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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Composing With Computers

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online course on music composition with computers. Includes all course material, projects, assignments, and exams with solutions.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Fundamentals of Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete undergraduate-level online course on the fundamentals of music.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Harmony and Counterpoint I

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete online course on the topic of harmony in music. Resource offers projects and examples, assignments, and exams with solutions.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Harmony and Counterpoint Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online class on harmony in music. Resource includes all course materials, projects, examples, assignments and exams with solutions.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to Anglo American Folk Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate-level online course on folk music.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to Western Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete undergraduate-level online course that introduces the history of western music.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Introduction to World Music

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete undergraduate-level online course on world music.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Modern Music: 1900 1960

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online class on the topic of modern music in the 1900s. Includes complete course material.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Music Composition

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online course on music composition. Includes all course material, projects, assignments, and exams with solutions.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Music of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate-level online course on the music of Africa.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Music of India

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online class on the topic of modern music in the 1900s. Includes course assignments.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Musical Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online class on musical analysis. Includes all course materials, projects, examples, assignments and exams with solutions.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Popular Musics of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete undergraduate-level online course on world music.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Schubert to Debussy

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete undergraduate-level online course on Western music history for the period 1815-1915. Includes course assignments.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Symphony and Concerto

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, undergraduate level online class on the topic of modern music in the 1900s. Includes exams.
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Masks and Aesop's Fables

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This multi-media visual and language arts lesson offers intellectual, creative, and interpretive opportunities through use of books, music, and the internet. It offers complete grade-leveled lesson plans for grades k-4 which include...
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Website
BBC

Bbc Radio2: Sold on Song

For Students 9th - 10th
If you love classic pop and rock songs and performers, you'll want to visit this site. Includes background information and audio, a glossary, a guide to songwriting styles, songwriting tips, music quizzes, interviews, and so much more....
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Website
National Arts Centre (Canada)

Arts Alive: Music

For Students 9th - 10th
ArtsAlive provides a website devoted to the music of the orchestra. Content includes a glossary of musical terms, biographies of significant composers, information on specific instruments, activities and games, teacher resource guides,...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sapelo Island Culture

For Students 9th - 10th
In this video segment from EGG: the arts show, learn about the Gullah/Geechee culture of Sapelo Island.
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Article
Scott Alexander

Red Hot Jazz: Benny Goodman and His Orchestra

For Students 9th - 10th
Lots of information on Benny Goodman with links to related subjects: his music, his band members, his bands and orchestras.
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Handout
University of Pennsylvania

Eugene Ormandy a Centennial Celebration

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful exhibit of this incredible man who was a talented musician as well as the music director for the Philadelphia Orchestra for 42 years.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Finding the Common Beat

For Students 3rd - 8th
The CyberSquad figures out how to represent the patterns of music played by four instruments in this Cyberchase video segment.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Sound Bites: Tasting the Texture of Classical Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know that your sense of hearing can determine texture? This Science Buddies science fair project has you experiment with four major eras in western music to determine the texture of the music. The Science Buddies project ideas...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Don't You Fret! Standing Waves on a Guitar

For Students 9th - 10th
In this project, you will investigate the physics of standing waves on guitar strings. You will learn about the different modes (i.e., patterns) of vibration that can be produced on a string, and you will figure out how to produce the...