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Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and High School Keyboard Standard 5E

Added: Jun 10, 2008 - View

Students will sightread and play a simple melody with block-chord accompaniment comparable in difficulty to a piece that may be found in a Level 2 piano methods book. 

The Blues, Langston Hughes, and Poetry

Added: Jun 10, 2008 - View

This lesson explores the connection of music with poetry which dates back to the ancient Greek civilization.  It also takes a look at the history of the "Blues" within the social movement known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Call and Response Style in African Music

Added: Jun 6, 2008 - View

Students will listen to a song that demonstrates the call and response style, and will identify the "call" and "response" in the song.  Students will sing the response, and identify the phrase as a type of ostinato.  Students will play the rhythm of the ostinato on small percussion instruments, and/or play the response on recorders.

Bumm - A New System for Chanting in 6/8 Meter

Added: Jun 5, 2008 - View

This is a new way I have developed for students to chant the rhythm syllables in 6/8 meter, in order to truly distinguish its difference from the more common meters where a quarter-note receives one beat (the traditional "ta" and "ti-ti" method of chanting that most elementary music classrooms adopt).Wtth that in mind, here are the activities that students will participate in for these lessons: Students will learn a system of chanting to distinguish 6/8 compound meter from 4/4 common meterStudents will sing songs in 6/8 meterStudents will listen to selections in 6/8 meterStudents will perform rhythm patterns in 6/8 meter on instrumentsStudents will manipulate pattern-blocks to build measures in 6/8 meter

Pentatonic Participation

Added: Jun 5, 2008 - View

·     Students will sing songs using the tones of thepentatonic scale·     Students will manipulate patterns to link themin sequence to notate a familiar song “Button You Must Wander”·     Students will recognize pentatonic patterns inthe song “Eliza Jane”

Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and High School Keyboard Standard 5D

Added: Jun 5, 2008 - View

Students will play folk melodies and will notate melodic changes needed to play these melodies based on previously learned scale types (for example, major, minor, blues, whole-tone, and pentatonic). 

Canoe Round

Added: Jun 5, 2008 - View

·     Students will sing a song using the tones of thela-pentatonic scale·     Students will perform rhythmic ostinato patternson drums and pitched instruments (chord tones)·     Students will sing a simple 2-part round with amelodic ostinato·     Students will manipulate patterns to link themin sequence to notate a familiar song “Canoe Round”

Theme and Variation

Added: Jun 5, 2008 - View

·     Students will listen to selections in theme andvariation form·     Students will identify the elements of musicthat were changed to create variations, using correct musical terminology·     Students will create variations on a simpletheme using various sound sources

SATB Exploration

Added: Jun 5, 2008 - View

·     Students will listen to selections featuringSATB vocals·     Students will perform an SATB ostinato patternto accompany a melody played on recorders·     Students will identify other sound sources thatfollow the pattern of SATB voicing (traditional instrumentation, bodypercussion, found sounds)·     Students will perform patterns of SATB voicingon various sound sources

Recorder Fun with AGE

Added: Jun 5, 2008 - View

·     Students will perform tones A-G-E on recorders·     Students will improvise patterns using tonesA-G-E·     Students will read notation for tones A-G-E

Diplomatic Immunity Jazz Charts

Added: Jun 5, 2008 - View

While most consider our two main exports to be freedom and democracy, America has also exported a treasure that many people overlook. Created in this nation and instilled with freedom of expression and democratic ideals, jazz is America's gift, a perfect musical description of our way of life. Broadcasting great Willis Conover once called jazz "the music of freedom," and his description still holds true.

John's Blue Waltz Jazz Charts

Added: Jun 4, 2008 - View

While most consider our two main exports to be freedom and democracy, America has also exported a treasure that many people overlook. Created in this nation and instilled with freedom of expression and democratic ideals, jazz is America's gift, a perfect musical description of our way of life. Broadcasting great Willis Conover once called jazz "the music of freedom," and his description still holds true.

Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and High School Keyboard Standard 5B

Added: Jun 4, 2008 - View

Students will sightread and aurally identify simple melodic fragments written in the treble and bass clefs. 

Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and High School Keyboard Standard 5A

Added: Jun 3, 2008 - View

Students will read, aurally identify, and perform non-pitched rhythmic lines consisting of whole, half, and quarter notes written in 4/4 meter signature. 

Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and High School Keyboard Standard 4C

Added: Jun 2, 2008 - View

Using the pentatonic scale and layered ostinatos, students will create and conduct keyboard ensemble compositions. 

Five Little Ducks

Added: May 30, 2008 - View

This is a lesson which uses homemade puppets to sing and tell the story of the five little ducks.

Down By the Bay

Added: May 30, 2008 - View

This is a 2-part lesson used with Pre-K and Kindergarten.  They learn to sing a song, make original verses and illustrate them.

Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and High School Keyboard Standard 3B

Added: May 30, 2008 - View

Students will identify familiar melodies as either major or pentatonic after playing them by ear and will improvise a rhythmic or melodic variation based on one of the melodies. 

Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and High School Keyboard Standard 3A

Added: May 30, 2008 - View

Students will improvise a chordal (block- or broken-chord)accompaniment to a simple melody.

Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and High School Keyboard Standard 2E

Added: May 30, 2008 - View

Students will compare and contrast a variety of musicalgenres from a late elementary piano method book and perform them withexpression and technical accuracy on the keyboard.