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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students examine "serious" choral music written for student choirs and the composers who write it. They reflect upon the notion of "serious" music, and examine the trend of concert composers writing pieces for student chorus Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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 »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the role of music in film. They listen and identify themes in film music, and select music to accompany a short video clip about the black swan. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th
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Students study about listening strategies, as well as the culture, music and two prominent composers of the Baroque period, namely J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. They demonstrate their understanding of the content through several assessments. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students examine the role of music in changing the cultures of the indigenous cultures in New Zealand and Australia. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students are introduced to a brief history of musical theater in America. They listen to various pieces of music, watch videos, and study their composers and lyricists. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how nature influences music composers. In small groups, students take a field trip to collect colors, sounds, and water samples at a nearby river, and use the data collected to compose a piece of music based on the water encounter. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th
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Students examine aesthetics using existing and student-created program music. They describe music, propose meanings in music and defend their descriptions and propositions.They also describe and defend music and visual arts representations of subject matter that are not from the arts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students research a composer using both Internet and print media. They demonstrate how to read a piece of music. They conduct interviews of each other to determine material for a news broadcast which they videotape as they simulate being camera and production crews. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the question : How does (how has) nature and the environment influence composers? They take a field trip to a nearby water way in order to collect data to create something after they were back in the classroom. Full Review »

