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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore how the sounds made by everyday objects can be transformed into musical experiences, composing and performing musical pieces using non-traditional instruments. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students compose and notate simple rhythms using shapes. They use a variety of rhythm instruments to play their compositions. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students are introduced to a brief history of musical theater in America. They listen to various pieces of music, watch videos, and study their composers and lyricists. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students are introduced to composer Antonin Dvorak and his Ninth Symphony From The New World. They compose melodies based on familiar folk tunes. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 4th
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Students research and write about three African American composers from Arkansas: Scott Joplin, Florence Price and iam Grant Still. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create their own songs by identifying and incorporating musical notation and methods into an original music composition. They evaluate forms and methods of other compositions from Students of the class and a composer of another era. They write a report on a composer and execute basic conducting skills in relation to their own composition to the class. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students review and discuss the composers Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. They listen then analyze the lyrics of modern music and determine the possible purpose or meaning the composer had for those lyrics. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students study recordings from different composers and choose one composer to research. They compose a piece using their own twelve-Tone matrix and create a PowerPoint on a composer who used these styles. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students study dance as a way to communicate and represent oneself in the world. ¿¿¿ They perform and articulate movement skills from the "dancer's toolbox". They solve problems in dance using the "dancer's toolbox" composing, witnessing, and discussing dance messages. Full Review »

