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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 12th
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Students read brief biographies of Mozart and Beethoven and identify the composer identified in each of 15 statements on the student work sheet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students discuss pop culture, pop culture icons, and female composers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students, in groups, research a music composer of their choice. They create a video showing the composer's life in which students act in it. They also create a pamphlet for a future band concert for that composer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students study and listen to music of the Baroque period. They research the historical information about the Baroque era and one of the composers of the era and write a paper along with a PowerPoint presentation. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students investigate how a composer (one who writes music) is similar to an author (one who "composes" literature), and to an artist (one who creates a visual "composition"). Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students compose a series of melodic motifs that can be used as vocal warm-ups. Using proper melodic and rhythmic notation allows students to exercise their abilities to navigate a staff and meter. This demonstrates if they are able to modify according to changing musical challenges. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students use classical music to create a context for the lesson. They pick a composer and use a variety of resources to conduct research. Students use the information to make cognitive connections to how music influences culture and society. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the question : How does (how has) nature and the environment influence composers? They take a field trip to a nearby water way in order to collect data to create something after they were back in the classroom. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students use Microsoft Publisher to create a concert program of music featuring a Baroque composer of their choice. They research their chosen composer using the provided internet links. They then create a computerized presentation. Full Review »
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