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Can You Compose?
Fourth graders investigate musical notes. In this music instructional activity, 4th graders compose a short song while clapping the rhythm and singing the syllables using the appropriate notes or rests.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces--2
In this music worksheet, students label the bass clef notes in 5 music staffs. Students observe that there are notes both on the lines and the spaces and put the correct letter name under each note. There is no information on the page.
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Treble Clef Spaces --2
In this music instructional activity, students examine 6 staffs of music with notes in the treble clef on the spaces only. There are examples on the page. Students write the letter names of the notes.
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Treble Clef Lines
In this music worksheet, students name four treble clef lines. As an example, the first treble clef line is already filled out.
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Treble Clef Lines 1
In this music worksheet, students name four treble clef lines. As an example, the first treble clef line is already labeled for the students.
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Name the Note- 2
In this musical notation worksheet, student name the bass clef notes using the lines that are placed below them They name 6 notes in each of 4 lines.
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Music Activity at Family Math Night
Young scholars work with a family member in placing all of the music notes on a staff board. They try to match the rhythm on the rhythm board and show their completed song to the teacher.
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Bass Clef Lines and Spaces--3
In this music worksheet, students label notes in the bass clef lines and spaces with the correct letter names. There are no examples on the page; prior knowledge is assumed.
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Name the Note--1
In this name the note worksheet, students, after being shown how to read five bass clef notes, read and decide what the next twenty nine notes are on four bars of music.
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Treble Clef Lines and Spaces
In this music worksheet, students name five treble clef lines and spaces. Each of the five lines contain from six to eight lines.
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How Do I Measure Up? (Intermediate)
Fifth graders compare the relationship between meter in music and measurement in math. They practice sightreading music by determining the number of beats per measure, clapping and counting the rhythm.
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Music Mania
In this music instructional activity, students identify and locate vocabulary terms related to basic music. There are 23 words located in the puzzle.
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Intervals!
In this music intervals worksheet, students learn the exact size of an interval by counting the number of notes from the first to last. Students write seconds up and down from the printed note in the treble and bass clef. Students label...
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Bass Clef Lines--3
In this bass clef lines activity, students, after being shown how to read five bass clef notes, decide what the next thirty notes are and place their answers on the lines provided.
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Project-Based Songwriting
Project-based learning in a music theory class? Take note. Young songwriters compose, record, copyright, and promote their original songs. They even design their own CD cover.
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Note Names & Piano Games
Young scholars identify letter names of notes, demonstrate simple rhythms, and use that knowledge to play short melodic phrases using the educational software called BugBand. Handouts and a quiz to assess student achievement are included.
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Unscramble the Letters - Music Terms
Students receive a worksheet on music terms. As a class, they unscramble a couple before attempt them on their own. They then write the meaning of each to research the meaning of the musical terms.
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Music and Technology
Third graders practice reading rhythm patterns with different types of notes and meters. Using a counting system, they perform a sight reading exercise and take notes when needed. They use a form of technology to illustrate the music.
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Bass Clef Spaces- 2
For this music worksheet, learners examine 5 staffs of music in the bass clef. Students label each note with the correct letter name. There are notes only on the spaces. Examples are provided to help learners.
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Bass Clef Spaces --3
in this music worksheet, students study 6 staffs of music with notes in the spaces of the bass clef. Students label each note with the correct letter name. There are examples to help.
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Twelve-Bar Blues
Students examine blues music. In this music genres activity, students discover details about the history of the musical genre and compositional techniques. Students then compose melodies of their own with 12-bar blues chord progression.
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Europe: Indigenous Musical Genius
Students are introduced to several forms of indigenous European music. Students become familiar with instruments, musical and forms and styles from Spain, Sardinia, Austria and Switzerland. Students recreate selected rhythms and styles.
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Intro to New Technologies in Music Education
Seventh graders, while in the computer lab utilizing a Sibelius software, create an eight-measure piece in the key of a minor using the notes A, B, C, D and E. They incorporate quarter notes, eighth notes and half notes. Each student...
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Music
Third graders sing the Shaker tune "Simple Gifts" while identifying eighth, quarter, and half notes. They listen to Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring and recall other ballet music.