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Ruby Cliff Computing: Elements of Music Notation

For Students 9th - 10th
Fine site that focuses on music notation and on learning how to read it with a focus on the guitar. Includes charts, tips, and other useful information.
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Rhythm in Baroque Music

For Students 9th - 10th
An article discussing in detail the rhythmic aspects of Baroque music.
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Steven Kreis, PhD

The History Guide: The Romantic Era

For Students 9th - 10th
This personal site from The History Guide is great background information on the romantic period, though little of it deals directly with music.
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Learn About the Musical Style of La Solea

For Students 9th - 10th
Solea, a musical style that is a fundamental element of flamenco, is discussed at this site. Included are styles stemming from solea, singers and example charts of solea rhythms.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: What Material Makes the Most Resonant Soundboard?

For Students 9th - 10th
If you like music and musical instruments, this project might resonate with you. You will investigate materials that could be used to build acoustic musical instruments. You can then use a music box mechanism and a sound level meter to...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 44: Compositional Techniques

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young music students rarely see or, better still, hear a connection between the different types of scales, modes, intervals and other compositional techniques such as meter, tonality, and form used in both traditional 'Art' music and...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Les. 8: Using Rock as Primary Source Material

For Teachers 9th - 10th
I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag' by Country Joe McDonald has been played with great success in classrooms for over twenty years. While it conveys literary elements such as theme, point of view, and irony, it also functions as an...
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

Lesson Plan z.com: Music

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
LessonPlanZ.com, a searchable online database of lesson plans, and provides a listing of music-related lesson plans.
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Analysis of Bach's G Minor Fugue (Bwv 861)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an analysis of Bach's G minor fugue. Also available in Spanish.
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Harmonic Analysis of Debussy's Prelude La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (Book I,viii)

For Students 9th - 10th
A fine analysis of this Debussy prelude. Diagrams and text are easy to understand. The online sound clips are a plus! Site also available in Spanish.
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Analysis of the C Major Invention (Bwv 772) by Bach

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an analysis of this well known Bach invention. Online sound clips enhance the diagrams and text. The site is also available in Spanish.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Poetry and Music Fun With Chris Daughtry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This language arts lesson grabs students' attention by incorporating a popular musician. The lyrics to "Over You" include vivid language that makes identifying figures of speech intriguing. The students will identify similes, metaphors,...
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Whitney Museum of American Art: Georgia O'keefe: Abstraction

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a full-featured analysis of an abstract work by Georgia O'Keeffe that communicates many key elements of her art, such as her use of color, the inspiration she found in nature, and her approach to abstraction. Includes insightful...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Art Critiques Made Easy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A tipsheet giving ideas on how to encourage students to think and speak critically about visual arts, music, dance, and even literature.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Dance Theory and Composition

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information and sources that discuss the elements of dance.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Musical Instrument

For Students 9th - 10th
This wooden musical instrument is in two parts. The main part is a kind of long curved stick to which strings might be attached. The second element of the instrument is a rounded wooden bow, that was used to make music on the strings.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Toy or Musical Instrument

For Students 9th - 10th
The musical instrument or children's toy consists of a rectangular carved piece of wood with a hollowed and decorated handle.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Stringed Musical Instrument

For Students 9th - 10th
Stringed musical instrument found with no string on it. This instrument resembles the guitar yet it has no wooden machine heads that are used to tie up the strings.
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Teachers Lounge

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Although this is considered a teachers lounge, it has many activities for students too. Teachers will love this because there are many lesson plans as well as other activities to do with their students.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Catherine Schmidt Jones: Harmonic Series

For Students 9th - 10th
Dealing with the harmonic series, this website goes into come detail concerning pitch, frequency and color. Test your knowledge with several self checking problems.
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Harmonic Analysis of Chopin's Prelude #8

For Students 9th - 10th
This analysis is well done with clear diagrams, concise text and online sound clips. Also available in Spanish.
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PBS

Pbs: American Masters: The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

For Teachers 11th - 12th
This site contains biographical content drawn from the American Masters Series DVD entitled The Life And Times of Allen Ginsberg. The person featured,Allen Ginsberg, was one of the first "beat" poets. His counterculture experimentation...
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: The Birth of Hip Hop

For Students 9th - 10th
Article focuses on the birth of hip-hop and the four elements of the movement: graffiti art, break dancing, DJing, and MCing (rapping). Author continues with the history of the movement and the personalities involved.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Realizing the Power of Your Own Creativity [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students interpret a poem called 'The Little Blue Engine' by adding music, movement, visual art, and drama. After performing their creation, they will discuss any mathematical and/or scientific connections that have a...

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