This page contains some of the many 'curious' things that children seem to pick up about my subject. All of them are real extracts from children's work, only the names, the grammar and some spellings have been changed. Words in brackets are my comments.
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ozart(These statements were found in Mozart projects by Y8 pupils.)
Salieri went himself one day to look round his (Mozart's) house and he had had seven carrot gold snuff boxes.
The following year his father took him on his first grand of Europe.
He soon overtook his sister on a keyboard (She must have been in a Skoda!)
A couple of years ago, one young person in Y8 was involved in the Mozart projects. She watched the video of Amadeus, was given copious notes and research to do and had Mozart every lesson for about 6 weeks. At the end of that time she produced the most wonderful project on... Noah's Ark!
Mozart composed a lot of music before he died. Some of it he composed after.
Mozart was married to Constanze Weber, who was Andrew Lloyd Webber's sister.
There was a man who claimed he killed Mozart, but he killed himself.
Salieri tried to kill himself three times, and he managed it on the first time.
Adults and children all wore wigs so they didn't have to kill the fleas in their hair.
Mozart composed his first piece of music at the age of four. It was a concert.
Mozart was rude to the empire but the empire was rude back.
The Mozart family were employed by the empire of Salford, who was a vicar in a red coat.
Mozart was very poor when he died, so they buried him in a pope's grave with a lot of other popes.
Nobody knows where Mozart is buried, so they buried him in a hole in the ground.
Constanze lived longer than Mozart so they buried her first.
Mozart's wife had six children. Mozart only had two.
Seleri tried to kill Mozart, but he ended up a vegetable in a madhouse. (This one's quite subtle.)
They (the Mozarts) had some children, but only 2 survived infantry
All the buildings in Salzburg were made out of Baroque
Mozart's boss wore a pink and white frock with hoes
It, (Figaro) was almost banned by the archbishop of Vienna because of taking a fence to the French
In this short project I will attempt to outline his early life when he astonished those he played
At meal times they eat meat such as peasant
In Mozart’s time he did quite a lot of operas and other pieces like The Obduction from the Herring, The Marriage of Figgaro, ..
When Mozart heard the piece of music he sat down and made Salieri’s music better without the notes.
Mozart was a legend and Salieri was his idle.
Constanza leaves with her son to go to the Spar which was paid for by her mother.
Salieri’s father wouldn’t let him be a composer and he often prayed to God to make him a famous composer, and when he choked on a chicken bone he thought it was God helping him!
In 1787 he obtained a minor court post as the Kammermusicus, which gave him a reasonable salary and required nothing beyond the writing of dance for court the balls.
Leopold did not want Mozart to get married… it was just he didn’t want Mozart to ruin his carers.
The reason it was a failure was because when in the performance the emperor yawned and that proved that he was boarded.
Mozart was buried in a pauper’s grave because the graves got mixed around.
Mozart calliopes during a performance of The Magic Flute.
Salieri went back to Mozart and, trying to clear himself from being a suspect said, “Here’s two ducks and there’s another two if you can get it finished in two days.”
He (Mozart) ran into debt that many times that it wasn’t a stranger to him.
Lots of other things have happened in his life as well like him dying at such a young age.
No matter how old Mozart is he will always be a well-known composer because unlike all other composers he has a mind of his own.
From 2006
He wrote 'da clair in de Lune' (Obviously the rap version!)
Mozart's father pushed him and he didn't care what people said. (Not exactly a PC parent, then!)
In 1767, Mozart and his family moved back to Vienna, where he composed his opera 'Buffer'. The opera 'Buffer' was a conical play. (Someone's got their own slant on this one)
Mozart stayed in Vienna and he met Constantine whom he fell in love with. (Aw! How sweet!)
There were many more great composers, they were called boron von swielton... (Just a bit of musical chemistry)
He travelled to Mannheim, where he married Malaysia Weber. (And now geography)
He has a girlfriend called Constanze Weber soon after they had a baby boy. (This boy's obviously got his priorities right)
In 1756 Leopold gave birth to a son. (Remarkable achievement for a man!)
Mozart is a man which of a kind of dirty-minded, laughing, rotten, clever man. Mozart, too sick to write his own compositions out, dictates to Salieri, who would just as soon see Mozart dead but he can't help to know all Mozart's secrets of composting. (This one doesn't think much of our hero)
Hat: Made of felt and has tree corners. (Not the best place to drop your h, Emma)
ounting In(These remarks and the following ones are from children's reports on lessons.)
When you play you have to count. Before you start you have to count in to set it to three. Martin didn't count in, he counted out.
All the group were supposed to count, but Matthew doesn't count. I don't like him.
Sarah counted us in, but we all ignored her.
Our group all counted in together, but no one was listening.
Hayley started it off, Andrew carried it on, James kept it going and Helen finished it off, but then we had to play the music.
The counting went great, but the music went rubbish.
he Reason is...My tune doesn't work very well because I didn't play it.
My variation (on "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star") doesn't work because I played Titanic.
My blues was not blue enough. The notes were too black.
I couldn't play "Au Clair de la Lune" because I kept hitting Alan.
Alison kept hitting on the wrong beat, so we hit her on the right beat.
Conducting is easy if you concentrate. Just don't let your hand get in the way.
ompositionMy composition worked alright until the end when I decomposed it.
I couldn't improvise on the tune, so I made it up as I went along.
My tune was rubbish so Mr. Lyons helped me to make it right. It was still rubbish.
I wanted to make it longer, but Sir and Miss both said it was long enough so I added another 2 bars.
I can't improvise on the blues because I'm too happy.
Mozart wrote over 600 pieces of music before he died. Then he stopped.
Salieri was the most famous composer in Europe until Mozart made him forget.
Salieri wrote over 40 operas, but Mozart wrote 29 which is more.
My bass riffs didn't work because I copied them up wrong.
The bass riffs didn't work because the chords are broken.
hat is ... ?There are four crotchets in a bar. There are two quavers in a crotchet so I know there are eight quivers in a critchet. (sic)
Today we learned how to draw crotchets, quavers and some notes.
Today in our lesson we did polly rhymes (polyrhythms). I had a drum. I only had to play on the first beat of a bar. So I got bored and played on the third beat. Mr. Lyons got cross.
A symphony is a piece of music for an orchestra except when it's an opera because then it's a piece of music for a singer written by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
A piano is a percussion instrument because you hit it with your keys and kick the pedals to get a note.
A piano is a string instrument because you can stroke it.
A violin is a string instrument because it has a horses tail and a cat's guts.
Anything that you hit is a string instrument because violins like that kind of thing.
Silence is very important because it makes a noise.
Silence is very important because it makes you hear the basses. (Very astute child there. 3 merits.)
A riff is a short repeated pattern of nots.
hen is ... ?Mozart was born in 1956. This means he was younger than Mr. Lyons when he died.
Mozart was born in 1756 and died in 1971. He wasn't very old.
Bartok was born in 1881 and died in 1905. He went hungary.
Bartok composed Music for Stings, Pincushion and Celeste.
Joseph wrote Andrew Lloyd Webber's Amazing Technicolor Cream Coat.
Joseph's brothers tried to kill him because he had died in his coat.
The blues were invented in the 1559's because the Negroes were very unhappy about being away from home.
Taken from a GCSE science paper:
Carbon Dioxide has the chemical formula CO2 . Carbon Dioxide is a gas. It is used in fizzy Otherapy
