This resource was created by Megan Reppert, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

Für unseren gemeinsamen Projektsong schrieben die Schüler der einzelnen Länder die Strophen in ihren Landessprachen. Sie erzählen dabei von aktuellen Problemen, die sie in ihren Ländern sehen.
In der Bridge und dem Refrain (siehe Leadsheet unten) wird dann ein positiver Blick in die Zukunft gerichtet - wir alle können etwas anpacken und uns für eine bessere Welt einsetzen!

Der Projektsong wurde beim Besuch in Arta/Griechenland mit allen Schülern und Orchester eingeprobt und am letzten Abend in der Stadthalle von Arta aufgeführt.

Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a concert oboist, this open access book studies a number of foundational issues in the philosophy of music, such as musical meaning and expression, musical ontology and the existence of the musical work, the relation between music and language, and the phenomenology of music. The book surveys the development of Western classical music from the Baroque era through to the 20th century, both from the perspective of contemporary Lithuanian philosophers such as Girnius, Maceina, Šliogeris, and Jackūnas, and 20th century European philosophy. In addition to discussing key questions in the philosophy of music, the book also analyses technical musical terms such as articulation, phrasing, and rhythm.

Every Good Boy Does Fine, by John Riggio, is another in the continuing series of songs that teach musical concepts. In this fun music video, animated by Bill Belongia, Piggy the pig helps teach the names of the lines of the treble clef through the use of mnemonics.

Description Subject: General MusicGrade: 1st grade, 2nd gradeOverview: Students will explore dynamics in music through listening, singing, and moving.Standards: South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards for General Music ProficiencyAnchor Standard 6: I can analyze music.Benchmark GM.R NM.6- I can identify the elements of music.Indicator- GM.R NM 6.1- I can identify changes in dynamics, tempo, and rhythm.Material type: Lesson plan, activity/lab, assessment, rubric 

Description Subject: General MusicGrade: 1st grade, 2nd gradeOverview: Students will explore dynamics in music through listening, singing, and moving.Standards: South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Standards for General Music ProficiencyAnchor Standard 6: I can analyze music.Benchmark GM.R NM.6- I can identify the elements of music.Indicator- GM.R NM 6.1- I can identify changes in dynamics, tempo, and rhythm.Material type: Lesson plan, activity/lab, assessment, rubric 

Iowa Heritage Digital Collections is a resource for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and anyone else interested in the people, places and institutions of Iowa. The site provides free access to digital collections from a variety of Iowa cultural institutions.

This website is a collection of Iowa History resources for educators, teachers, historians, and anyone interested in Iowa and its people, culture and places. It provides free access to digital collections from Iowa cultural institutions

This clever song, by Teresa Jennings, helps young music students learn and remember the spaces on the treble clef. This fun video, animated by Bill Belongia, is a great music teaching tool.

Introductory Materials for a group beginning guitar class.

-How to sit and hold the guitar
-General Right Hand and Left Hand positioning

This activity allows novice level students to capture family member vocabulary while listening to a song. Attached lyrics can be used as a clos activity. This aligns with novice low to mid interpretive listening proficiency goals.

In this lesson students will learn terms that describe music, they will move to music, and express themselves with paint while listening to music.

This is a multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years old, the tunes represent the music and evoke the history and spirit of Virginia's Appalachian frontier. Many of the tunes have passed back into circulation during the fiddling revival of the later twentieth century. This online collection incorporates 184 original sound recordings, 19 pages of fieldnotes, and 69 musical transcriptions with descriptive notes on tune histories and musical features; an illustrated essay about Reed's life, art, and influence; a list of related publications; and a glossary of musical terms.

For this project, students will be adding music in to a silent film.  

The First Note music curriculum is made up of 30 complete multi-cultural lessons broken down into 4-5 separate videos for each lesson. The program incorporates proven methods of music instruction developed by Carl Orff (Orff Schulwerk), Emile Jacques Dalcroze, Zoltan Kodaly and others. Video teaching tips are also included.

The program is a standards-based music program for use in Kindergarten and 1st Grade classrooms. Best of all, it's designed to be facilitated by all K-1 school teachers, and as an aid to all music instructors.

Forte Piano, by Teresa Jennings, is another in her series of songs that teach musical concepts. This fun music video, animated by Bill Belongia, really reinforces the concepts

Sight reading music can be a daunting endeavor for aspiring, and even experienced, musicians. Foundational Sight Singing was created to provide a systematic approach to learn to read, hear and perform music. The ordered presentation of both melodies and rhythms in this text helps students develop accuracy and fluency in sight singing which is a fundamental skill for all musicians. It is a text for developing proficiency in reading and sight singing that can be used in a variety of contexts from individual practice to choral or instrumental ensemble rehearsals to college ear training courses. Multiple exercises are provided for drilling and practice at each level throughout the text to grow the students’ fluency and proficiency in reading and performing pitch and rhythm. This text will help students build a solid foundation upon which they can establish mastery.

This resource was created by Judy Prewett, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

The American civil rights movement incorporated a variety of cultural elements in their pursuit of political and legal equality under law. This lesson will highlight the role of music as a major influence through the use of audio recordings, photographs, and primary documents. Students will participate in their own oral history, examine lyrics, and work with case studies such as the Freedom Rides to gain an appreciation of how music influenced the early 1960s.

In this activity students will practice their listening comprehension skills by listening to popular French music. They will also practice sharing their opinions regarding music and describing the general message of a song.