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- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students explores Gregorian chant, the development of music notation, ballads, the lute, and the recorder. They create a mistrel gallery, play the recorder and listen to lute music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to examples of West African music from the Laura Boulton field recordings. In an in-class workshop, each student study to execute a polyrhythmic figures arid read further descriptions of polyrhythm. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students explore and play rhythm sticks while listening to songs from around the world. They locate the countries of origin on a map, and tap their rhythm sticks to the beat of the music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students evaluate their personal preferences in music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students are provided with opportunities to develop the ability to assess how elements of music are used in a work to create images or evoke emotions. They listen to examples of program music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students listen to various genres of music and identify which elements of music or qualities of each genre make it unique. They also learn appropriate audience responses to performances of various music genres. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students sample several types of music from the Hawaiian Islands. They listen to mele chants, religious himeni music, slack-key guitar playing and falsetto singing. Students are introduced to the influence of immigrants on Hawaiian music and discuss the historical context for each. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students study the role of the flute in Native American music while determining what an exemplary example of flute music sounds like. They develop a method of assessing a Native American flute performance. They perform a Native American flute piece before assessing it, and the performances of others. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students explore various string instruments in this multi-week music lesson for the upper-elementary grades. Emphasis is placed on group violin lessons, listening to and identifying string instruments, and researching non-European instruments. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st
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Students recognize names of musical notes and how to play them. They review names of notes, play the correct note and write the notes on the musical staff. After their review, they play the games "Around the World" and "Etude." Full Review »

