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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students examine "serious" choral music written for student choirs and the composers who write it. They reflect upon the notion of "serious" music, and examine the trend of concert composers writing pieces for student chorus Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students group orchestral instruments into the proper category, recognize by sight and sound. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students recognize and clap the syncopated rhythmic beat of a rap song and identify recurring rhythmic pattern in the excerpt of "Dance of the Adolescents" from Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students describe some of the characteristics of country and blues music. They see how country music rose to a nationally known music style. They write a two-paragraph essay on what they think country music be like in the next 100 years. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students study the effects of advertising on the music industry. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students use the internet to research musical periods and composers. They examine how Medieval and Renaissance instruments worked and compare how they sounded. They discover the criteria to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students define the community of Harlem. They explain the growth of music in this area and identify important people who spearheaded this movement. They identify places where music grew in Harlem and establish a visual as well as an aural account of the musical history of this era. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students examine the effect of music on society. While listening to music, they identify the beat, rhythm and write down their reaction to it. Listening to longer selections, they assign a color to the music and share it with the class. They create a piece of art using that color reflecting on the music pieces to end the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students listen to a sampling of a dozen composers and a famous example of music from each. Then they choose a famous composer and do a PowerPoint presentation on that composer. They also take a listening test over all composers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students visit an aquarium. They discuss the fish. Students make a fish puppet. They play "Aquarim" on the Carnival of Animals. Students listen to music, and use the fish they made and pretend they are fish swimming in water. They listen for the different instruments being played, students identify which instruments are being played, and they use the hand with their fish on it as the music goes up and down the music scale. Full Review »
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