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Hero or Tyrant: Connecting Beethoven’s Third Symphony to Napoleon, Part Two

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Jeff Reed

Develop students’ critical thinking and writing in world history classes studying the age of democratic revolutions by engaging them in a series of deep listening activities that link the second and third movements of Eroica, Beethoven's Symphony No.3 to relevant content standards in World History and Language Arts.  Students will improve their ability to engage in five minutes of deep listening to music; participate in the 5-minute to 15-minute class discussions that follow; listen to and write down the ideas of fellow students in Cornell bulleted notes; and sp

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Social Science
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Beethoven, History, War
 
 
 

The Sound I See

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Chris LeMoyne

This lesson represents a yearlong partnership with the local Symphony. My students studied all four musical instrument families - strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion, coinciding with the schedule of the local Symphony. With each instrument family we did free line drawings of instruments (violin, trumpet, flute and timpani). The lessons include visual art, live music and active listening. Finally, their experience will bring an understanding of the culture and climate of the Symphony, as it becomes truly accessible to students of all socio/economic backgrounds.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Visual Arts
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Brass, Concert, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , String , Woodwind
 
 
 

Animal Poetry

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Jessica Grant

Using Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals as a stimulus prompt, students will generate descriptive language of several animals (with special focus on verbs), culminating in the writing of a poem about the animal of their choice.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts
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Animals, Art, Instruments, Poetry, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Gail Claus

This integrated lesson, focusing on United States History, incorporates learning about the Wild West and the western outlaw Billy the Kid through the music of Aaron Copland.  The lesson provides musical reflection and each movement of Copland’s ballet Billy the Kid work and opportunity to experience deep listening for the elements of Dynamics, Articulation, Rhythm and Tempo (DART).

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science
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Composer, Copland, Dance, Dynamics, Geography, History, Rhythm, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

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
 
 
 

A Carnival of Animals and Children

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Kathy Davis

This lesson is designed to teach positional, directional and spatial skills, social skills, large motor skills, creative skills, and oral vocabulary using the "Aquarium" movement from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint- Saëns. The lesson is designed specifically to teach early childhood developmentally delayed students but can the challenge can easily be increased to make it appropriate for older grades or ELL classes.
 

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Math, Special education
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Animals, Art, Dance, Instruments
 
 
 

A Walk Back In Time with Copland

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Lisa Cochrane

The lesson helps the students learn to compare and contrast their current life with the past. It is designed to help them learn to more thoughtfully listen to a composer's piece and write a descriptive paragraph of their interpretation.
 

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Technology, Visual Arts
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America, Art, Composer, Copland, Dynamics, Geography, History, Reading, Tempo
 
 
 

Adding Music to Oklahoma History

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Tammy Chapman

Students will use the San Francisco Symphony's kids website - sfskids.org - to choose music that supports the events and people associated with the history of Oklahoma, such as Native Americans, explorers and exploration, Civil War, Trail of Tears, Land Run, and farmers and ranchers. Students will write two or three sentences to explain and support their selection of music. In small groups, students will create a statue or tableau depicting one of the events. Students will perform their statue or tableau for the class with their musical selection as a background.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Social Science
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America, Composer, Dynamics, History, Instruments, Melody, Rhythm, Sfskids.com, Story, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Adventures in Tempo

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Carmen Cobler

Students will discover the differences in musical tempo between fast and slow.  Students will learn to use the correct musical terms to describe the tempo of each piece of music.  Students will use streamers and their bodies to show at what tempo each piece is played.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Science
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Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Tempo
 
 
 

An African Safari into Creativity

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Janet Rowland

In this lesson students will assign an orchestral instrument to an African animal, using characteristics which they have in common. The students will write a cinquain poem and create a poster (collage) with their African animal as the theme.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts
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Animals, Art, Brass, Instruments, Mahler, Orchestra, Percussion , Poetry, String , Voice, Woodwind
 
 
 

Autumn Leaves

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Jini Maxwell

This lesson involves two genres of music: a classical composition, Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, Autumn from Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi; and a jazz rendition of Autumn Leaves, by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, performed by Wynton Marsalis. The children are given and bring background information about the fall season, particularly how leaves fall off of a tree or blow in the wind. The children engage in an activity where they can drop a leaf and watch it fall or blow.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Science, Visual Arts
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Art, Brass, Composer, Instruments, Jazz, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Beethoven's Beloved Immortal - History or Mystery?

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Christine Friend

Students will gain knowledge of the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven. Within the study, students will be able to identify and use processes important to reconstructing and reinterpreting the past by using a variety of sources; providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims; checking credibility of sources; and searching for causality, to seek to determine the identity of Beethoven’s Immortal Beloved.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Science
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Beethoven, Composer, History, Literature, Reading, Voice
 
 
 
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