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- 5th - 7th
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Students visit web sites for each of the composersand listen to selections of each composer's music and place important dates of the composers into a pre-printed time line. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students research and report on a composer using encyclopedias, CD-ROM encyclopedias, biographies, and the Internet. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students listen to music composed in the 20th century and discuss varying interpretations. They play a contemporary piece of music and explore techniques available to a modern composer. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students research various composers on the internet to determine when they lived, what type of music they composed, what instruments they played and how they made their music available to the public. They write a brochure about one of the comoposers. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how nature influences music composers. In small groups, students take a field trip to collect colors, sounds, and water samples at a nearby river, and use the data collected to compose a piece of music based on the water encounter. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students delve into the life and music of Duke Ellington as a major American musician and composer. The elements that made the sound of his orchestra unique and the talents of his band members are explored in this lesson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students research the life and music of a significant composer in music history. They research the historical setting of that composer, including art, architecture and artifacts. They create a PowerPoint presentation integrating their research into a creative Pop-up Video presentation. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Student study famous composers and write a paper as well as give a PowerPoint presentation on the specific composer of their choosing. They also listen to a minimum 5 different recordings of that composers works and provide written critiques of each. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students design, compose, and present short musical compositions for keyboard in this lesson plan meant for the high school choir class. This lesson can be adapted to any time frame, but the author suggests a considerable amount of time during a nine-week session of class. Students perform final compositions in class. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students research a composer using both Internet and print media. They demonstrate how to read a piece of music. They conduct interviews of each other to determine material for a news broadcast which they videotape as they simulate being camera and production crews. Full Review »