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We found 35 resources with the concept music analysis

Reflection: The Message behind the Music Lesson Plan

Reflection: The Message behind the Music

New ReviewMusic lyrics offer messages. Some lyrics offer positive messages, some negative, some reflective, some explosive. Class members investigate the powerful messages in the lyrics of popular rap songs by first reading one student's essay on...

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Math with Jake: Inverse Relationships Video

Math with Jake: Inverse Relationships

3 mins 6th - 8th

New ReviewUse math to become pitch perfect. Music incorporates various aspects of mathematics. A musician/composer demonstrates the inverse relationship between the length of string and the ratio of the notes in a delightful video. The musician...

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Ray Charles and Country Music Lesson Plan

Ray Charles and Country Music

CCSS: Adaptable

New ReviewRay Charles used the pain and adversity from his life to influence an entire genre of American music. Learn about the musician's daily life, struggles and success, and powerful musical style with a thorough resource.

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Music

CCSS: Adaptable

Music is a universal pleasure, but writing about it can be a little trickier. An informative handout discusses common types of music writing assignments that one might encounter in a college-level course. Individuals read about musical...

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Let's Explore! Lesson Plan

Let's Explore!

Explore the world through music with two lessons that bring focus to four composers—Gabriela Lena Frank, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Bedrř˘ich Smetana, and Mason Bates. After listening to musical pieces and viewing informative videos, scholars...

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History and Musical Aesthetics Lesson Plan

History and Musical Aesthetics

What are the musical elements that characterize a school's fight song or its alma mater? Class members listen to examples of fight songs and alma maters from various schools, play a listening game, and then create a list of the...

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Our School Song Lesson Plan

Our School Song

CCSS: Adaptable

Show your school spirit! Class members use instruments or sing along and employ what they have learned in the two previous lessons to perform their school's songs.

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Songwriting Skills

Songwriting Skills

Check out these detailed lessons using popular music across genres to explain songwriting concepts such as figurative language, elaboration, and tone. Learners examine lyrics to the songs from different musical genres and practice putting the skills into practice. These nine resources could easily be used with a poetry writing focus as well, and everything you need is here!

Born in the U.S.A: Music as Political Protest Activities & Project

Born in the U.S.A: Music as Political Protest

CCSS: Adaptable

Though often used in shows of patriotism, Bruce Springsteen's 1985 song "Born in the U.S.A." is critical of America's role in the Vietnam war and its treatment of American veterans. High schoolers analyze the song's lyrics in an activity...

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Listening for History: Using Jazz Music as a Primary Source Professional Document

Listening for History: Using Jazz Music as a Primary Source

CCSS: Adaptable

Designed as a teacher resource, a packet identifies resources and approaches instructors can use to incorporate jazz into their history classes. Materials are identified by historical era, from the roots of jazz prior to World War I to...

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"Mars" from The Planets Lesson Plan

"Mars" from The Planets

CCSS: Adaptable

Gustav Holst's The Planets provide young musicians an opportunity to examine how composers can create a suite: a collection of smaller pieces grouped to explore a single topic. After listening to "Jupiter," they examine "Mars" in detail,...

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Why Should You Listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"? Video

Why Should You Listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"?

4 mins 7th - 12th

While many of your class members may find the opening strands of "The Four Seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi familiar, few may know of the rich history of this program music. Viewers not only listen to portions of the music from each season,...

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Tears of Joy Theatre Presents Anansi the Spider Lesson Plan

Tears of Joy Theatre Presents Anansi the Spider

CCSS: Adaptable

Accompany the African folktale, Anansi the Spider, with a collection of five lessons, each equipped with supplemental activities. Lessons offer multidisciplinary reinforcement in English language arts, social studies, science, and arts...

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Sound Uncovered App

Sound Uncovered

CCSS: Adaptable

Get your pupils ready for a mind-blowing, enlightening experience with Sound Uncovered, an interactive book which introduces us to the incredible world of sound and the mind's ear. Did you know that there is an entire branch of...

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Popular Music Culture Lesson Plan

Popular Music Culture

Kids think about pop music and pop culture as they analyze both. They group up and write a review of a favorite pop singer or song for the school paper. They discuss pop music as a class and then analyze a song for specific music elements.

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19th & 20th Century Composers: Exoticism Lesson Plan

19th & 20th Century Composers: Exoticism

VH1 Music Studio has put out another great lesson that incorporates analysis, compare/contrast, and musical terminology. Kids will listen to the song "Habanera" considering the use of specific instruments in evoking a sense of location....

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GCSE Notes 2000: Classical Music Lesson Plan

GCSE Notes 2000: Classical Music

Classical period music is defined by its characteristics and distinctive sound. A set of notes assists upper graders in recalling and analyzing music from the classical period based on musical terminology. An example analysis of Eine...

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Getting the Meaning in Pop Music Lesson Plan

Getting the Meaning in Pop Music

Critical thinkers compare the impact of visual versus aural perception in how they comprehend artistic intent. They consider the meaning of a set of pop lyrics first by reading them, then by listening to them orally, and finally viewing...

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Comparing Two Improvisations Graphic Organizer

Comparing Two Improvisations

Jazz improvisation can be difficult to listen to for some music enthusiasts, however there are patterns and characteristics that can be analyzed. They use this Venn diagram to aid them in comparing two improvisational pieces, where they...

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"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" Worksheet

"Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"

Mozart was an amazing composer and "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" was one of his best-loved orchestral pieces. This handout provides a brief description of the instruments for which it was written, and how each section and part should be...

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The Virtuoso Phenomenon Worksheet

The Virtuoso Phenomenon

After reading the New York Times article "Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen," learners answer eight who, what, when, where, and why questions. They post their answers on the New York Times Education Blog. A fun way to get learners...

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The Sorcerer's Apprentice: 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons Lesson Plan

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons

Upper graders view the animated short, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and analyze how the music score was chosen to express the scene. They create an animation as they listen to a classical recording to experience the connection between...

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Music and Animation: 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons Lesson Plan

Music and Animation: 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons

Music has been used to convey thoughts, feelings, and the human condition for thousands of years. Your class will analyze several songs hear in the animated classic, "Charlie Brown." They will listen to several jazz pieces from the show,...

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Music in Words Lesson Plan

Music in Words

Your class can build strong, well-represented opinions about the music they hear. They listen to, and share thoughts about, a piece of classical music. Then they write a piece of music or a poem, and analyze their peers' work and their...

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