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Composing Your Melody
In this music worksheet, students perform a given melody of four phrases. Students also improvise their own melodies using notes G, A, C, D, and E.
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Classical Period: Understanding Four-Bar Sequences
Her is an interesting topic, as well as a great way to teach it! You'll find two worksheets on this link, one for the teacher, and one for the learner. Worksheet one describes how classical composers used musical repetition to make their...
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Composing Your Own Melody
Get the songwriters in your class started early with an engaging music composition activity. After experimenting with an existing melody, class members improvise in a given range of notes and create their own melodies.
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Compose Your Own Melody
In this music worksheet, students compose their own melody. Students read and play two lines of an example melody and simple bass part.
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Composing Your Chorus
In this composing your chorus worksheet, students complete the 5 tasks explained on this worksheet to create their own catchy, repetitive melody.
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Composing the Chorus
In this composing the chorus worksheet, learners listen to and critique the song 'Fly Away'. Students compare the chorus with the verse and show how the chorus is different from the verse by circling the words that apply to the chorus.
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Composing the Chorus
In this composing the chorus worksheet, students listen to Fly Away by Lenny Kravitz comparing the chorus to the verse as they identify the words that apply to the chorus. In addition, students respond to 1 short answer question.
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Composing Your Own Song
In this composing task worksheet, students read 2 pages of information regarding basic composition, backing rhythms, composing the melodies by ear and from the chord, and composing the chorus. Steps and tips for composing are listed in...
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Composing Your Own Song
In this music worksheet, learners read about composing their own song and how to get started. They identify the main features that make a good song and the various layers that make up the overall texture. Students also use the three...
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Medieval Music (c500 - 1450)
In this Medieval music instructional activity, 8th graders read about the instruments and parts of the music, including harmony, melody, and unison. They answer 7 homework questions based on the reading.
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Characteristics of the Classical Period
In this music instructional activity, students identify the specific characteristics of the Classical Period in music. They define seven key terms related to the period and who the composers were of that time period.
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Song Writing
In this music learning exercise, students identify specific tips for composing a song. They use strophic form where each verse has the same melody. Students also select a chord sequence and use cadences at the end of each phrase and...
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Project 7a B-b-b-Ballad!
In this ballad composition worksheet, learners compose a ballad in any key as they write a 12 line rhyming poem and continue to follow the other 6 steps to create their original ballad.
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Joe Trio
In this music worksheet, students answer 6 questions about classical music and do one piano keyboard labeling activity. Student watch a Canadian show in order to answer the questions.
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Opera Buffa
For this opera buffa work sheet, students read a 1 paragraph description of opera buffa and then identify a melody that could accompany the lyrics on the sheet. In addition, students make up their own words for an opera buffa and then...
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Listening To A Fanfare
In this music worksheet, learners read the biography of a composer and then focus upon his primary work of creating graphic compositions.
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Listening to a Fanfare
In this Leoš Janáèek and sinfonietta activity, students read about the Czechoslovakian composer and about sinfonietta in this 1 page activity and respond to 2 short answer questions.
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Indian Composition
In this Indian music worksheet, students use Indian notes to write their own RAGA. They write an 8 bar melody using the given rhythms.
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Project 7b: B-b-b-Ballad Part 2!
In this original music composition worksheet, students compose a piano accompaniment for their own original ballads as they follow the 7 steps on this worksheet,
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Wetlands - Frog Facts Song
In this frog facts song worksheet, students follow directions on how to compose a song using frog facts. Students pick a well known children's song, gather facts about frogs, and then write new lyrics to the children's song.
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The Victorian Era
In this Victorian Era worksheet, students research and name the three inventions from the Victorian Era, Queen Victoria's favorite composer and who invented the light bulband phonograph.
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Opera Buffa
For this opera buffa worksheet, students explore what an opera buffa is and then make up one on their own with funny lyrics and at the end add a melody.
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Every Day Edit - George Gershwin
In this everyday editing instructional activity, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about George Gershwin. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
Special needs in Music
Music Work Sheet (Special Ed)
Music is beneficial for all learners. Help your learners with special needs learn about different styles of music, as well as the ways that music is represented on paper, with 30 different worksheets.