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Introduction to Technologies in Music Education
High schoolers identify and define a canon. Then, they create a canon in as many parts as they can and describe the various canons. Students also identify and interpret history of canons that includes their origins in Italy and France,...
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200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons
Students discuss the style and characteristics of the Classical era and the genre of opera. They compare and contrast modern day popular icons to musical icons throughout history. They write original librettos to modern entertainment.
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Mozart: Piano Sonata in B-Flat
In this music worksheet, students read about a sonata. Students also answer twenty questions about Mozart's Piano Sonata in B-flat.
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Elementary Lesson Plan
Students explore and describe the characteristics of music from the Classical period. They work in groups to compose an eight bar 2 part line utilizing Sibelius and explains their melody line and how it is similar to the Classical period.
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Triple Meter
Learners chant "Mabel, Mabel, Set the Table" in beats grouped in 4's using a percussive pattern. They repeat using 3's. Students sing a song in 4's and in 3's. they move to recorded music to practice threes. Learners create Orff...
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Name That Tune
Fourth graders listen to different types of music, then categorize them into two different areas of classification.
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Antonio Vivaldi-The Four Seasons
Second graders uncover the form, timbre, and the significance of Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" in the five lessons of this unit. The use of instrumentation forms the basis of the lessons.
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Acadia University: Late Renaissance & Early Baroque Music
This article compares and contrasts Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music with narrative and a side-by-side chart.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Baroque Music
A Wikipedia article on Baroque music distinguishes it from the Renaissance and Classical styles, discusses the different musical genres the Baroque composers wrote in, lists the important features of Baroque music, and provides a list of...
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Baroque Music: Composers
Short bio with listing of works by genre with dates composed. Just click on "Lully".
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Perfect Pitch
Perfect Pitch is an interactive learning environment that lets you form orchestras and create your own orchestral arrangements of music from the baroque, classical, romantic, and modern periods. Clever game design, including a...
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Baroque Music: Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti
Biographies of the Baroque composers Alessandro Scarlatti (1659-1725) and his son Domenico Scarlatti 1685-1757). Other composers can be found by scrolling up or down.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Moldenhauer Archives
The Moldenhauer Archives at the Library of Congress contain approximately 3,500 items documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Antonio Vivaldi
A short biography of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741 CE). Click to the past radio shows to hear his music and learn more about this famous composer.
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Queen's University Belfast: A Bach Bibliography
A COMPLETE bibliography resource on Bach. Click on the type of resource you are looking for: periodicals, books, Q & A, and much more! This is a wonderful resource on this composer.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Musical Periods
This site contains the most significant artistic output of the most important composers within each historical period.
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Baroque Composers and Musicians
This website provides a listing of some of the prominent composers and musical personalities of the baroque period. Those underlined as links will take you to a short biographical article on that particular composer.
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Georg Philipp Telemann: A Biographical Note
A nice, in-depth biography on composer Georg Philipp Telemann is found here. Details on his compositions and life as a composer are given.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Classical Composers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains music and biographical information about many classical composers. Information about the Baroque Era, Classical Era, Romantic Era, and 20th Century Era is also included....
Classical Net
Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers: 1100 1700
A PDF timeline of composers in the Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Timeline of Famous Composers 1600 to Present
PDF document showing composers in various musical eras from the Baroque period to modern times.
PBS
Classics for Kids: Georg Philipp Telemann
A short biography of Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767 CE). Click to the past radio shows to hear his music and learn more about this famous composer.
Classical Net
Classical Net: Bach's Predecessors
A very interesting writing on what composers influenced Bach musically during his artistic development.
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Baroque Composers: Telemann
Brief bio with very organized list of works condensed and catalogued for easy perusal.