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Overhead Transparencies HandoutOverhead Transparencies Handout
Publisher
Music Fun
Resource Details
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Grade
K - 12th
Subjects
Visual & Performing Arts
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Resource Types
Handouts & References
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
Number of Slides
31
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Direct Instruction
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Year
1997
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Overhead Transparencies

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Classroom and studio music instructors will find this packet of 10 transparencies of major value. Images of treble and bass clefs, notes and rests, note values, time signatures, and music language are included. Nothing minor about this resource.

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Additional Tags

staves, clefs, rests, time signatures, music language, harmonic minor scales, harmonic major scales, visual and performing arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Provide young musicians with a laminated keyboard and staves and have them practice adding clefs, key signatures, notes, rests, and signs

Pros

  • Transparencies for C, G, D, A, and E major and harmonic minor scales are included
  • The bold templates can be easily made into transparencies

Cons

  • None

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