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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students watch a video on improvisation. They improvise original melodies over given chord progressions. They develop criteria to evaluate the merits of improvisational performances and apply the criteria in their personal listening and performing. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students recognize significant developments in New Orleans jazz music. They improvise blues licks using notes from a minor pentatonic scale. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students identify key jazz features such as improvisation, syncopation, soloists and solos. After students listen and critique different music they write and perform their own origional blues lyrics. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students examine the connection between sense of humor and jazz improvisation by identifying the imusical instruments imitated by comedian Bill Cosby. They listen to another recording by Clark Terry and write what they think he might be saying. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 6th
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Students delve into the music of bebop style jazz and the life and talents of some of the great musicians. The styles of Charlie Parker and James Moody are compared and contrasted in this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine time and meter in the jazz idiom. They analyze Take the A Train and Take Five. They research websites featuring Ella Fitzgerald and her music. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th - 12th
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Students evaluate jazz music and a jazz music performance. They collaborate and create an improvised group short story. They improvise a musical piece on found objects. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 11th
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Students practice playing and improvising while playing the 12 bar blues. They practice compositional skills, evaluate and perform musical pieces focused on the blues. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students recognize traditional harmonic progressions such as I-V-I in writing or performance. Students experience improvising simple melodic patterns based on traditional harmonic progressions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore how to develop motifs in the context of a blues scale. They plan and compose a short set of variations on a given musical stimulus. Students investigate how the music of diverse improvisation traditions share common processes and procedures. Full Review »
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