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Selecting a Musical Score for Reader's Theater

Posted Mar 28, 2011 by Holly Locey

Students will practice and perform a Reader's Theater entitled Salt, a Russian folktale. They will hear a story about the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and listen to four of his compositions: Swan Lake, Serenade for Strings, Marche Slave, and 1812 Overture. Finally, in groups of five to eight students, they will choose a musical score from these pieces to accompany their section of the Reader's Theater.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, English Language Learner
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TAGS
Composer, Folk songs, Tchaikovsky, Theater
 
 
 

Seasons Rondo

Posted Mar 28, 2011 by Donna Boyes

Students will work in groups to compose pieces of music to represent a season of the year. They will combine the pieces into a Rondo form.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Science
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TAGS
Dynamics, Instruments, Percussion
 
 
 

Composing the Canyon

Posted Apr 09, 2011 by Sara Stahl

In the years following World War I, American composers like Ferde Grofé (1892 – 1972) sought new models of composition to authentically capture the American musical identity. The Grand Canyon Suite (1931) by Grofé reflects a strain of American composition in the 1930's where orchestral works depicted scenes of American life in a modern world. Inspired by the grandeur of the Grand Canyon, Grofé paints a musical impression of a day in the canyon for the listener, translating the beauty of nature into a tangible art form.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
English Language Learner, Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts
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TAGS
America, Art, Biography, Copland, Geography, Ives
 
 
 

Choosing Fonts to Describe Music

Posted Apr 09, 2011 by Cynthia Conn

This is a lesson that integrates technology and music. Through this lesson, students complete several activities, including: 1) recognizing how body language and visual images (paintings and photos) convey emotion or meaning; 2) discussing what fonts are (i.e., styles of text) 3) deep listening and describing musical pieces, including comparing and contrasting musical pieces; and 4) using a template with descriptions about each music piece, students select an appropriate font to match the music.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Technology
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TAGS
Copland, Sfskids.com
 
 
 

The Elements of Love: Shakespeare v Wagner

Posted Apr 09, 2011 by Minu Dave

While reading and performing Shakespeare's Hamlet, students will learn about the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia. Students will explore the idea of love further through music, specifically Richard Wagner's three-act opera, Tristan und Isolde. Students will compare and contrast the different types of love expressed (in both the opera and the play) as well as compare and contrast the way love is communicated through music and dramatic performance.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Technology
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0
TAGS
Literature, Story, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Introducing Tempo

Posted Apr 19, 2011 by Gail Van Ooteghem

My lesson is an introductory lesson on tempo. Students will be introduced to the vocabulary terms of largo, moderato, and presto. Students will relate these terms to their own environment, through movement with their bodies, and then apply this knowledge to music.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music
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TAGS
Sfskids.com, Tempo
 
 
 

Native American Music and Rhythm

Posted Apr 19, 2011 by Nicole Dissinger

Students will understand the basics of rhythm and its correlation with Native American music. They will also create their own Native American and know how to develop their own rhythm.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts
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0
TAGS
History, Percussion , Rhythm, Sfskids.com
 
 
 

Fairy Home, Fairy Play

Posted Apr 25, 2011 by Gael Reed

The students will have a deeper understanding of the vocabulary words: gather, exciting, cooperate, activity and exhausted. Students will be able to compare and contrast two pieces of music, distinguish between real and fantasy, fiction and non-fiction. Students will be able to sequence a story, telling about main events and using vocabulary.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Visual Arts
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0
TAGS
Dance, Instruments, Literature, Story, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Vibrating Columns of Air with Bottle Flutes and Panpipes

Posted Apr 25, 2011 by Helen Patten

This lesson is a small part of a larger unit on the science of sound. The unit has several sections, including: how sound is made, the elements of sound, how sounds travel, and how we hear sounds. This particular lesson is part of the section in which we distinguish the difference between musical sound and noise. We examine the different ways in which musical instruments make sound - or the different way each one creates vibrations of air.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Science
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0
TAGS
Folk songs, Geography, Instruments, Vibrations , Woodwind
 
 
 

Aaron Copland Meets the Old West

Posted Apr 25, 2011 by Maria Cruz

Students will develop the skill to write more expressively using descriptive words and phrases such as adjectives, adverbs, metaphors and similes in order to make their writing come alive, and be more visual and engaging.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Social Science, Visual Arts
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0
TAGS
America, Composer, Copland, Geography, History, Story
 
 
 

Moving to Tchaikovsky

Posted Apr 26, 2011 by Elizabeth Sublett

Students will be able to identify "same" and "different" in sections of “Trepak” from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, while learning and practicing different kinds of locomotor and non-locomotor movements. Students will work on skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, walking, tiptoeing as well as bending, twisting, and stretching all in time with the music. Students will be able to identify when the tempo of the music gets faster.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other
COMMENTS
0
TAGS
Dance, Tchaikovsky, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Aaron Copland in the Heartland

Posted May 03, 2011 by Laura Knapp

Students will listen to Copland's Appalachian Spring while listening to a reading of Heartland by Diane Siebert. They will listen for sensory details in both the music and the literature. Students will then write their own poems and create a watercolor.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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0
TAGS
America, Art, Copland, Poetry
 
 
 
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