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.

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).

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 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.

In this lesson, students explore the effect that a particular culture can have on popular music.

In this lesson, students explore the effect that a particular culture can have on popular music.

Students will learn about Middle Eastern music, its transformations in the United States, and basic forms of belly dance movement. This lesson examines belly dance music, performed by Lebanese-American musician George Abdo, an example of music in Arab American communities during the 1970s.

Students consider the negative image that some have of rap and hip-hop music through discussion and reading an opinion piece from The New York Times. They then examine rap and hip-hop songs that promote more positive ideas and values and create CD cover artwork reflecting these messages

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 learn about how art and music can be powerful tools for conveying a political or social message. After considering the issues surrounding rapper Paris's latest album, students will design their own album covers that reflect their political and/or social concerns.

Students are introduced to two contrasting dance traditions from
Argentina: the Chacarera and the Tango. Elements of the music used to accompany both types
of traditional dance will be explored.

Students explore the ways in which the worlds of popular music and opera can work together to complement the other. Students work in small groups to analyze the plot, characters, setting and themes of a popular opera using a summary of that opera as a guide. Students then rewrite what they consider to be the opera's pivotal scene, placing the scene in a modern setting. Finally, students view and evaluate a filmed version of the opera, assessing how the various story elements of the opera are affected by being performed in the opera genre.

In this two-day lesson, students explore the ways in which the worlds of popular music and opera can work together to complement the other. Students work in small groups to analyze the plot, characters, setting and themes of a popular opera using a summary of that opera as a guide. Students then rewrite what they consider to be the opera's pivotal scene, placing the scene in a modern setting. Finally, students view and evaluate a filmed version of the opera, assessing how the various story elements of the opera are affected by being performed in the opera genre.

In this two-day lesson, students explore the ways in which the worlds of popular music and opera can work together to complement the other. Students work in small groups to analyze the plot, characters, setting and themes of a popular opera using a summary of that opera as a guide. Students then rewrite what they consider to be the opera's pivotal scene, placing the scene in a modern setting. Finally, students view and evaluate a filmed version of the opera, assessing how the various story elements of the opera are affected by being performed in the opera genre.

Students will be introduced to Turkish style song and dance through listening to,
recreating the sounds of, and dancing Bacon is in the Larder.

Students will contrast styles of southern and northern Italy through attentive listening, moving, instrument playing and singing. This unit is a survey of regional differences in Italian folk music.

This not-for-profit multi-media organization encourages and celebrates the development of youth through classical music. Students can listen to the archived radio programs and read biographies and interviews of the young musicians. The site includes MENC lesson plans for middle and high school classes and a teacher’s guide. Activities which encourage critical thinking and listening, role modeling, exploration of multiple representations of music, and interviewing techniques can be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Students begin by brainstorming the functions or purposes of music and by discussing music's power as a mirror and a symbol. A special focus will be made on the use of music to sell- how advertisers use the power of music to create bonds between consumers and products. As a group activity, students will create and present multi-media, musical collages, based on the functions of music that they have brainstormed. This lesson examines how music reflects and influences societies and is a metaphor for ideas and experiences.

Students are introduced to the culture and music of Mardi Gras Indians, an important African American phenomenon that takes place in New Orleans. Students will examine the tradition and its culture-bearers, listen to and analyze Mardi Gras Indian music, and examine the multiple cultural influences that have contributed to the tradition. Students will gain experience in listening, movement, and performance, which will enrich their sense of the musical and cultural complexity of this phenomenon.

This lesson will introduce students to the History the Nutcracker Ballet by P.I. Tchaikovsky. They will learn and listen about History the Nutcracker Ballet by P.I. Tchaikovsky through the resources provided.