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\nUpward and Downward Motion of Melody\n

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\nFirst graders explore the notion of upward and downward melody motion. They hum, sing, and listen as the melody moves up and down. To show what they know, they put their thumbs up or down as the melody shifts.\n
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\nMelody: A Very Important Element of Music\n

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\nAs part of an exploration of music, this clear and simple presentation could be a useful tool. It could be used in a music class or in a regular classroom as part of a discussion of the topic. Some of the topics defined include notes and...\n
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\nPass the Melody\n

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\nGet a jam session started in your elementary music class! Learners engage in melody transitions by singing a familiar song and passing on the tune to the next person.\n
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\nClassical Period: Understanding Four-Bar Sequences\n

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\nHer 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...\n
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\nKindergarten Music Lesson\n

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\nSinging, clapping, moving up and down with the melody, it all sounds like a great music lesson. Kinder-musicians sing three different songs to practice memory, speaking, and movement skills. They'll move to the melody, build memory with...\n
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\nSet a Poem to Music\n

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\nFun awaits both you and your class as you embark on a musical activity. After discussing different rhythmic meters they choose a poem to set to music. The poem must rhyme and be set to a melody in the key of C Major. Because the activity...\n
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\nMelody: A Very Important Element of Music\n

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\nNotes, lines, and spaces are the theme of this presentation. This is a basic lesson on music elements. As a first foray into music, this would be adequate, but it could be enhanced with additional information if so desired.\n
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\nComposing Your Own Melody\n

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\nGet 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.\n
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\nSimple Chordal Harmony\n

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\nPractice makes perfect, especially when playing a musical instrument. This lesson examines simple chordal harmony, melody, and playing with accompaniment. Learners listen to a series of songs that exemplify the concept then play a...\n
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\nComposing Your Melody\n

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\nIn this music activity, students perform a given melody of four phrases. Students also improvise their own melodies using notes G, A, C, D, and E.\n
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\nMelody II\n

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\nIn this music worksheet, students determine which string of notes are a harmony and which ones are a melody. Students also form a map of the musical contour of the songs \"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star\" and \"Sweet Georgia Brown.\"\n
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\nCompose Your Own Melody\n

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\nIn this music activity, students compose their own melody. Students read and play two lines of an example melody and simple bass part.\n
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\nThe Shape of a Melody\n

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\nStudents explore the melody in music. In this music lesson, students listen to samples of music and interpret the color of the melodies.\n
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\nThe National Anthem Project: Notating \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" (Middle Level Strings).\n

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\nStudents hear a melody, play in their instruments and write it down on manuscript paper. They correct their melody and play from their own manuscript paper. Students continue this procedure at least once a week.\n
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\nA Melody Activity\n

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\nStudents explore melody. In this music lesson, students define \"melody\" and identify the melody line present in increasingly complex musical pieces. Students sing or hum the melody line after listening to an excerpt of music.\n
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\nThe American Five - Pentatonic scales in early American melodies\n

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\nThrough vocal warm-ups and exercises, budding musicians will attempt to grasp the five pentatonic scales, commonly used in early American songs. They'll sing and work to identify the pitch, tone, melody, and scales being expressed in the...\n
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\nHello Girls\n

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\nNinth grade girls get together to sing the song Hello Girls. They warm up with common voice exercises then work to maintain melody, harmony, pitch and tone. \n
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\nUsing Poetry As Inspiration for Composition\n

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\nA reading of Robert Frost’s \"The Road Not Taken\" launches an interdisciplinary study of the connection between the meters of a poem and a melody. After identifying the number of beats in each line of the poem, young musicians use...\n
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\nPiano Lessons - Left Hand Bass Notes & Right Hand Melodies\n

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\nReview \"When the Saints Go Marching In\" on your right hand and incorporate some notes with your left hand. If you can master this, you're ready for more complex songs!\n
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\nPiano Lessons - Playing Left Hand Melodies\n

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\nNow that you've learned \"When the Saints Go Marching In\" on your right hand, learn it on your left! Take out the copy of your notes and start practicing!\n
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\nIs Perception Reality? Writing Paradoxes in Poetry\n

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\nExplore the paradox of the universe - or, at least, of popular music - with this lesson. Using the songs \"Inaudible Melodies\" by Jack Johnson and \"She\" by Green Day, your class will complete a graphic organizer to help them understand...\n
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\nGoing Up and Down\n

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\nSecond graders listen to and compare music to gain understanding of melodic direction in song, discuss types of movement in song, sing song while moving to it, and create movements that show pitches of melody moving upward, downward, or...\n
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\nRewording Nursery Rhymes\n

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\nThird graders write a song.  In this melody lesson, 3rd graders discuss their favorite nursery rhymes.  Students sing two songs and compare their melodies.  Students use the melody of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to write a...\n
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\n\"Let's Write a Song\"\n

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\nFourth graders analyze, brainstorm and practice playing a melody/pattern with rhythm, tempo, dynamics, and instrumental pieces of many styles. In addition, they create an original piece of music.\n
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