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- 5th - 7th
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Students visit web sites for each of the composersand listen to selections of each composer's music and place important dates of the composers into a pre-printed time line. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students listen to and share thoughts about a piece of classical music. They write a piece of music or poem, and analyze their peers and their own creative processes. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students research and report on a composer using encyclopedias, CD-ROM encyclopedias, biographies, and the Internet. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students focus on music from the Classical period, highlighting the life and work of Mozart. This eight lesson unit culminates with a recorder performance of some of the pieces studied. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students are introduced to classical music by listening to the music. They also examine how the music evolved and what the composers are trying to say. Full Review »
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- 5th - 6th
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Students listen to pieces of classical music by Handel and Palestrina. They explore the concepts of timbre and polyphony. In groups, they are to identify when different tones of music are being played. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students listen to a sampling of a dozen composers and a famous example of music from each. Then they choose a famous composer and do a PowerPoint presentation on that composer. They also take a listening test over all composers. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students are introduced to the classical period in music history. After listening to examples, they identify and describe the characteristics of music during this time period and research the main composers. Using the internet, they discover how the harpsichord evolved into the piano. Full Review »
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- 5th - 9th
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Students examine classical music and the "Art Rock" of 1967. They review classical themes in their original genre and discuss/analyze how pop musicians incorporate theses themes into a variety of pop music genres. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students explore and describe the characteristics of music from the Classical period. They work in groups to compose an eight bar 2 part line utilizing Sibelius and explains their melody line and how it is similar to the Classical period. Full Review »

