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Music Curriculum for Classroom use, teachers suggested resources for kindergarten through High School.
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#ORFF Jimmy Fallon, Adele & The Roots Sing "Hello" (w/Classroom Instruments)
INTERDISCIPLINARY
NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOLKSONG REPOSITORY
YOU CAN TEACH HISTORY THROUGH SONG
WHY WE TEACH MUSIC
Music is scientific.
It is precise, specific, and demands accurate acoustics. A
conductor's score is a complex chart that indicates frequency,
intensity, volume, melody, and harmony, all at once and with the
most exact control of time.
Music is mathematical.
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions
that must be calculated, interpreted, and applied instantaneously.
Music is foreign language.
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French, and notation is
a highly developed kind of shorthand based on symbols that represent
ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal
language known.
Music is history.
It reflects the environment and times of its creation, including the
cultural and social values.
Music is physical education.
It requires exceptional coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips,
cheeks, and facial muscles. It also takes extraordinary control of
the diaphragm, which in turns uses the back, stomach, and chest
muscles.
Music is philosophy.
It demands research and develops insight and perspective.
Music is art.
It allows a human being to take dry, boring, and often difficult
techniques and use them to create emotion.
Music is the human experience.
Music pieces are as complex and varied as life itself. Music
inspires thought, reflection and emotion-- much like human relations
do. Rhythm and tone simulate moods-- such as joy, sorrow or anger.
Music relates to us the stories of human experience. We do not teach
music because we expect you to major in music or become a
professional musician. Nor do we teach music because we expect you
to play or sing all your life (although you might).
We teach music so you will have more compassion.
We teach music so you can be fully human.
HOLIDAY Music
High School Traditional Music Curriculum
Saline Fiddlers
are the Saline, Michigan teaches who perform bluegrass as a band
class.
From the Top
The website for a humorous radio program showcasing the talents of
young musicians (of pre-college age) from around the U.S. The site
features a show archive, background about performers, listening
guides, photo galleries, and more. National Public Radio (NPR)
distributes the show, which is made possible through grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Cultural
Council.
IBMA Bluegrass in the Schools program and manual
Teoria
Gaining a basic understanding of how music is composed and
subsequently analyzed and performed. Take online tutorials, complete
exercises, and read articles about music all in the same place. In
the Tutorials area, visitors will learn about how to read music and
how to identify different chords, intervals, and harmonic functions.
Moving along, the Exercises area lets visitors test their mettle
with interactive materials that will take them through the world of
key signatures, jazz, and clef reading. Finally, the site also has a
Reference area which provides answers to such questions as What is a
chord? along with offering a detailed explication of the bits and
pieces of information that can be found in a bar of music.
LEARN TO PLAY GUITAR
Educational CyberPlayGround: Funk Brother Joe Messina author of
Giant Steps
"Joe played
guitar
for Berry Gordy's Hitsville U.S.A ... others.*** Joe started playing
guitar
at the age of thirteen, taking ... 88 issue of "
Guitar
Player" magazine.
Educational CyberPlayGround: Joe Messina Sends His Personal
Message
also applied this system to my
guitar
playing, which gave me a different perspective to playing.
Joel Bernstein - Musician, Archivist
During High School Joel studied
guitar
with
Tossi Aaron
- Author, Singer, Dancer, Publisher.
National Children's Folksong Repository
Go grab the free folksongs see Ellis and Orff
Take Lessons online with Phil Shaperio
Online Guitar Archive from June 14 1992
Recipe for homemade boomwhackers
1. Get golf club tubes. (They're black plastic tubes about 36 inches
long with a diameter of about 1-1/8 inches.) You can get them at
Wal-Mart for about 64 cents each.
2. It is important to have a different color for each note to make
It easier to recognize each length. Hardware stores often sell
packages of varied colored tapes. I have also used colored duck tape
that works well and is very durable.
3. Cut the golf tubes with a paper cutter. You may also use a radial
arm saw, very sharp scissors (I never had much luck with scissors),
or a hacksaw. I found a good small saw at Home Depot. It was about
$10.00. The paper cutter works the best. Wrap wide colored tape on
ends - a different color for each note. On the C's, I had a wide
strip (4") for the low C and a narrow red (1 or 2") for the high C.
I wrote the name of the note on the tape in permanent pen. Here are
the lengths:
C (narrow red) 11 7/8"
A (purple) 14 1/4"
G (dark green) 16 1/2" or 16 1/8"
E (yellow) 19 1/2"
D (orange) 21 7/8"
C (wide red) 24 5/8" or 24 3/4"
F (light green) 18 1/4"
B (fuchsia) 12 3/4"
Two G's can be cut from one tube (with at the most, 1 inch of waste)
D and high C can be cut from one tube (exactly)
E and A can be cut from the same tube (exactly)
F and B can be cut from the same tube
Low C takes one tube and the other part is waste.
It is important to use the exact colors if you use the Boomwhackers
Games CD and some of the other Boomwhackers books. They tell what
color Boomwhackers to use when.
I have found purple duck tape at Wal-Mart, a variety pack at Lowes,
and pink fuscia flamingo tape at Ace Hardware. Recently I saw
orange, lime green and yellow at Walmart. Ive also seen colored duck
tape at Big Lots. ~ by Denise Arthurs