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Learning Styles/Holistic Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers, in groups, research a music composer of their choice. They create a video showing the composer's life in which students act in it. They also create a pamphlet for a future band concert for that composer.
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Musical Instruments

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students invent a musical instrument to be played by them. They invent a nonstandard notation for music and compose a short piece to preform for the class using their instrument.
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The History of Rock and Roll: Part 6 - My Generation Social an Cultural Influence on Music Composition

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine influences on the creation and development of music.
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Global Music: Steve Reich – Ghana, Bali, America and Germany

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Students explore the music of Steve Reich. In this global music instructional activity, students compare the music compositions of Steve Reich to African and Balinese music. Students discuss their personal comparisons.
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Composing To A Video Clip

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students assess pre-recorded music and sound effects to create an accompaniment to a video clip to express the mood and actions occurring in the video. They incorporate with today's lesson the program GarageBand to assist them with their...
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students improvise then compose and notate melodies with appropriate accompaniments that are inspired by events that transpired during their summer vacations. Requires a networked keyboard lab.
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First Rhythmic Composition

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students apply fractions to counting rhythm in music. In this algebra activity, students interrelate the concept of math into music as they fill out a chart identifying the names and symbols of music notes and their equivalent values in...
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Creating Musical Notation

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
In this creative music activity from Scientific American, students learn about musical notation and then design their own notations. Great web resource links are alsp provided
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Global Music Patterns- Islamic Art

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students compose music using Islamic patterns. In this cultural arts lesson, students examine Islamic art and analyze the patterns. Students incorporate various Islamic patterns into a musical composition.
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Rock and Roll with Music and Movement

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders improvise music and dance to express their analysis of types of rocks. They discuss the three classes of rocks, list describing words, and create a short musical piece and dance to symbolize the rock they are dancing.
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Electronically Composing Music

For Teachers Higher Ed
Pupils complete a worksheet and discuss components of musical composition. Students familiarize themselves with the program, Finale. Pupils then work cooperatively to compose a musical suite.
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General Music Methods

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils work as a class to compose an original four-measure rhythm. After a brief review of a sight reading Gordon rhythm patterns, students compose their own rhythm with each student selecting a part for the composition. All completed...
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Compose Your Memory

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students notate a short musical composition using the notation software Sibelius. This composition is based on a the student's favorite childhood memory. Based on their emotions felt at this time, they incorporate tempo, range, and...
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Say It Loud!: A Celebration Of Black Music in America - Lesson 4

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students choose a theme for a song. They compose a poem, and write music to go along with their poem. The instructor plays the musical accompaniment, and the class votes on the most appropriate rhythmic pattern.
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Musical Form and Sibelius Groovy Music Shapes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners create a song using the form ABACADAEA. Students listen to a musical piece created by Vivaldi that is an example of this musical form. Then learners use software to create their own musical forms representing this pattern.
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Totally Ternary

For Teachers 1st
First graders compose a simple nursery rhyme with percussion and instrumental accompaniment in the general music classroom setting. AB form and rhythmic patterns are emphasized in this 35-40 minute lesson plan.
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Interactive Timeline

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the development of ragtime music and its relation to jazz. They participate in an online Interactive timeline and read about the history of ragtime music, listen to examples of music, and in small groups create short...
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Twelve-Bar Blues

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine blues music. In this music genres lesson, students discover details about the history of the musical genre and compositional techniques. Learners then compose melodies of their own with 12-bar blues chord progression.
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Music to Your Ears

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how the sounds made by everyday objects can be transformed into musical experiences, composing and performing musical pieces using non-traditional instruments.
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Mysterious Music

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate how to compose music for a detective program. The goal is for them to discover the method needed. The idea was simple, they were told to compose the music with emotional tension that climaxed and then relaxed...
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Storytellers: Coldplay

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students discover the importance of lyrics in the successful combination of music and words in the process of composing a song. They discuss how emotion-based lyrics influence the creative aspects in composing a song.
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Lesson Plan for Scheherazade by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the music of Russian composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. They compare the sounds individual instruments make. They listen to and study the story of "Scheherazade" and compare it to other pieces that also portray a story or...
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Folk

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Pupils read about Woody Guthrie and how folk music often tells of events of the time and can be effective protest music.
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Sakura

For Teachers 4th - 11th
Students create, notate, and perform the melody of and a rhythmic accompaniment to the traditional Japanese folk song, Sakura. This instructional activity requires a networked computer lab with headphones.