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\nUsing Garage Band to Enhance 2nd Grade Composition\n

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\nYour second graders can become composers with a little help from the Garage Band software. You pre-select several drum, piano, and guitar loops for the groups to choose from, then they put them together following an ABA looping pattern....\n
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\n\"Musical\n\n
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\nMusical Traditions of Southern Louisiana\n

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\nThis units gives students opportunities to * Research the history and patterns of French settlement in Louisiana * Discover three types of music (New Orleans jazz, Cajun, Zydeco) which are representative of the Francophone presence in...\n
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\nIntroduce Vocabulary: Rap a Tap Tap (Dillon)\n

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\nExplore the dancing prodigy and Depression-era African-American icon Bill Robinson as scholars learn new vocabulary words in context. As you read Leo Dillon's Rap a Tap Tap they listen for six new words: clatter, greet,...\n
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\nHarmony Break! Finding Emotions With Music\n

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\nGather the entire family (or class members) for a fun Harmony Break! A volunteer thinks of a color from their Mood Meter that they will express by singing, playing an instrument, or performing a dance. After the performance, the audience...\n
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\nPoint of View - Sharing a Perspective on Music\n

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\nStudents share their perspective about music. In this music perspective instructional activity, students complete a music notes handout and watch a segment of a band playing the \"St. Louis Blues.\" Students write a critique of the music...\n
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\nMusic To My Ears: The District of Columbia Quarter\n

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\nStudents practice identifying different genres of music by creating posters.  In this music appreciation lesson, students research Duke Ellington and complete worksheets based on his style of music, Jazz.  Students collaborate...\n
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\nMaking Music\n

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\nStudents create auditory musical patterns. In this patterns lesson, students create a pattern using their hands, feet, dancing, and snapping their fingers.  Students use a recorder to recreate a pattern.\n
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\nDanse Macabre: Saint-Saëns \n

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\nAssist your youngsters as they learn to visualize the story music can tell us. They listen to the piece \"Danse Macabre\" while viewing this slideshow. Each slide describes the key instrument and what creature of the dark it represents. A...\n
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\nExploring Pulse & Rhythm\n

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\nYour class can actually sing and clap along with this slideshow! Discuss the concept of rhythm or pulse, as it is called here. Learners will then clap out the rhythm to the songs, Fre-re Jacques and Row, Row, Your Boat.\n
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\nFocus on Phrasing\n

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\nThe band practices The Star Spangled Banner, while focusing on phrasing. They discuss musical phrasing then practice incorporating it in their performance. Cross curricular extension activities are included.\n
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\nUpward and Downward Motion of Melody\n

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\nFirst graders explore the notion of upward and downward melody motion. They hum, sing, and listen as the melody moves up and down. To show what they know, they put their thumbs up or down as the melody shifts.\n
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\nAllegro Band Warm-Up & Joyance rehearsal\n

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\nIn need of a high school band lesson? This resource includes a warm up, objectives for learners to focus on, and notes for each part of the song being played. These notes are specific to the learners it is written for, but may give you...\n
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\nComposers Timeline\n

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\nTake a quick tour through the last 350 years of music composition with an interactive timeline tool. As learners scroll through the years, they see which composers were born and working during the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern...\n
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\n\"Mars\" from The Planets\n

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\nGustav Holst's The Planets provide young musicians an opportunity to examine how composers can create a suite: a collection of smaller pieces grouped to explore a single topic. After listening to \"Jupiter,\" they examine \"Mars\" in...\n
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\nSt. Patrick’s Day\n

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\nTraditional Irish music can bring even the most stoic audience to tears. This St. Patrick's Day, explore the lilting flutes and mournful ballads of the Emerald Isle with a interactive and inspiring music instructional activity.\n
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\nCreate Your Own Afro-Latin Groove\n

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\nThe backbone of Latin American music is the beat! Young musicians work on blending Afro-Latin rhythms and beat patterns before incorporating the major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, and blues scales in their own compositions.\n
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\nWhy Should You Listen to Vivaldi's \"Four Seasons\"?\n

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\nWhile many of your class members may find the opening strands of \"The Four Seasons\" by Antonio Vivaldi familiar, few may know of the rich history of this program music. Viewers not only listen to portions of the music from each season,...\n
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\nSounds of the Silk Road\n

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\nYoung explorers may not be able to travel the Silk Road but they can listen to music that was played on instruments of the time and create their own songs with the help of an interesting interactive resource. \n
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\nParrot in the Oven: Instructional Routine\n

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\nAfter reading \"The Bullet,\" a particularly intense chapter in Victor Martinez's Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, class members listen to the Spanish and the English versions of \"Dimelo\" by Enrique Iglesias. They then discuss how the...\n
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\nFats Waller, Handful of Keys\n

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\nPlaying piano is great fun and playing jazz is even better. Kids watch a video of Fats Waller playing the song, \"Handful of Keys,\" they then use either a piano key print out or Orff instruments to practice his signature stride piano...\n
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\nExploring African Music\n

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\nStudents appreciate African Music and the rich culture it represents. They identify two characteristics of African Music in their journals.\n
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\nCover the Music\n

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\nStudents explore U.S. history by listening to musical pieces in class. For this Civil War era lesson, students discuss the types of musical instruments that were available to soldiers during the war and the themes of their songs....\n
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\nMozart and Music\n

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\nFifth graders experience performing arts by participating in a music performance. In this music history activity, 5th graders practice playing notes on an instrument in class and discuss the challenges associated with making music....\n
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\nThe Musical Mind\n

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\nStudents go on a tour of how and why music styles have changed over the years, and discover where they can gather some insight about their favorite musical styles and artists. There are excellent websites imbedded in this lesson.\n
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