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Jazz has been called the purest expression of American democracy; a music built on individualism and compromise, independence and cooperation. Join us for an exploration of jazz, America's greatest cultural achievement. Full Review »
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Students will explore ragtime music and gain an understanding of its development in relation to jazz. They will also investigate the historical events during the time the genre evolved. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Studnets explore Marylanders, Eubie Blake, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, and Chick Webb Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students explore the CBC Archives site on Oscar Peterson: A Jazz Giant to investigate racism, discrimination, and segregation in Canada and the United States up to the 1960's. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students study early New Orleans Jazz music and recognize Louis Armstrong as an early jazz artist. They recognize the elements and roots of Jazz. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students recognize significant developments in New Orleans jazz music. They improvise blues licks using notes from a minor pentatonic scale. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students listen to, analyze, and describe music. They explain musics relationship to history and culture. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students compare and contrast the basic vocabulary of ballet, modern, and jazz dance through observation and experience. This lesson correlates with the DanceSense Enhanced DVD. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compose a complementary walking jazz bass line to accompany a given chord sequence, and reflect and analytically review their composition based upon characteristics of walking jazz bass in this exciting, collaborative Music lesson. Full Review »
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