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Bow, Wow, Wow (Rounds)
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Students will demonstrate an understanding of a round. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #1 of the National Standards for Music: Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Making Music Fun
Author:
The Lesson Zone
Date Added:
02/26/2019
By the Great Horn Spoon!
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Students will complete two language arts activities for this lesson. In the first activity, students use folk
songs from the era of the California Gold Rush, which are introduced in the early chapters of By the Great
Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleishman, to identify folk song motifs in the classical music of Antonín Dvořák. This
will be explored by the students' creation of a labeled line drawing of one of Dvořák 's compositions. In the second activity, students will write a letter to Dvořák from the point of view of Master Jack, a character in Fleishman"™s novel, inviting Dvořák to continue his American tour into the gold fields of California for
musical inspiration.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Carolyn Roberts
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Can You Hear a Story
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Students will explore creating moods with music. Students will assimilate this new knowledge through the analysis of a story and the creation of a musical composition that reflects and enhances it. This activity will culminate with the recording of their musical accompaniment and story to produce a book on tape.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
PBS
Author:
Tara Hofman
Date Added:
02/26/2019
A Carnival of Animals and Children
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This lesson is designed to teach positional, directional and spatial skills, social skills, large motor skills, creative skills, and oral vocabulary using the "Aquarium" movement from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint- Saëns. The lesson is designed specifically to teach early childhood developmentally delayed students but can the challenge can easily be increased to make it appropriate for older grades or ELL classes.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Kathy Davis
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Cartooning Stravinsky
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With a little help by Stravinsky, students understand music evokes mood, emotion
and feeling. In the process, students develop critical listening and thinking skills, and illustrate through
cartooning what they believe is expressed in selections of Rite of Spring.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Denise Stover
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Chansons Françaises
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This collection of classic French songs represents Francophone music across decades and countries. Some entries include videos of live performances. Each entry includes complete lyrics, song notes, and exercises made available via a downloadable pdf file.

Subject:
French
World Languages
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
The University of Texas at Austin
Date Added:
02/26/2019
The Chemistry of Fireworks
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Students will listen to Music for the Royal Fireworks by George Frideric Handel (commissioned to celebrate the signed Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749) and design a virtual fireworks display to accompany the music. Students will learn that the specific colors in a firework display are created when atoms of a particular element or a combination of elements are energized by the firework's heat. They will learn that the shape of the firework display is determined by the shape and structure of one particular component inside the firework shell. They will discover that each component of a firework has a role in the timing, sound, and visual display that make up a firework, and how to coordinate the fireworks display with a musical tract.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Jana Jean
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Chips and Salsa: A Taste of  Mariachi Music for the High School Orchestra
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Students will engage with the mariachi music of Mexico through discussing audio and video clips, listening to individual instruments within the ensemble and imitating them by ear, and through playing an arranged mariachi piece. Extensions can lead to analysis of formal elements within the music, further study of the culture from which this music originates, or contact with culture-bearing mariachi musicians.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Smithsonian Institution
Author:
Elizabeth J. Knighton
Date Added:
06/24/2019
Chops and Axes- A Jazz Talkshow
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Students will explore the lives of various jazz musicians. They will become familiar with the social and historical events that were present during the lives of these individuals. They will listen to the music of the artists and become knowledgeable about their styles. This activity will culminate in the production of a news/talk show created and performed by the students highlighting the lives of these musical figures.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Unit of Study
Provider:
PBS
Author:
Heidi Lang
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Circle Progressions
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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.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Interactive
Provider:
musictheory.net
Author:
Ricci Adams
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Clarinet Embouchure and Sound
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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.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
Michelle Anderson
Author:
Michelle Anderson
Date Added:
02/26/2019
"Cmon- Feel the Noise!
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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.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
San Francisco Symphony
Author:
Heidi Doyle
Date Added:
02/26/2019
CodeMaker! (Note Names)
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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.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Making Music Fun
Author:
The Lesson Zone
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Common Chord Progressions
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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.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson
Provider:
musictheory.net
Author:
Ricci Adams
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Conductor Self Preparation and Rehearsal
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This resource provides information for teachers who lead ensemble rehearsals. Users will be shown how to maximize the progress of the ensemble and keep the rehearsals productive and inspirational.

Subject:
Arts Education
Music
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Reynard Burns Publishing, Inc
Author:
freeflightmusic
Date Added:
02/26/2019