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Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring: A Myth is Born

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Gail Claus

This lesson will contrast Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring (classical) and Stephane Furic's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (jazz), and the role the poems Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman and The Bridge by Hart Crane, bring to the music.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts

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America, Composer, Copland, Dance, Geography, History, Jazz, Literature, Poetry, Story

Beethoven's Barometer

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Leah Nellis

Students will have made visual and numerical representations of change by making aural observations of the musical dynamics of a recorded excerpt from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, first movement. They will record the data in a bar graph and make observations about the changes and effects, which they may apply as a storytelling device.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Math, Science

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0

TAGS
Beethoven, Dynamics, Poetry, Story

American Civil War Songs

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Pat Miller

Music was one way the soldiers of the American Civil War could both pass the time and remember home and family. They whistled or sang familiar songs while performing menial duties, and some played instruments such as harmonicas and fiddles during their free time. Students will compare and contrast a Union song and a Confederate song, and see firsthand what these soldiers were experiencing.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8 9-12

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science

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0

TAGS
History, Instruments, Song, Story, War

Second Graders - Take Five!

Posted Aug 15, 2009 by Heidi Doyle and Joanne Sweet

Students learn that it is possible to use some of the same strategies for understanding music that we use to understand literature. Students have an opportunity to identify a musical theme when played by in a variety of styles.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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0

TAGS
Beethoven, Biography, Reading, Story

Scheherazade’s New Tale: Strong Introductions

Posted Aug 15, 2009 by Kristin Machamer

Students will use the music of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade to inspire a strong introduction to a story. By assuming the role of Scheherazade, students will write an introduction and collaborative story about Sinbad the Sailor. They will then take a comparative look at their own creations and the original story by Rimsky-Korsakov.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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0

TAGS
Reading, Story

Looking at Music Through the Six Traits Lens

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Rebecca Cardon

This lesson provides students an opportunity to use classical music to deepen their understanding of the Six Traits of Writing. Through listening and responding to music, the students make associations and draw conclusions that contribute to their ability to produce strong writing.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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0

TAGS
Dynamics, Reading, Rhythm, Story, Tempo

Listen to the Stories of the Four Seasons

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Sheng-Yin Lin

Students will use their understanding of narratives (character, plot, setting, beginning, middle, and end) to create their own descriptive stories inspired by the music of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and his words to his Sonnets.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts

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1

TAGS
Art, Story

Learning Literary Terminology Through Music

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Stefanie Friesen

While gaining exposure to a wide range of music – from classical to contemporary - students will understand that music and literature share a common language. Students will understand that hearing the language of music helps us to understand the language of literature.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Visual Arts, Performing Arts-Other

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0

TAGS
Literature, Story, Vocabulary

Pedro y El Lobo (Peter and the Wolf)

Posted Aug 12, 2009 by Cathleen Colby

Peter and the Wolf becomes Pedro y El Lobo as students in Spanish class are given the opportunity to increase their vocabulary with an exploration into the classic musical tale by Sergei Prokofiev. This lesson provides practice in new vocabulary and natural dialogue as the students create a new ending to the tale and perform it in front of their peers.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12

SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Foreign Language

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0

TAGS
Animals, Instruments, Story, Vocabulary