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Sheet Music Lesson Plans
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Students create "Harp" pictures using harp shapes, shoe box lids, paints, old sheet music, and inspiration from Harp music in this inter-disciplinary Art and Music lesson for the elementary classroom. Resource links are included for successful implementation.
Students explore bird songs. In this music lesson, students examine human and bird vocal qualities by participating in an activity. Students then examine spectrograms and compare them to sheet music.
Students infer America's attitude towards aviation in the early 1900s. In this The Aerial Age instructional activity, students analyze early 1900s literature, music, advertisements, and popular culture in reference to aviation. Students represent their analysis of primary and secondary sources through creating a collage, essay, exhibit, compact disc, cartoon, editorial, or sheet music cover.
Students participate in activities in which they apply various techniques of melodic variation. After reviewing sheet music for the song "Marianne", they compare lines 1 & 3, then 2 & 4 and discuss the variations in the song. They continue the lesson on the computer using the program Music Ace in order to create a variation using any of the methods previously discussed.
Learners explore how music shapes public opinion. In this history of music lesson, students examine music lyrics that discuss historical events by examining sheet music and other types of music.
Students examine the relationship between real events and popular culture. They analyze the parts of a patriotic song and its impact on a society. They write their own song to end the lesson.
Explore caves with your class. They will participate in scientific observation, research, inference and deduction, reading, vocabulary, and writing about caves. They participate in follow-up activities for each reading selection. Compare and contrast the differences between the various reading selections included in the packet.
Students analyze and perform an American social protest song. They describe its historical setting, consider the effectiveness of the music and recognize that popular music is a reflection of American culture.
Teach your students to appreciate classical music. They listen to and share thoughts about a piece of classical music. Then they will write a piece of music or poem, and analyze their peers' work and their own creative processes.
Students analyze and compare two songs from different periods through the Virtual Gramophone website.
