Students will compose an instrumental piece (for elementary school) or a song with lyrics and melody (middle school), using a step-by-step guide, celebrating Fall.
Leaf template provided to make either a shaped composition (Concrete Poem) or to add to a wall display, bulletin board for presentation.
Within 2-4 lessons, elementary school students will compose a song. In the process the student will:
• Explore visual connectors between falling leaves and “falling” (descending) melodic line
• Explore high to low in pitch
• Use a treble staff plotting high to low lines
• Learn line notes or space notes on the treble staff
• Perform with attention to mood, color, tempo to reflect falling leaves
Within 2-4 lessons, middle school students will compose a song. In the process the student will:
• Explore “synonyms”
• Plan a poem
• Connect the “self” to the poem
• Scan a poem for stressed syllables
• Identify the pulse of the poem
• Segment the poem to segment into measures
• Rework a poem into lyrics
• Explore basic techniques of extending, fragmenting, developing a poem into lyrics
• Acquire, review or practice basic staff notation
Leaf template provided to make either a shaped composition (Concrete Poem) or to add to a wall display, bulletin board for presentation.
Within 2-4 lessons, elementary school students will compose a song. In the process the student will:
• Explore visual connectors between falling leaves and “falling” (descending) melodic line
• Explore high to low in pitch
• Use a treble staff plotting high to low lines
• Learn line notes or space notes on the treble staff
• Perform with attention to mood, color, tempo to reflect falling leaves
Within 2-4 lessons, middle school students will compose a song. In the process the student will:
• Explore “synonyms”
• Plan a poem
• Connect the “self” to the poem
• Scan a poem for stressed syllables
• Identify the pulse of the poem
• Segment the poem to segment into measures
• Rework a poem into lyrics
• Explore basic techniques of extending, fragmenting, developing a poem into lyrics
• Acquire, review or practice basic staff notation
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