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- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students compose music with musical instruments, and write the proper notation for the songs they have created. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students compose sixteen measures of a melody for warm-up purposes, write their melodies on staff paper with correct pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and sing melodies by reading the notation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- 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
- 9th - 12th
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Student choose a 20th century composer and create a PowerPoint presentation relaying the biography of the composer, the historical events of this era, society and cultural facts of the era, and musical examples of the era and the composer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students research a composer and piece of music including their characteristics of the style period and composers music is identified and defined. They create a PowerPoint presentation on their topic. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 5th
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Students read about and listen to popular twentieth century composers. Reviewing previous lessons, they discuss composers from different eras of history. Using the internet, they gather biographical information on the musician and listen to their music. They share the information they gathered with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students use the internet and other sources to read about the lives of two composers. Afterwards, they compare and contrast their lives of each composer. Students create a timeline for each composer's life and fill it in with events that occurred in U.S. History. Full Review »
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