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'Cmon - Feel the Noise!

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Heidi Doyle and Joanne Sweet

How does someone who is deaf enjoy music?  Can they hear it?  Can they make it?  Through exploring the life and music of Evelyn Glennie, students will understand that music is sound produced by vibrations, and will create their own instrument out of found objects to compose a musical score for presentation.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Science
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TAGS
Acoustics, Art, Instruments, Percussion , Vibrations
 
 
 

Earthquake Symphonies

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Rick Carreiro

Can earthquakes write music?  Using seismograms and music score sheets, students record the earth’s movements to create Earthquake Symphonies.  Students listen to and analysis the music of Beethoven’s Eroica and how it relates to the movement of the earth.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Science
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Acoustics, Beethoven, Dynamics, Geography, Physics, Rhythm, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Musical Instruments and the Science of Sound

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Diane Immethun

Students are able to demonstrate the difference in pitch and dynamics that can be produced on various instruments through vibrations.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Science
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TAGS
Acoustics, Dynamics, Instruments, Pitch, Vibrations
 
 
 

Sounds of Music

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Rebecca Cardon

Can we hear the sounds of music?  Students will predict how well they think they can detect the dynamics of music by well known composers.  Through scientific inquiry, students will create an entry for the science fair which compares predictions with data collected by a Quacker Tracker while their musical selection is played.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Science
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Acoustics, Beethoven, Composer, Copland, Dynamics, Percussion , Physics, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Vibrations
 
 
 

Admirable Armonica Admirers

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Mary Alice Hillman

Students will discover how the love of music connected two important figures in world history: Benjamin Franklin, an American founding father, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an Austrian composer.  Additionally, students will begin to understand pitch, and how each note is calibrated to create its own unique sound.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science
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TAGS
Acoustics, History, Instruments, Physics, Pitch
 
 
 

Introduction to the Orchestra

Posted Dec 21, 2010 by Gail Claus

Students will gain a basic knowledge of acoustics, the families of instruments in the orchestra, an instrument’s pitch range, and how sound is produced by an instrument.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Performing Arts-Other, Technology
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Acoustics, Brass, Composer, Concert, Dynamics, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , Pitch, String , Tempo, Vibrations , Vocabulary, Woodwind
 
 
 

A Fork is a Fork is a Fork ... Or is it?

Posted Feb 15, 2011 by Jana Jean

Ever see a glass tuning fork? Are some materials better suited to make tuning forks? Students will learn the history of the tuning fork and the latest technological advances. They will learn how a tuning fork works and why some materials are better suited to make tuning forks.
 

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8 9-12
SUBJECT
Science
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TAGS
Acoustics, Brass, Copland, Instruments, Physics, Pitch, Vibrations
 
 
 

BONG! DIDDLE! CRASH! Musical Onomatopoeia

Posted May 05, 2011 by Julie Silva

Students will learn about dynamics, tempo, acoustics and instruments in the music of Charles Ives. Students will be introduced to and learn about the literary term onomatopoeia, and how it can relate to the sounds composed by Ives in The Unanswered Question, Central Park in the Dark and Symphony No 4. Students will then relate the literary term to musical expression. Making the connection between literacy and music, students will create their own musical onomatopoeias using various media, such as watercolor, tempera paint, crayons, magazine text and markers.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music, Visual Arts
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Acoustics, Art, Dynamics, Instruments, Ives, Tempo, Vocabulary
 
 
 
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