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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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TAGS
Animals, Instruments, Story, Vocabulary
 
 
 

Meet the Families

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Emry Gensler Hromec Wojcik

Every orchestra is made up of families – four to be exact.  This lesson invites you to meet these wonderfully diverse familes and the members who make up the voice we hear at the symphony.

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GRADE LEVEL
PK-2 3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Math, Performing Arts-Music
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Brass, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , Reading, Sfskids.com, String , Vocabulary, Woodwind
 
 
 

Which Instrument Are You?

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Bonnie Redfern

To accomplish goals, members of families must cooperate, just as members of the orchestra must cooperate to create beautiful music. Similarly, students in a classroom have similar constructs; everyone must do their best for themselves as well as for the good of the whole.  This lesson helps students understand that an orchestra, a family and a classroom must work together to accomplish great things.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Language Arts, Performing Arts-Music
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Brass, Dynamics, Instruments, Orchestra, Percussion , Reading, Sfskids.com, String , Tempo, Vocabulary, Woodwind
 
 
 

Movement of the Animals

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Sue Swenson

Students will understand that music can interpret movement as they focus on how the movement of animals may be best represented by music.  Through their knowledge of tempo and dynamics, the instruments of the orchestra, and knowledge of the physical attributes of animals in the wild, students will create a short musical composition to interpret what they have learned about the movement of animals.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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Animals, Dynamics, Instruments, Orchestra, Tempo
 
 
 

Native American Instruments and Nature

Posted Aug 13, 2009 by Andrea Crisp

Students will understand the relationship with nature reflected in Native American music.  Students will understand that instruments have different voices that reflect these relationships.

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GRADE LEVEL
9-12
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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TAGS
America, History, Instruments, Reading
 
 
 

This is Tempo!

Posted Aug 15, 2009 by Sherrie Matic

This is Tempo gives students the skills and knowledge to listen to music in a new way.  With their new special vocabulary to define the speed of music, they can actually analyze and create music using their new skills.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts, Technology
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TAGS
Animals, Instruments, Sfskids.com, Tempo
 
 
 

'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
 
 
 

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
 
 
 

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
 
 
 

Prehistoric Music

Posted Aug 16, 2009 by Cherie Luck

This lesson shows students where rock music really began! Students will create musical instruments with objects from nature.  Using their created instruments, students compose and perform a musical arrangement, while making connects with their knowledge of life during the Stone Age.

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GRADE LEVEL
6-8
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Social Science
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TAGS
Art, Folk songs, History, Instruments, Percussion , Rhythm
 
 
 

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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TAGS
History, Instruments, Song, Story, War
 
 
 

Composition in Letter and Song: Ode to Beethoven

Posted Apr 30, 2010 by Sonya Fergeson

This lesson is designed to help students gain understanding of Beethoven and his music. We will research Beethoven’s life and music and will compose a letter to him. We will discuss how Beethoven used instrumentation or timbre, dynamics and tempo, and other elements of music to evoke a large variety of emotions for those listening to his music. We will then use the book Sing My Song: A Kid’s Guide to Songwriting by Steve Seskin, to work collaboratively to compose a song with a message that we feel is important to our listeners.

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GRADE LEVEL
3-5 6-8 9-12
SUBJECT
Performing Arts-Music, Language Arts
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TAGS
Beethoven, Dynamics, Instruments, Tempo
 
 
 
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