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Mozart's Magic

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students become familiar with the young composer through his life's story and his music. They get to make some music of their own by using musical instruments that exist both online and all around them.
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Fiddling Around

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers look at a piece of art to make connections between early Baroque art and Baroque music. In this art and music lesson, students focus on the painting The Boy Violinist, by Hendrick Terbrugghen. They listen to the music to...
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Boombox Classroom: Baroque, By George!

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this music worksheet, students circle the various types of music composed by Handel. They select the vocabulary term that refers to a mini-opera without acting.
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VH1 Storytellers for Save the Music Starring Billy Joel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a Billy Joel song to write a scenerio about it.
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Pentatonic Scale- Chinese Music

For Students 6th - 7th
In this pentatonic scale activity, students review the meaning of scale, notes, and flats. They read about the notes used in the Chinese pentatonic scale and learn how to name them. There are no questions associated with this activity.
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Notating Friedrich von Schiller’s Theme to “Ode to Joy.”

For Teachers 6th - 12th
To demonstrate their skills with traditional and computer-assisted notation, young musicians notate and perform the first eight measures of Friedrich von Schiller's theme to "Ode to Joy."
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Library of Congress

The Harlem Renaissance

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The Harlem Renaissance brought forth many American art forms including jazz, and the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. Using a carefully curated set of documents from the Library of Congress, pupils see the cultural...
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West Side Story Suite and In The Night Fancy Free

For Teachers 8th - 12th
West Side Story and Romeo & Juliet—two classics in their own rights that help young literature lovers better analyze different works. Learners research and compare the characters and story elements of West Side Story and Romeo &...
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Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra, Movements 1 & 2 By Arnold Schoenberg

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pupils study composer, Arnold Schoenberg. They compare landscapes to soundscapes and study abstract art and abstract music. They answer questions and write about both in their journals. They identify abstract artist and composers from...
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Melody Words

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders compose a melody by placing words on the music staff. They play their melody words for the class.
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The Rhythm of Life - Episode One - Rhythm

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the role of music in their lives. They examine rhythm as the building block of music and examine how to appreciate music. They investigate music as a tool in health and healing.
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Create-a-Composition

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students creatively express themselves by creating simple pieces of music.
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The Rhythm of Life - Episode 3 - Harmony

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students complete a unit on musical harmony. They listen to examples of three part harmonies, watch a video, complete a data sheet, prepare a report on the history of harmony, and complete a multimedia report on music for the movies.
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Discover the History of Melody

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Learners connect to music resources. In this music lesson plan, students visit the websites of the Handel House Museum, the Horniman Museum, Reid Concert Hall, and the National Center for Early Music. Learners may research the virtual...
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Keeping Time

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students compose lyrics to songs for a music festival to promote issues in their community. They write artists' statements explaining the issues they chose to write about.
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Melodic Variation

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students participate in activities in which they apply various techniques of melodic variation. After reviewing sheet music for the song "Marianne", they compare lines 1 & 3, then 2 & 4 and discuss the variations in the song. ...
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Soundtrack to War

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss the important role of music in lives of soldiers stationed in Iraq. They identify and demonstrate skills in creating compositions with limited resources, similar in concept to the soldiers viewed in the documentary.
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Indian Composition= RAGA

For Students 6th
In this music worksheet, students use the given notes to write a composition of Indian music know as RAGA. They make 8 compositions.
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I Heard It on the Radio

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students develop a portfolio of information of contemporary musicians or individuals from the music industry.
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Pentatonic Scale

For Students 4th - 5th
In this music worksheet, students read information about the pentatonic scale and the notes that are included in it. Students discover that the pentatonic scale is typical of Chinese music. There are no questions on the page.
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The Clarinet Family

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this music worksheet, students investigate the features and history of the clarinet. Students answer 6 multiple choice questions. No information is provided on the page.
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Making Progress: From Chords to Melody

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review chord progression while listening to tracks of music. They write melodies to fit a given chord progression. They sing their melodies and analyze how it compares to the original melody.
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Soul Legend Wilson Pickett

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students analyze the lyrics to the soul music of Wilson Pickett as a step towards the exploration of the life and talents of the man. The language and expressions utilized in a descriptive article about the composer form the basis of the...
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Amazing Fibonacci

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners integrate the patterns of Fibonacci into music. In this geometry lesson, students apply the concepts of recursion, pattern and Phi or Golden Ratio to composing and playing music on various instruments. They lesson is co-taught...

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