Pinocchio
Preparation for the concert
START
Plan design : Hélène Claise
MENU
Story and characters
Now for music
Operation decoration with the OSM
Story and characters
The story
The characters
Game
Gepetto
Geppetto is a poor Italian woodcarver who was never able to have children of his own. One day, he decides to sculpt a puppet from a piece of wood and names him Pinocchio.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio is the main character in the story. He is a wooden marionette shaped like a child. One night, he wakes up and come alive. He goes on to have many adventures that test his honesty and his courage.
The Blue Fairy
The Blue Fairy grants Geppetto’s wish by bringing Pinocchio, his marionette, to life. She watches over Pinocchio throughout his adventures from the sky, where she takes the form of a star.
The Moralist
As a wooden puppet, it’s difficult to know what important, and what is good or bad. The moralist plays the role of a conscience that tries to guide Pinocchio in his decision-making.
WORD SEARCH
Use the pencil to circle the characters’ names when you find them on the grid.
Pinocchio
Gepetto
Blue
Fairy
Moralist
Solution
The story
Pinocchio in his many forms
Summary of the story
Reflections on the story
Pinocchio in his many forms
The story of Pinocchio has travelled around the world. The story was originally written by Carlo Collodi, an Italian author, and has been translated roughly 240 times into various languages.
There are also many adaptations of the story. The tale has been turned into various illustrated storybooks, comic books, television series, also different staged theatre productions.
Pinocchio in his many forms
The best-known version of the Pinocchio story is probably the Walt Disney cartoon made into an animated film in 1940. In 2022, Walt Disney produced a new version of this famous classic.
The story
This summary of the story of Pinocchio in based on the original version by Carlo Collodi and on the Walt Disney version.
The story
Geppetto carves out a wooden puppet to keep him company. One night, the Blue Fairy whispers some words into his ear and Pinocchio comes to life. He moves and speaks just like a child! Geppetto can hardly believe his eyes and ears! But it’s not easy, being the dad of a puppet. Pinocchio gets into a lot of mischief. He would rather play around than go to school and decides to run away.
The story
Along the road, Pinocchio encounters a cat and a fox. These two robbers want to injure him so they can steal his things. The Blue Fairy intervenes. When she questions Pinocchio to find out what led him to this, he starts making up all kinds of stories. The Blue Fairy doesn’t believe a word of it, but she forgives him and promises to turn him into a real little boy if he returns to school and stops telling lies. But Pinocchio keeps doing as he pleases and carries on with his adventure. With each new lie, his nose grows longer. A bit further on, he meets the sinister Coachman. Pinocchio climbs into his coach and goes with him to the Land of Toys. Geppetto is devastated by the disappearance of his beloved puppet. He sets off on his boat in search of Pinocchio and gets swallowed up by a passing whale.
The story
In the Land of Toys, Pinocchio plays, sleeps, and eats whenever he wants. What joy! At least, for a time … but what Pinocchio does not know yet, is that without realizing it, he is slowly turning into a donkey to be sold and exploited. When Pinocchio figures out what is happening to him, he runs to sea and is swallowed up by the whale. In the animal’s belly, he is reunited with Geppetto. Pinocchio tells Geppetto about his mishaps. Seeing his father is very upset, Pinocchio then becomes aware of the consequences of his decisions.
The story
Pinocchio and Geppetto are eventually freed from the whale’s belly and go back home. Pinocchio apologizes and promises that from now on, he will always do the best he can, even if that takes effort. Happy to see that Pinocchio has gained some wisdom, the Blue Fairy decides to fulfill her promise and turns Pinocchio into a real little boy.
Reflection 3
Reflection 1
Reflection 5
Reflection 2
Reflection 4
About the story of Pinocchio
Operation decoration of the Maison Symphonique
There exists a lot of different adaptations of Pinocchio. There are also a lot of different illustrations of Pinocchio. You can go ahead and draw your own Pinocchio, or colour in our concert’s Pinocchio to help decorate the Maison symphonique!
Illustration by Enrico Mazzanti (1883 edition)
Before March 15, 2023
Send your creation to the following address
Marie-Claude Codsi, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, 1600 St-Urbain Street, Montreal, QC, H2X 0S1 Or by email: mccodsi@osm.ca
Illustration by Geneviève L’Heureux
Now for music
Listening guide
Games
Games
Spot the odd one out
Musical guessing game
Who am I?
Baptiste Joseph Kosma
Click on the words in pink for more information!
Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian-born French composer. Baptiste is a song that Joseph Kosma wrote for the film Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise). In this joyful musical excerpt, you can hear percussion instruments, including the xylophone and castanets.
Listening to this excerpt, can you picture Geppetto being thrilled after discovering that Pinocchio has come alive?
Marche funèbre d'une marionnette by Charles Gounod
Click on the words in pink for more information!
Charles Gounod was a French composer. Originally, he wrote Marche funèbre d’une marionnette (Funeral March of a Marionette) for piano. A short time later, he decided to arrange the piece so it could be played by an orchestra. In this musical excerpt, you can hear the clarinet playing the melody solo. The clarinet is a wind instrument belonging to the woodwinds family.
Listening to this excerpt, can you picture Pinocchio getting up to walk for the first time?
Jeux d'enfants opus 22 Georges Bizet
Click on the words in pink for more information!
George Bizet was a French composer. He composed a suite of 12 pieces for piano four hands called Jeux d’enfants (Children’s Games), op. 22. We call it “piano four hands” when two pianists play on the same piano. Listen to the piece La toupie (The Spinning Top). Imagine it spinning at full speed, like those pianists’ fingers moving around the keyboard. In the musical excerpt from La Marche (March) that you will hear at the concert, the trumpet plays solo at times. The trumpet is a wind instrument from the brass family.
Listening to this excerpt, can you picture Geppetto pulling Pinocchio by the hand because Pinocchio won’t stop playing and go to school?
Claude Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande, Act I: “Interlude”
Click on the words in pink for more information!
Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera by French composer Claude Debussy. In this musical excerpt, we hear the family of bowed strings: violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. Those are the four traditional instruments of this family. There is also a fifth, the lowest of all the bowed strings. It is a very rare instrument called the octobass. There are very few of them in the world and we are fortunate to have three at the Maison symphonique de Montréal.
Listening to this excerpt, can you picture the whale as it swims?
Click on the odd one out
Harp
Xylophone
Castanets
Click on the odd one out
Cello
Harp
Violin
Clarinet
Click on the odd one out
Flute
Trumpet
Click on the odd one out
Tuba
Saxophone
Trombone
Clue 2
Clue 4
Clue 3
Clue 1
Who am I?
Answer
The conductor
You will be hearing different versions of When You Wish Upon a Star. See if you can recognize what family of instruments is playing and click on the right one. This song was composed by par Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for the Disney film Pinocchio in 1940.
Which instrument or which family of instruments do you hear?
percussion
strings
brass
woodwinds
Which instrument or which family of instruments do you hear?
percussion
strings
brass
woodwinds
Which instrument or which family of instruments do you hear?
percussion
strings
brass
woodwinds
Which instrument or which family of instruments do you hear?
percussion
strings
brass
woodwinds
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Transcript
Pinocchio
Preparation for the concert
START
Plan design : Hélène Claise
MENU
Story and characters
Now for music
Operation decoration with the OSM
Story and characters
The story
The characters
Game
Gepetto
Geppetto is a poor Italian woodcarver who was never able to have children of his own. One day, he decides to sculpt a puppet from a piece of wood and names him Pinocchio.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio is the main character in the story. He is a wooden marionette shaped like a child. One night, he wakes up and come alive. He goes on to have many adventures that test his honesty and his courage.
The Blue Fairy
The Blue Fairy grants Geppetto’s wish by bringing Pinocchio, his marionette, to life. She watches over Pinocchio throughout his adventures from the sky, where she takes the form of a star.
The Moralist
As a wooden puppet, it’s difficult to know what important, and what is good or bad. The moralist plays the role of a conscience that tries to guide Pinocchio in his decision-making.
WORD SEARCH
Use the pencil to circle the characters’ names when you find them on the grid.
Pinocchio
Gepetto
Blue
Fairy
Moralist
Solution
The story
Pinocchio in his many forms
Summary of the story
Reflections on the story
Pinocchio in his many forms
The story of Pinocchio has travelled around the world. The story was originally written by Carlo Collodi, an Italian author, and has been translated roughly 240 times into various languages.
There are also many adaptations of the story. The tale has been turned into various illustrated storybooks, comic books, television series, also different staged theatre productions.
Pinocchio in his many forms
The best-known version of the Pinocchio story is probably the Walt Disney cartoon made into an animated film in 1940. In 2022, Walt Disney produced a new version of this famous classic.
The story
This summary of the story of Pinocchio in based on the original version by Carlo Collodi and on the Walt Disney version.
The story
Geppetto carves out a wooden puppet to keep him company. One night, the Blue Fairy whispers some words into his ear and Pinocchio comes to life. He moves and speaks just like a child! Geppetto can hardly believe his eyes and ears! But it’s not easy, being the dad of a puppet. Pinocchio gets into a lot of mischief. He would rather play around than go to school and decides to run away.
The story
Along the road, Pinocchio encounters a cat and a fox. These two robbers want to injure him so they can steal his things. The Blue Fairy intervenes. When she questions Pinocchio to find out what led him to this, he starts making up all kinds of stories. The Blue Fairy doesn’t believe a word of it, but she forgives him and promises to turn him into a real little boy if he returns to school and stops telling lies. But Pinocchio keeps doing as he pleases and carries on with his adventure. With each new lie, his nose grows longer. A bit further on, he meets the sinister Coachman. Pinocchio climbs into his coach and goes with him to the Land of Toys. Geppetto is devastated by the disappearance of his beloved puppet. He sets off on his boat in search of Pinocchio and gets swallowed up by a passing whale.
The story
In the Land of Toys, Pinocchio plays, sleeps, and eats whenever he wants. What joy! At least, for a time … but what Pinocchio does not know yet, is that without realizing it, he is slowly turning into a donkey to be sold and exploited. When Pinocchio figures out what is happening to him, he runs to sea and is swallowed up by the whale. In the animal’s belly, he is reunited with Geppetto. Pinocchio tells Geppetto about his mishaps. Seeing his father is very upset, Pinocchio then becomes aware of the consequences of his decisions.
The story
Pinocchio and Geppetto are eventually freed from the whale’s belly and go back home. Pinocchio apologizes and promises that from now on, he will always do the best he can, even if that takes effort. Happy to see that Pinocchio has gained some wisdom, the Blue Fairy decides to fulfill her promise and turns Pinocchio into a real little boy.
Reflection 3
Reflection 1
Reflection 5
Reflection 2
Reflection 4
About the story of Pinocchio
Operation decoration of the Maison Symphonique
There exists a lot of different adaptations of Pinocchio. There are also a lot of different illustrations of Pinocchio. You can go ahead and draw your own Pinocchio, or colour in our concert’s Pinocchio to help decorate the Maison symphonique!
Illustration by Enrico Mazzanti (1883 edition)
Before March 15, 2023
Send your creation to the following address
Marie-Claude Codsi, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, 1600 St-Urbain Street, Montreal, QC, H2X 0S1 Or by email: mccodsi@osm.ca
Illustration by Geneviève L’Heureux
Now for music
Listening guide
Games
Games
Spot the odd one out
Musical guessing game
Who am I?
Baptiste Joseph Kosma
Click on the words in pink for more information!
Joseph Kosma was a Hungarian-born French composer. Baptiste is a song that Joseph Kosma wrote for the film Les enfants du paradis (Children of Paradise). In this joyful musical excerpt, you can hear percussion instruments, including the xylophone and castanets.
Listening to this excerpt, can you picture Geppetto being thrilled after discovering that Pinocchio has come alive?
Marche funèbre d'une marionnette by Charles Gounod
Click on the words in pink for more information!
Charles Gounod was a French composer. Originally, he wrote Marche funèbre d’une marionnette (Funeral March of a Marionette) for piano. A short time later, he decided to arrange the piece so it could be played by an orchestra. In this musical excerpt, you can hear the clarinet playing the melody solo. The clarinet is a wind instrument belonging to the woodwinds family.
Listening to this excerpt, can you picture Pinocchio getting up to walk for the first time?
Jeux d'enfants opus 22 Georges Bizet
Click on the words in pink for more information!
George Bizet was a French composer. He composed a suite of 12 pieces for piano four hands called Jeux d’enfants (Children’s Games), op. 22. We call it “piano four hands” when two pianists play on the same piano. Listen to the piece La toupie (The Spinning Top). Imagine it spinning at full speed, like those pianists’ fingers moving around the keyboard. In the musical excerpt from La Marche (March) that you will hear at the concert, the trumpet plays solo at times. The trumpet is a wind instrument from the brass family.
Listening to this excerpt, can you picture Geppetto pulling Pinocchio by the hand because Pinocchio won’t stop playing and go to school?
Claude Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande, Act I: “Interlude”
Click on the words in pink for more information!
Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera by French composer Claude Debussy. In this musical excerpt, we hear the family of bowed strings: violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. Those are the four traditional instruments of this family. There is also a fifth, the lowest of all the bowed strings. It is a very rare instrument called the octobass. There are very few of them in the world and we are fortunate to have three at the Maison symphonique de Montréal.
Listening to this excerpt, can you picture the whale as it swims?
Click on the odd one out
Harp
Xylophone
Castanets
Click on the odd one out
Cello
Harp
Violin
Clarinet
Click on the odd one out
Flute
Trumpet
Click on the odd one out
Tuba
Saxophone
Trombone
Clue 2
Clue 4
Clue 3
Clue 1
Who am I?
Answer
The conductor
You will be hearing different versions of When You Wish Upon a Star. See if you can recognize what family of instruments is playing and click on the right one. This song was composed by par Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for the Disney film Pinocchio in 1940.
Which instrument or which family of instruments do you hear?
percussion
strings
brass
woodwinds
Which instrument or which family of instruments do you hear?
percussion
strings
brass
woodwinds
Which instrument or which family of instruments do you hear?
percussion
strings
brass
woodwinds
Which instrument or which family of instruments do you hear?
percussion
strings
brass
woodwinds