Classic FM's Big Book of Classical Music: 1000 years of music in 366 days by Darren Henley, Sam Jackson & Tim Lihoreau

From the birth of Chopin on 22nd February, to the premiere of the Eroica Symphony on April 7th and the death of Mozart on December 5th, every day reveals a fascinating new musical milestone - the perfect excuse to sit back, relax, and listen to your favourite classical music.

Lives of the Musicians: Good times, Bad times (and what the neighbours thought), by Kathleen Krull

It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people - and other famous musicians - really like? What did they eat? And what did their neighbors think? Discover the fascinating stories of twenty famous musicians.

Listen to an album of your choice and write a one page review of it .

Choose one of the works featured in the BBC 10 pieces to listen to and research and create a fact sheet on it.

Watch the excerpt from Howard Goodall's 'Story of Music' series on the invention of musical notation.

Research a selection of different orchestral musical instruments.

Find out which instruments belong to which family and why.

Can you find some unusual musical instruments?

Attend a concert, show or live performance.

Find some examples of riffs in pop and rock music and challenge yourself to learn to play them on the keyboard, guitar or bass .

Teach somebody else an instrumental skill.

For example, how to play the ukulele or the piano