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5th grade music composition projects for Microsoft Word
Music Tells a Story: A Digital Music Composition Project
Have your students choose between 3 different digital composition projects. The students can also choose to do their project using any Loop-Based Digital Audio Workstation (ie. Soundtrap, Soundation, GarageBand) or using a video editor that has built in sounds (ie. WeVideo or iMovie).Projects include:*1 Minute Sound Story: Retell the events of a well-known story using only a soundtrack and sound effects. Your classmates will have to guess what the story is just by listening.*3 Ghosts: Create
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4th - 9th
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Songwriting Project
This song writing project has been a hit with my middle school choir classes for the past couple of years! They love getting creative and sharing their songs with the class. I've found it takes around 3 weeks of class time for students to plan, create, rehearse, and present their work, although your experience may be different.Students are given the choice of creating a parody song (using karaoke backing tracks from YouTube as accompaniment) or an original song (using their own instrumental acc
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5th - 12th
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Using iPads, garage band, and iMovie to make a commercial
This lesson uses iPads and the apps Garage Band and iMovie to create commercials. This is a great way to incorporate technology into your classroom and engage your students in learning. This lesson can be used in a music classroom to emphasis the importance of music in commercials to connect with the consumer. It can also be used in a language arts or English classroom to promote proper writing skills with the use of script writing.
A basic knowledge of Garage Band and iMovie is needed for thi
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5th - 7th
Leitmotif Project
A project for general music students about Leitmotif. In this project, students will create 2 characters and a basic story outline. Then, using BandLab (or Chrome Music Lab - your choice!) they will choose a sound to represent each character. They will compose a song using the 2 sounds for their 2 characters.
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4th - 12th
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Composer Projects - Movie Music Composers & In the Hall of the Mountain King
These projects are perfect to incorporate into your composers unit! After teaching your students about various composers, have them dive into these projects that require them to listen to classical music and learn about new composers.In this Composer Projects download, you will find two projects:1) Composers at the MoviesThis project will prompt students to learn about composers of the movies! So often, composer units center around the greats such as Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. But, so often, we
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5th - 8th
Music Copyright Law Project
This is a Popular Music Copyright Unit Project. This worksheet can be paired with the Popular Music Copyright PowerPoint and Music Copyright worksheet.The Popular Music unit provides examples that have gone through Copy-Right Court Cases. This includes, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, Sam Smith, Tom Petty, Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, etc. Youtube examples are appropriate for Middle School and High School grade levels. This project allows students to consider music copyright laws, and allows them to create
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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JTRD Songs'n'Tails Chapter 7: Chapter 7: Two Wolves and a Rooster
Chapter 7: Two Wolves and a RoosterIn this episode, we discover the inspiration behind a song, the works of Indigenous artist, Shelley Niro, and paint a picture to Pilot of Change. Jake meets a buffalo and makes a loco friend who teaches him a little ditty about friends. please note: students will need their art supplies ( coloring paper, crayons, or markers/paints)included: lyric sheet to Tia and Tommy's song Two Wolves for print out or sharing
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3rd - 6th
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Movie Music Composition Project
This project is sure to be a hit in your general music or music appreciation class! Students will use a music creation software like Edu Bandlab, Garage Band, etc. to create a movie soundtrack. Includes a breakdown of points and specific requirements for the project.
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5th - 12th
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Composer Research - Choir Concert Make Up Assignment
A composer research project that I used to a choir concert make up assignment. Student scan complete this is research paper or PowerPoint format.
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5th - 12th
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Also included in:Â Composer Research - Choir Concert Make Up Bundle
Soundtrack Of Your Life Project
Soundtrack Of Your Life project is a great activity for students to explore and find songs that have important value in their life. Students pick five songs and explain their history behind the song and how it has influenced their life. My students have really enjoyed this project, because they can be creative and really think about their favorite songs. I have students present their songs and stories to the class.
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Middle/High School Solfege Group Project for Choir
This project is a student-led group activity. In a small group, the students will pick a song that they have access to & create a solfege version to demonstrate to the class.This lesson plan includes national standards, activity directions, a grading rubric, and technology resources to help students.
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5th - 12th
Improvisatory Performance Groups: Mind Map/Bubble Map Performance Structure
This product works well with a general music class. I used it for a last period class in which students worked on wrting lyrics, drumming and soundtrap app to write songs. These lessons work with a three bubble map or a mind map: bubble one is the into of one patter; bubble two has a different pattern with words whie the third and last bubble is improvisatory. Students work in improvising as well. After all has been rehearsed, this curriculum is designed to focus on accountability and perform
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4th - 12th
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Music Era Project
This document includes directions and a graphic organizer for research for a music era project. I usually have my students pick eras beginning with medieval music and allow them to pick eras all the way up to 90s grunge. It's really open, but these directions guide students to think about what styles led to this music era along with what was going on in society at the time.
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5th - 8th
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Solfege Composition- Treble Clef, Key of F
Students compose an 8 measure melody in the key of F using known solfege and rhythm values. I did this activity over 2 days, 15 minutes each day. I then selected easily-singable compositions to use as sight-reading practice.
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5th - 9th
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Music Math "Reading Rhythm" Lesson #1 ~ Perfect for the Common Core!
Please enjoy my first lesson incorporating Music, Math, Reading, Rhythms in a Perfect combination for the Common Core Curriculum! Students will read the word in the first column, the "Reading Rhythm" Word. Next, they must figure out how many Syllables the word has. Finding the correct music notes and rhythm is the next challenge. The finale of the project is writing the word under the correct rhythm. I trust my new lesson will be a favorite for the boys due to the Sports Words! And yes, ou
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2nd - 8th
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Hand Drumming Composition Project
A project good for older elementary or middle school. I used this as a final project for a Hand Drumming unit I did for 7th grade. This would be good if your class was working on bucket drumming or world music units.
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5th - 8th
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Ukulele Composing with C, F, Am & G Chords
Students can use this guide to compose their very own ukulele song using the C, F, AM, and G chords. It's a great way to show understanding of rhythm, technique, and chords.
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4th - 8th
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Force and Motion Vocabulary Project
This project outline gives students 2 options for completing a vocabulary project. Both projects use the arts as a way to demonstrate knowledge of these vocabulary words. A fun and creative way to turn vocabulary engaging!
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2nd - 5th
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Soundwalk Activity - Perfect for Spring/Summer!
Do you want your music students to explore and listen carefully to the sounds which surround them everyday? Why not take them on a soundwalk? All you have to do is design a route for your soundwalk and lead your students silently through one or more locations so that they can critically listen to and differentiate various sounds. Includes:- 1-page profile of Canadian composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp, the inventor of the soundwalk- 1 sheet where students can draw the sounds they
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4th - 8th
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General Music Thunderstorm Project
This shows kids what it is like to be part of an orchestra even though they do not play an instrument. Using common items, they will perform a virtual thunderstorm for the class. Great with grade 6 or 7.
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5th - 8th
Living Room Concert (Composing)
We have learned a lot from teaching online and from our homes, especially as music teachers. Whether you are teaching online often or you are wanting to do something different for your students, this might be the perfect product to change things up while still working diligently on music. Have your students create a program, write music and present their work in the comfort of their living room.This works for any musician!This project is intended to be a long-term assignment (for me, it was an e
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4th - 12th
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Four Square Composing and Arranging
Simple composition lesson that can be used to teach rhythmic compositions and arranging. Students will work individually and as part of a group. This lesson is written for fourth grade but I have done simplified versions with students in 2nd grade. Lesson is in doc format so that you may update it to the needs of your class. Written for two classes, but can be used in three or four depending on class time.
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2nd - 6th
12 Bar Blues Project
Twelve Bar Blues Project! This is a great project to pair with your jazz or blues lesson. Your students will be writing four verses of their very own blues song.While this doesn't take too many classes, students will have a blues song ready to sing in no time!This lesson is great to talk about musical form. It also provides multiple interdisciplinary opportunities such as historical events, rhyme schemes and more.
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4th - 7th
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