. It became one of our favorite “calm down” pieces and was requested often by the students.