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- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students read and discuss 'Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra: Mixing Treasures by Duke Ellington and Edvard Grieg,' exploring how jazz transformed European music and the influence jazz has had on modern music. They write musical reviews. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students explore and experience jazz as a social dance form. They study how jazz was an important piece of African-American culture and how it developed. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the development of iams' music and also the place that iams holds in American musical history. They study a traditional jazz combo and the phenomenon of an African-American female artist living in the 20th century. Full Review »
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- 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 delve into the life and music of Duke Ellington as a major American musician and composer. The elements that made the sound of his orchestra unique and the talents of his band members are explored in this lesson. 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
- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the impact of jazz on the novel, "Invisible Man," by Ralph Ellison. They read and discuss excerpts of the novel, write an essay on the influence of jazz on Ralph Ellison as a writer, and view video excerpts on jazz history. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students trace the course of Black music from the 1900's to the beginning of the jazz age. They realize that when education is defined as enlightened training for a place in society and for individual personal development, it was highly respected in Africa. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 11th
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Students investigate the life and education of current conductor, composer, and jazz musician Thara Memory in this 50-minute lesson introducing a two day unit. A video of Thara is included. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students study Jazz music and research their favorite Jazz composer and/or performer. They create a booklet about this person and prepare a presentation for the rest of the class. Full Review »
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