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Basic Counting

Basic Counting: One of the most obvious questions is how musicians know when to play. Well, its easy.. they learn to count the beats. First let us present you with this. 1 whole note = 2 half notes = 4 quarter notes = 8 eighth notes = 16 sixteenth notes. Keep that in mind while looking at these examples. Lets start with this example. First off, looking at the time signature you know that there are 4 quarter notes per measure. In the first measure the whole note ...

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Learn music with educational game

Learn music with educational game With Happy Note! learn music IS a game ! Designed by licensed music teachers, each Happy Note! educational software is a true computer game with all the bells and whistles (score, lives, Hi-Score, etc.) They both entertain and educate, and make boring music education and solfege a thing of the past. Thanks to Happy Note! educational games, children and adults can now learn music the fun way! Happy Note! Treble Clef and Bass Clef An educational game ...

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Lesson 1 Keep on Pushing: Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movement Rationale: Viewed as an original historical source, popular music reflects the diverse attitudes of the American public at different times in history. Music presents insights and multiple points of view as well as an emotional impact which other historical documents, particularly written, often lack. Through music, history comes alive and students can connect directly with people and events which may otherwi ...

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Lesson 2 Langston Hughes and the Blues Rationale: An authentic African-American folk-music and the foundation for much American music including rock and roll, the blues is a unique expression of black American culture. In addition to being an art form in its own right, the blues has inspired many writers and artists including Langston Hughes. Exploring the connections between the blues and the poetry of Hughes will enrich students' understanding of the African-American experie ...

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Lesson 3 Life Under Apartheid Contributed by James W. Lane, Orange High School Rationale: Music can serve as a historical document just as can a diary, newspaper story, art object, taped conversation or biography. In this lesson, students will examine two songs written and performed by Johnny Clegg and Savuka. Clegg and his band are South Africans: Clegg is white and his band members black. Their band is a union that most South Africans long for and their music often express ...

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Lesson 5 Fifties/Sixties Musical Playwriting Workshop Contributed by Marilyn Crooker and Maureen Johnson, Lake Ridge Academy, North Ridgeville, OH Rationale: This unite appeals to multiple intelligences, encourages interdisciplinary learning, reinforces self-confidence, and stimulates creativity, co-operation and critical thinking. Using songs with a strong narrative, students are asked to imagine scenes that might take place immediately before and after the events of the son ...

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Lesson 9 Using Rock to Teach Literary Devices: Jimi Hendrix "The Wind Cries Mary" Contributed by Joe Knap, Bay High School, Bay Village, OH Rationale: Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" is an ideal song, not just to illustrate personification, but also to demonstrate how poetic devices enhance the meaning of the poem. As soon as the students recognize that the speaker is mourning the loss of a special person, the purpose of the personification will blossom for them. Obj ...

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Lesson 10 Using Rock as Primary Source Material: Country Joe McDonald and the Fish "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die-Rag" Contributed by Joe Knap, Bay High School, Bay Village, OH. Rationale: "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag" by Country Joe McDonald has been played with great success in classrooms for over twenty years. While it conveys literary elements such as theme, point of view, and irony, it also functions as an entertaining primary source illustrating the part angry, ...

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Lesson 14 Isn't Life Ironic! Rationale: Everyday life is filled with ironies--the contrasts between reality and people's perceptions, between results and expectations, and between the way people view themselves and how they are seen by others. Literature, poetry, and music reflects these ironies found in the real world. A deeper understanding of life's harsh reality and the complex concept of irony may be enhanced through the study of contemporary music and poetry. This lesson ...

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Lesson 15 The Cigar Box Guitar Contributed by: Greg Stiles, Cleveland School for the Arts, Cleveland, OH Rationale: Science instruction is most effective when using a hands-on delivery system. This lesson will use your students' natural affinity for music and musical instruments to reinforce and refine their knowledge of the nature of sound - specifically, that sound is produced by vibrations, and that the frequency of the waves produced by these vibrations determine the pit ...

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Lesson 16 Go Ask Alice -- I Think She'll Know Contributed by Diane Seskes, Kenston High School, Bainbridge, OH Rationale: Today's adolescents must deal with the presence of legal and illegal drugs within their world. Peer pressure is one of the most persuasive elements in our society, especially during the adolescent years. Students need to receive accurate information to make wise decisions. By reading, thinking, and listening to music, students can begin to formulate matur ...

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Lesson 17 The American Dream Contributed by Andrew Kenen and Diane Seskes, Kenston High School, Bainbridge Township, OH Rationale: Dreams, goals, plans. Every person envisions a particular future filled with success. These dreams are products of upbringing, background, history, place, personality, and experiences. For most people, many of these dreams will be realized while others will not come to fruition. The American Dream has changed over the years. What the first immig ...

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Lesson 18 Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum Contributed by Andrew Kenen and Diane Seskes, Kenston High School, Bainbridge Township, OH Rationale: What are the advantages and disadvantages of conforming to society’s expectations? Adolescents strive to answer this question. By studying writers, philosophers, artists, musicians, inventors, and other creative minds, students will see how others have answered this question. Objectives: The students will be able to: re ...

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Lesson 19 Rhythmic, Lyrical Protests of the African American Rationale: Langston Hughes’ poetry became well known as the rhythmic, lyrical protests of all African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Today’s popular rap artists, like Arrested Development, whose lyrics speak of the society in which they live must credit their musical styles directly to the lyrical heritage of Langston Hughes. In fact, Hughes used to read his poetry to the accompaniment of musi ...

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Lesson 20 Who Rocks Your World? Contributed by Nora Murray, Harding Middle School, Lakewood, OH Rationale: In this lesson, a subject of high interest to students is the vehicle for teaching skills that may be perceived as boring to students. Nominating a performer for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame allows students to recognize and verbalize what qualities they value in music as well as in a performer. The business letter format forces students to communicate th ...

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Lesson 23 A Modest Proposal: Irony Made Understandable With Rock and Roll Contributed by Joe Knap, Bay High School, Bay Village, OH Rationale: One of the more difficult literary concepts to teach is irony, especially ironic point of view. Not only do students often miss the subtle linguistic clues, they become distracted by the issue of author’s intent. Whether it’s the classic essay by Jonathon Swift, "A Modest Proposal," the stories of Flannery O’Connor, or a well-known po ...

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Lesson 24 Rock and Rollin' With Oral Interpretation Contributed by Andrew Kenen, Kenston High School, Bainbridge Township, OH Rationale: Too often oral interpretation is relegated to the world of forensic competition when in fact it is a great way to get students to examine more closely the song lyrics which they hear everyday. Looking for lyrics that have a common theme, or relate to each other in other ways, helps students gain an appreciation for the craft of song writin ...

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Lesson 25 From Mark Twain to David Bowie: The Artistic Persona vs. The Individual Contributed by Joe Knap, Bay High School, Bay Village, OH Rationale: Samuel Langhorne Clemens carefully cultivated the Mark Twain image as he wrote such books as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Fyodor Dostoevky struggled between literary necessities and his own personal religious beliefs as illustrated in the epilogue of Crime and Punishment. In "college- ...

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Lesson 26 A Musical Approach to Problem Solving Rationale: Problem solving is quickly becoming one of the buzz words in education. It is a logical approach to analyzing and studying the contemporary world. While this unit was designed as a lesson for a secondary speech course, it could be used in any humanities or social studies program. Introducing the element of popular music into an otherwise routine assignment allows the students to forget about the difficulties of worki ...

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Lesson 36 Break on Through: The Poetry of Jim Morrison Contributed by Joe Knap, Bay High School, Bay Village, OH Rationale: In the chapter "Song" of his popular anthology, An Introduction to Poetry, X.J. Kennedy writes, "when music is combined with poetry the results can be more memorable still," Whether lyrics are the same as poetry may be debated, but the real issue is that lyrics provide a means to study poetic and literary concepts in a way that holds students' interest, ...

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Lesson 47 Know Thyself: Reflections of the Adolescent Identity Crisis in Rock and Roll Contributed by Karen Bauer-Blazer, Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School, Cleveland, OH Rationale: Knowing oneself and attaining a mature identity is the developmental task of adolescence. Successful resolution of the identity crisis involves making healthy choices and personal commitments to an occupation, religious belief, and a personal value system. The search for identity is often refle ...

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Lesson 51 The John Travolta Syndrome The Influence of Music and Film on Contemporary Fashion and Costume History Contributed by Amy Ervin, Pickaway-Ross Joint Vocational School District, Chillicothe, OH Rationale: Fashion is an elusive and fickle subject. When studying the history of costume, it is often easy to find material about Greek and Roman cultures, Elizabethan dress, and the Gibson Girl. It is more difficult, and far less objective, to trace the trends of modern dr ...

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Lesson 52 8-Rap Contributed by: Andy Kenen, Kenston High School, Bainbridge Township, OH Rationale:Rap music and hip-hop have become the pop music of the nineties. Students of all ages like to mimic the rappers they listen to on CD's, tapes, and the radio. As we prepare to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of rap music in American, it's time to bring the music into the classroom. This lesson builds on students' interest in rap music as well as their enjoyment of rhyming an ...

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Lesson 56 Using Cross-Genre Comparisons to Find the Message in Hip-Hop Contributed by: David "Talib" McCullough and Mekkah Sunshine, Cleveland, OH Rationale: Despite its position as "voice of a generation," hip-hop continues to seek recognition as a valid musical and artistic artform. From being viewed as a fad, hip-hop's commercial success has allowed it to permeate virtually all aspects of popular culture. However, hip-hop is still viewed by some as a meritless reflection ...

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Lesson 58 Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, The Minstrels Contributed by: Rebecca Harrington, Delhi Central School, Delhi, NY Rationale: Many adolescent boys are consumed by the Led Zeppelin song "Stairway to Heaven." The analysis of this song can be used to interest students in the music of the Renaissance minstrels. It will also serve as a means of making students aware of the many levels of interpretation inherent in textual art forms. Students will begin to learn how to draw ...

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Lesson 67 Blues Through the Years Rationale: In learning about the history of Music Jr. High students tend to perceive Blues as a very old genre whose day came and went by the wayside with the birth of Rock and Roll. This lesson illustrates the relevance of The Blues in it's infancy, as well as it's contributions to Rock and Roll and current genres which students are fond of. With an abbreviated history of The Blues and a method of analyzing music, the students' interest will ...

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Lesson 68 So This is Love...Contemporary Versions of Cinderella Rationale: I have experienced difficulty explaining tone to my students. It is something that the reader must "hear" in the literature-somehow incompatible with written text, especially if the words are not read aloud. I suggest that using music would be a good way to illustrate tone for students since they would not only experience the words (lyrics), but also vocalization, instrumentation, tempo and volume. An ...

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Lesson 70 Compositional Techniques: Are There Similarities Between Rationale: Young music students rarely see or, better still, hear a connection between the different types of scales, modes, intervals and other compositional techniques such as meter, tonality, and form used in both traditional "Art" music and contemporary "Popular" music. By demonstrating the basic elements of composition used in these different genres of music, similarities and connections can be made that ...

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Lesson 74 Getting Inside The Outsiders Through Music Rationale: In order for students to understand S.E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders completely, they must understand the music of the time and how it relates to the novel's main characters. In the novel, different groups of characters emerge and Hinton distinguishes these groups by associating them with musicians of the time. She realtes The Beatles to the Socs, Elvis Presley to the Greasers, and Hank Williams, Sr. to a rougher ...

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Lesson 76 Timbre: Identifying the Tone Color of the Saxophone Rationale: As part of a general music class for 6th and 7th graders, various instruments are introduced. This lesson exposes students to the various timbres produced by the saxophone using popular, contemporary music. Objectives: Students will be able to: Define the term "tone color;" Identify the various types of saxophones visually and based on the sounds produced; Compare and contrast two different list ...

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Lesson 78 Song Form: From the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Andrea Bocelli Rationale: Many high school students do not recognize the use of repetitive song form in rock and roll music. This lesson will introduce concepts for identifying musical structure and, more specifically, song form. A comparison of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ "Around the World" and Andrea Bocelli’s "Con te Partiro’ (I’ll Go with You)" will demonstrate the use of form. The introduction of the Bocelli piece will ...

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