Students use their singing voices to take turns improvising and creating melodic phrases on a given theme.
A tutorial and demonstration lesson for identifying orchestral instruments using the free FlashQuiz flashcard app for Windows
Students explore and create rhythms through language and body percussion.
Students create arrangements of a melody and listen to recordings contrasting in style and genre.
Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.
Students sing and identify melodic contours.
Students demonstrate expressive qualities of music through movement.
Students explore first and second endings by singing and moving.
Students identify musical form through movement.
Students learn to identify tension and release within a piece of music.
Art has always played an important role throughout the civilized world. Based on the WyomingPBS documentary "Painting the Falls of Yellowstone" the waterfalls of Yellowstone National Park have long captured the imagination of visitors and artists alike. Artists Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt first captured the magnificence and mystique of a few falls in the 1870s which helped establish the park. Over the last several decades, over 250 named and unnamed waterfalls and cascades have been discovered in accessible and backcountry areas of the Park. Their discovery prompted Cody-based and internationally renowned artist M.C. "Mike" Poulsen to try and capture these waterfalls on canvas. His work depicts not only the beauty of the falls but incorporates Native American history and spiritual themes, wildlife and the settlement history of the area. WyomingPBS followed Poulsen over two years providing insight into his vision and creative process. Archaeologists have used art as an indicator for classifying wealth, status, or prominence of individuals, cities, and civilizations. In today's world it does much the same but it can also bring about change as well as persuasion and preservation of ideas and culture. This can be seen in How Art Saved Yellowstone.
Students explore whispering, speaking, singing, and calling voices.
Students read, perform, and compose four-beat rhythmic patterns.
Structure for a lesson plan, with detailed steps to achieve an edited and composited portrait.
Put Yourself in a Safe Place: Engaging the Imagination
A Copyrighted Activity Created by and Re-posted with Permission from
Kristina Marcelli Sargent
https://kristinamarcelli.wordpress.com
Objectives:
The participants will:
1. Focus and visualize on a “safe place”
2. Use art and art elements to create a symbolic place where they feel safe and use this place for visualization and calming
Audience:
This activity was designed for use with children but could easily be adapted to any age of individual who has experienced trauma and wants to symbolically gain a safe place.
The first lesson page of a larger website with Creative Commons-licensed materials for the beginning student. This might particularly be useful to the classroom teacher looking for a quick start and free resources to support a unit and lesson plans for adding an instrumental performance activity to a general music classroom.