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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Protected: Students, here are your composers.
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Games: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Stumbled across this website presented by the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall that has a game based on Benjamin Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”. Check it out here.
Composer Quest Assignment
Hello readers! I am currently substituting long-term for a teacher who is out on sick leave, and one of my more unique classes is music appreciation class. Last week we studied musical genres, this week it will be musical periods/eras. … Continue reading
Posted in 3rd-5th Grade Lessons, Teaching Other Music Classes
Tagged appreciation, assignment, composer, lesson, music, PowerPoint, quest, research, study, test
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Website: Classics For Kids
In doing research for a music appreciation class I stumbled across a great resource, a website called Classics for Kids. I discovered a page with a radio show about different periods of music, and the site also includes information on … Continue reading
Posted in Lesson Plans & Ideas, Teaching Elementary, Teaching Other Music Classes
Tagged audio, children, classics, classics for kids, composer, education, era, feature, games, history, home, lesson, lesson plan, lessons, music, orchestra, radio, show, students, study
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Pop Music as defined by a middle school student.
“Pop Music” refers to a particular style while popular music is a genre that applies to music that was popular at any given point in time, generally distributed for the masses.
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Tagged appreciation, chorus, education, funny, humor, middle school, music, pop music
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Music Appreciation Class Lessons – Timbre, Ensembles, Genres
These are some lessons that I did as a unit on a 4 week school week in a middle school music appreciation class. We discussed the timbres of instruments, different ensembles, and different genres. The recorded music can all be … Continue reading
Posted in Middle School Lessons - non-ensemble, Teaching Other Music Classes
Tagged appreciation, art, art music, brass, composer, decade, education, ensemble, era, families, folk, free, general, genre, instrument, lesson, lesson plans, lessons, middle school, music, plan, pop, popular, power point, string, style, timbre, traditional, woodwind
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Adventures of a Music Teacher 