This is a fun and creative way to explore the 12 Days ...
This is a fun and creative way to explore the 12 Days of Christmas. This lesson reinforces numerical order, repetition within a song, and group effort. It's also very cute to see the creative ways the students “become†the 12 Days of Christmas. Composition with instruments is also involved.
Understanding that musical themes are the same even if they are played ...
Understanding that musical themes are the same even if they are played in different styles can help students understand that numbers maintain their same value even if they appear in different forms.
Students will learn about sound and how sound moves. Students then work ...
Students will learn about sound and how sound moves. Students then work together to make an instrument (a kazoo) to make sound and perform a piece of music "William Tell Overshirt" using their kazoo.
This integrated lesson, focusing on United States History, incorporates learning about the ...
This integrated lesson, focusing on United States History, incorporates learning about the Wild West and the western outlaw Billy the Kid through the music of Aaron Copland. The lesson provides musical reflection and each movement of Copland’s ballet Billy the Kid work and opportunity to experience deep listening for the elements of Dynamics, Articulation, Rhythm and Tempo (DART).
Students learn how classical music and art combine to make an exciting ...
Students learn how classical music and art combine to make an exciting tool for creative write and art expression. Students will develop the skill to write more expressively using descriptive words and phrases such as adjectives, adverbs, metaphors, and similes in order to make their writing come alive, and be more visual and engaging.
Students will listen to Copland's Appalachian Spring while listening to a reading ...
Students will listen to Copland's Appalachian Spring while listening to a reading of Heartland by Diane Siebert. They will then write their own poems and create accompanying artwork.
This lesson will contrast Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (classical) and Stephane Furic's ...
This lesson will contrast Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (classical) and Stephane Furic's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (jazz), and the role the poems Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Bridge by Hart Crane, bring to the music.
Students will use the San Francisco Symphony's Kids website to choose music ...
Students will use the San Francisco Symphony's Kids website to choose music that supports the events and people associated with the history of Oklahoma, such as Native Americans explorers and exploration; Civil War; Trail of Tears; Land Run; and farmers, and ranchers. Students will write two or three sentences to explain and support their selection of music. In small groups, students will create a statue or tableau depicting one of the events. Students will perform a tableau for the class with their musical selection as a background.
Students will discover how the love of music connected two important figures ...
Students will discover how the love of music connected two important figures in world history: Benjamin Franklin, an American founding father, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an Austrian composer. Additionally, students will begin to understand pitch, and how each note is calibrated to create its own unique sound.
This lesson site moves into more advanced seventh chords, their construction and ...
This lesson site moves into more advanced seventh chords, their construction and inversions. Audio and visual examples are given to reinforce instruction.
Students will discover the differences in musical tempo between fast and slow. ...
Students will discover the differences in musical tempo between fast and slow. Students will learn to use the correct musical terms to describe the tempo of each piece. Students will use streamers and their bodies to show at what tempo each piece is played.
Students will discover how to read music notes in the treble clef ...
Students will discover how to read music notes in the treble clef and then will learn to perform simple songs on xylophones, through reading the story Freddy the Frog and the Thump in the Night by Sharon Burch.
In this unit of instruction, students will develop an appreciation for the ...
In this unit of instruction, students will develop an appreciation for the role of music in the social societies of the Kpelle people in Liberia, the Tuareg people from the Sahara, and the Anlo-Ewe people from Ghana through listening examples, storytelling, reenactments, and instrument making.
Students will assign an orchestral instrument to an African animal, using characteristics ...
Students will assign an orchestral instrument to an African animal, using characteristics which they have in common. The students will write a cinquain poem and create a poster (collage) with their African animal as the theme.
This presentation goes through the following notes and rests:whole note and resthalf ...
This presentation goes through the following notes and rests:whole note and resthalf note and restquarter note and restbeamed eighth noteThe assessment at the end is identifying each note and rest and the number of counts each receives.
This presentation goes through the following notes and rests:whole note and resthalf ...
This presentation goes through the following notes and rests:whole note and resthalf note and restquarter note and restbeamed eighth noteThe assessment at the end is identifying each note and rest and the number of counts each receives.
In this activity, students will connect the idea behind a choral piece ...
In this activity, students will connect the idea behind a choral piece - change - with its musical characteristics, using appropriate musical terminology such as rhythm, tempo, and dynamics. They will then work in groups to create short pieces that express similar feelings.
This unit affords teachers with opportunities to lead children in active singing ...
This unit affords teachers with opportunities to lead children in active singing games and dances from Quebec, Canada. These lessons will offer young singers and players an opportunity to listen to, discuss, sing, play games, and create.
Students will be able to compare and contrast two songs from the ...
Students will be able to compare and contrast two songs from the Civil War. Through a storyboard, students will be able to read and write information from different research sources to support their findings.
Students will learn to recognize a five-tone scale. Students will sing or ...
Students will learn to recognize a five-tone scale. Students will sing or perform known American folksongs together in class. Advanced students will be able to identify all five pitches and even discern the actual pentatonic scale being used.
Arcade type game that has students press specific letter keys on the ...
Arcade type game that has students press specific letter keys on the keyboard to play songs. The game requires students to hold down the letter key for the correct number of beats, or length of the bar, thus training them to keep a steady beat when playing. If pitches move by step, letters are adjacent. Pitches that have larger intervals are further apart. There is a free play option where students can create their own melodies which would be great for improvisation.
This is a demonstration analysis of an excerpt of "Auld Lang Syne", ...
This is a demonstration analysis of an excerpt of "Auld Lang Syne", breaking down chords and their progressions along the way. Visual and auditory examples are given. Extremely useful for advancing composition students and theory students.
This lesson site gives a breakdown analysis of an excerpt of "O ...
This lesson site gives a breakdown analysis of an excerpt of "O Canada". This is a great visual and auditory example of how analysis is performed in music theory. Great for intermediate composition students and theorists.
I have used this project as a summative assessment at the end ...
I have used this project as a summative assessment at the end of the school year for many years across two grade levels (6th and 8th). It has taken multiple formats as my students choose the medium that they utilize.
This is an easy interactive resource that allows students to choose between ...
This is an easy interactive resource that allows students to choose between 2 scenes, and then choose sound effects to accompany the short movie. With several options to choose from for each small clip, this proves a great lesson on how different sounds can change the meaning of a scene.
Students will generate descriptive language of several animals (with special focus on ...
Students will generate descriptive language of several animals (with special focus on verbs), culminating in the writing of a poem about the animal of their choice. Use Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals as a stimulus prompt.
In this series of lessons students will become familiar with the composer ...
In this series of lessons students will become familiar with the composer Antonin Dvorak and his Ninth Symphony From The New World. Students will learn about the significance of Dvorak in America during the 1890s and will use creative skills to compose melodies based on familiar folk tunes, increasing understanding of nationalism in music.
Students will learn about Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, his mannerist style, and ...
Students will learn about Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo, his mannerist style, and his four paintings named after the four seasons. Students will learn about the food groups and the four seasons. Students will learn about Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi and his compositions named after the four seasons.
This fantastic case study breaks down articulation markings and types for brass ...
This fantastic case study breaks down articulation markings and types for brass instruments, and how they should be played according to some of the best brass players in the modern age. Very valuable information for advancing brass students.
In this activity, students will read about Aztec instruments and drum rhythms. ...
In this activity, students will read about Aztec instruments and drum rhythms. They will be able to view simple rhythms and listen to them presented in context of native instruments. In addition, tye rhythms are presented clearly enough fir students to chant or play along. Extension activities allow students to utilize the information on the drum syllables to compose their own parts for and Aztec drum group. The rhythms are also presented using pieces of fraction pies to better understand the fraction relations to note values.
This music lesson plan allows students to closely examine chamber music as ...
This music lesson plan allows students to closely examine chamber music as it has changed from the Middle Ages to today. Students will work in small groups to research the composers, instruments and typical presentation of chamber music in five distinct time periods, and then individually write biographies of composers from their assigned era. Each group will create an interesting and informative display of their epoch and biographies, which they will present in a future class.
Students will recognize that American music is diverse as it relates to ...
Students will recognize that American music is diverse as it relates to culture, history and style. Students may also work with digital media to accompany their performance piece.
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