Improvising with Our Voices
(View Complete Item Description)Students use their singing voices to take turns improvising and creating melodic phrases on a given theme.
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The Language of Rhythm
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore and create rhythms through language and body percussion.
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Listening for Contrasts in Genre
(View Complete Item Description)Students create arrangements of a melody and listen to recordings contrasting in style and genre.
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Listening for Styles and Genre
(View Complete Item Description)Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
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Moving Melodies
(View Complete Item Description)Students sing and identify melodic contours.
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Musical Expression Through Movement
(View Complete Item Description)Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
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Musical Mapping—First and Second Endings
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore first and second endings by singing and moving.
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Musical Patterns
(View Complete Item Description)Students identify musical form through movement.
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Musical Tension and Release
(View Complete Item Description)Students learn to identify tension and release within a piece of music.
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Performing and Arranging Using Our Voices
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
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Performing and Composing Four-Beat Patterns
(View Complete Item Description)Students read, perform, and compose four-beat rhythmic patterns.
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Put Your Seat on the Beat
(View Complete Item Description)Students perform and create rhythmic patterns using their bodies.
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Quartet Chief
(View Complete Item Description)Students form quartets to explore roles in an ensemble.
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Rhythms from Around the World
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore a variety of rhythms from around the world.
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Round Around The Room Mystery
(View Complete Item Description)Students identify phrases in a known song and create new patterns of music.
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Staff Hopscotch
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore relative pitch through listening and movement.
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Telling a Story with Music
(View Complete Item Description)Students use pitch to explore the characters in a story.
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Theme and Variation
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore different ways to change a simple sentence and melody to understand the concept of theme and variation.
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Using Our Voices to Improvise
(View Complete Item Description)Students create nonsense syllables and improvise on a familiar or created melody.
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We've Got the Blues
(View Complete Item Description)By listening to and looking at the qualities of various scales, students learn to identify the differences between the major, minor, and blues scales.
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