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Middle school music composition resources for ActiveInspire Flipchart
Ostinato and Dave Brubeck's "Unsquare Dance"
Students will move and perform to the classic Jazz tune by Dave Brubeck. They learn the ostinato and clap and march to the ostinato in a fun circle dance and can also play along with the bass line. Essential and ELA questions are provided to connect to literacy.
A follow-up lesson has the students composing their own ostinati and performing for their peers. A Common Core classic!
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4th - 7th
16 beat rhythm notation FlipChart
This FlipChart is a great resource for quick rhythm writing with your class! Uncover each rhythm from under its box (great review!) and then drag each rhythm to sit on its beat bar above. Choose which page of the FlipChart to be used based on where your students are in their curriculum. For ta/titi/rest there is also an 8 beat notation page for shorter songs and poems.
Have students quickly notate a song they know or have one prepared for them for rhythm reading!
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K - 6th
Sonata Allegro Form and Mozart's Symphony No. 40
This lesson explores Sonata Allegro Form through Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G-Minor. Students use movement activities to make connections with the three sections of the form. A Biography of Mozart is included with ELA questions. (Please note that you need to have your own recording of the piece. Copyright infringement prevents embedding the music into the lesson.)
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Grades:
6th - 9th
Rhythm Reading - 1ST-6TH GRADES - Flipchart
Interactive Rhythm Pattern Reading for grades 3-6Interactive Drums InstrumentInteractive Game / Music Theory Assessment Flipchart
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Grades:
1st - 6th
Dictation Chart
ActivInspire page created for dictation purposes. Has just about every possible thing you need for rhythm and melodic dictation (treble clef).
You must have musisync font for this flip chart to work. You can get it at http://www.fontspace.com/robert-allgeyer/musisync.
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2nd - 8th
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Ostinato and O Fortuna
Students will love learning about ostinati through the vibrant O Fortuna by Carl Orff. Students perform along with the ostinato using body percussio, as well as pitched percussion. A follow-up composition activity follows in this easy to use and engaging lesson that has a proven track record! (Please note that the score is in 6/4. I have rearranged it to 3/4 for ease of performance.)(The recording is not included due to copyright infringement. Please feel free to embed your own copy of the piece
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5th - 8th
The Little Fugue of Johann Sebastian Bach
Students learn the Art of the Fugue in this colorful and fun lesson that incorporates Dalcrose, instrumental performance, and active listening. The "Little Fugue" in G-Minor is explored with two listening maps and performance activities that coincide with the entrances of the subject. Other fugue suggestions are added on the last page for additional listening. A biography of J.S. Bach's life and work is also included.
Please note that this is an ActivInspire lesson and that the Youtube links a
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4th - 7th
Teaching Minor Keys Through Recorder: Halloween Song
This product is an ActivInspire flipchart that is a complete lesson, to be used to teach a song in a minor key. This song is easily played on recorder by beginning to intermediate students. Included in the flipchart: a fingering chart, song with notation, and a space to compose original lyrics to this song. Use this lesson to also teach composition, by allowing your students to create original Halloween or "spooky" lyrics to this song.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attrib
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
Build a Measure Flipchart
For use with Promethean or Smart boards, this is a quick chart to help students learn how to build a 4 beat measure. Also helps them easily understand that each beat needs to be filled with something. At the bottom, there are various notes that can be dragged and dropped onto the 4 beat pattern area, and can be used for virtually anything in the music classroom.
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
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