Peter and the Wolf — OSM
The Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal created a great resource for learning about instruments and how archetypes are used in music.
“Peter and the Wolf is a story told in words and music – a musical fairy tale. The narrator tells the story in words as the orchestra tells the story in music. An instrument or group of instruments and a musical theme represents each character in the story. The musical theme tells us something of the personality of the character, and the emotion the character is feeling. In the case of the animal characters in Peter and the Wolf, this is called ‘personification’: attributing human characteristics to a non-human character.”