In this lesson, students will examine "serious" choral music written for children's choirs and the composers who write it.
This is the news article which is attached to the resource from the A Chorus for Us lesson plan.
This is REMIX with adding accessibility by headers and organize by numbers.These activities provide students with a way to explore the Christmas Truce of 1914 through multiple media. It lends itself to the exploration of many themes: War, Peace, Kindness, Globalism, Humanity. The discussion questions suggested here focus on the universality of the human experience. Although it uses a picture book as the anchor text, the activities could be used in middle and high school as well. The timing is flexible depending on the use of the discussion questions and how many tasks you choose to do.
These activities provide students with a way to explore the Christmas Truce of 1914 through multiple media. It lends itself to the exploration of many themes: War, Peace, Kindness, Globalism, Humanity. The discussion questions suggested here focus on the universality of the human experience. Although it uses a picture book as the anchor text, the activities could be used in middle and high school as well. The timing is flexible depending on the use of the discussion questions and how many tasks you choose to do.
These activities provide students with a way to explore the Christmas Truce of 1914 through multiple media. It lends itself to the exploration of many themes: War, Peace, Kindness, Globalism, Humanity. The discussion questions suggested here focus on the universality of the human experience. Although it uses a picture book as the anchor text, the activities could be used in middle and high school as well. The timing is flexible depending on the use of the discussion questions and how many tasks you choose to do.
This lesson site gives an overview of circle, or root movement chord progressions. Audio and visual examples are given. Useful for the progressing composition student.
This video provides great step by step instruction on how to form the clarinet embouchure correctly, and gives steps to fix the most common reed, embouchure and sound quality issues.
The second of 3 videos, Michelle Anderson talks about the altissimo range on the clarinet, and give exercises to help work the air, embouchure and sound quality of the instrument.
Students are introduced to Johann Sebastian Bach"™s music through short deep listening exercises and
optional integrated language arts activity.
How does someone who is deaf enjoy music? Can they hear it? Can they make it? Through exploring the life and music of Evelyn Glennie, students will understand that music is sound produced by vibrations. This understanding will allow them to create their own instrument out of objects and compose a musical score for presentation.
Students will work in pairs for a cooperative learning lesson that will drill and practice note names of the treble or bass clef. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #5 of the National Standards for Music: Reading and notating music.
This lesson site introduces the most common usage of basic chord progressions in composition. A must for improvisation students and composition students. Visual and auditory examples are given.
This lesson introduces basic communication skills by asking the following questions: "What does communication mean? What do good communicators do? Selections from Fanfare for the Common Man Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland and Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns will help us define musical terms and discover the answers to our questions.
Students will be able to relate the similarities and differences experienced by orchestra members and students of a first grade class as connected to the idea of the interdependence within a community. They will recognize that as members of a classroom community there are expectations for jobs, behavior, and intrinsic motivation to function to the best of the individual's ability. They will understand that a community within an orchestra has a similar construct to a classroom in that it is led by a conductor and that each person plays an important role within the playing of a piece, practicing their individual part, and colleague support.
Students will create a visual representation of what they think about, or feel from the music of Copland and Stravinsky. After reading books from the series Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers, students will use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast the two composers, their music, and the time period in which they lived.
Students will reinforce skills of comparing and contrasting pieces of music and writing, practice musical vocabulary while listening to, learning about and analyzing the movements of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3.
In this lesson, students are given the opportunity to discover composers such as Tchaikovskyis and Bach throughout the Baroque Era. Students are instructed to reconstruct a music history timeline focusing on a few major composers from each of the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras by way of research and internet exploration.
Students will create five artistic representations illustrating the five movements by Grofe's symphonic composition The Grand Canyon Suite. Students will be able to analyze and form generalizations about the interdependence of the art elements such as: color, texture, form, line, and space. Students will enhance their own emotional and cognitive development as a result of the classical music by translating this experience through creative expression.
Students will be able to demonstrate the following: knowledge of Beethoven's life and music through a letter writing experience, understanding of musical terminology and vocabulary through listening and analysis of several Beethoven listening activities, and knowledge and understanding of how to compose a simple song.
This resource can be used in face to face instruction as a mini activity or it can be used in a distance learning environment as a lesson or self assessment. Student are asked the following questions for each graphic:Identify the letter name of the noteIdentify the kind of noteIdentify the line or space numberPlay the note on a recorder (if available to student).The resource cover notes C4-D5 and has 65 slides with questions and graphics followed by a slide with immediate feedback for the student.