Create A Playlist All About You For a long time, people (young people especially!) have been creating their own musical playlists to share and connect with their friends and communities around them. Thanks to digital media and software, it’s now easier than ever for people to create their own playlists. Help your students create their […]
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Opera Parts Puzzle What does it take to stage an opera? Cutout and put together this puzzle to find out. And if you haven’t watched the opera conducting video yet with your students, now is a great time!
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Plan an Arts Event It’s time to plan a musical event! Follow these steps and make some decisions around the basics of what you need to think of when planning an event. Fill out your worksheet as you go. Have student think through the following questions. Below each question are some suggested answers, but encourage
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Ragtime Dance Ragtime music is a forerunner of jazz music and was popular around 1900. It grew from African American musical traditions, combining the jig and march styles commonly performed by African American bands. Ragtime became immensely popular as a musical style and a dance. It is called ragtime because of its syncopated, or ragged,
Peter and the Wolf We encourage you to first have your students watch or listen to a performance of Peter and the Wolf. We like this one quite a bit: Act It Out Next, bring the story to life! Here are different scenes from the story that students can act out. You can find these
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Music Mind Maps Write the name of the piece and the composer in the center of the worksheet. In the first branch out of circles (the purple circles) write down specific program elements that the music is trying to portray. To use Vivaldi’s Winter from The Four Seasons as an example, you might choose to
Program Music Deep Dive During this activity, you’ll dive deeper into Vivaldi’s Winter from The Four Seasons. Read the poem this piece is based on. I. Allegro non molto–Frozen and trembling in the icy snow,In the severe blast of the horrible wind,As we run, we constantly stamp our feet,And our teeth chatter in the cold.II.
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Music Listening Worksheet Have students complete this worksheet as they listen to a piece of music. It will help them engage in both how the music makes them feel as well as with what is happening in the music, building the bridge between musical devices and the moods they can create.
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