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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to ragtime and the music of Charles Ives that was ragtime-influenced. They listen to classic ragtime of Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake and attempt to analyze the music. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students examine Holst's, The Planet Suite. They explore the connection between music, literature, and science. They construct a planetary temperature chart for this unit designed to last seven days, Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students listen to and study Gustav Holst's, "The Planets Suite" as they participate in language arts, math, history, and astronomy activities in this unit. They create graphs, discover planets, draw pictures and make music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students uncover the form, timbre, and the significance of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" in the five lessons of this unit. The use of instrumentation forms the basis of the lessons. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students trace the course of Black music from the 1900's to the beginning of the jazz age. They realize that when education is defined as enlightened training for a place in society and for individual personal development, it was highly respected in Africa. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students engage in a lesson that is intended to develop the skills of research to find the proper resources needed to find information. The lesson includes dialogue boxes that is intended for the teacher to use for direct instruction. Students obtain information and construct a bibliography. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students explore a major period of Western music history. They identify selected composers, their work and information about the cultures and regions of that period. Students study and perform music written by selected composers of the time period. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students explore similarities and differences in opera and American musical theater. They explore the characteristics of both genres and create original dramatic presentations of either opera or American musical theater to share with the entire class. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students sing the syllables and pitches of the C major scale. They study the concept of higher and lower, going "up" and "down" in music. They use personal keyboards, review the way to find middle C on a keyboard, review the correct fingering of the scale, then play the scale ascending and descending with the correct fingering while singing the music syllables. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students identify various instruments within a symphony. Using the instruments, they group them into families based on their similarities and differences. In groups, they review each family and the instruments in them. They listen to music that match the various families while completing the activity. Full Review »
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