Melodies and Math: Creating Music with Non-Traditional Instruments

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Melodies and Math: Creating Music with Non-Traditional Instruments

Description:

After reviewing basic music theory, students compose their own music for the touch-tone phone. The musical experience is enriched by further introduction and exploration of non-traditional musical instruments, resulting in a group orchestration and performance

Education Levels:

1, 2, 3, 4, Kindergarten

Subject:

Patterns, Music

Resource Type:

Lesson plan

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Keywords:

Music composition, Melodies, Telephones

Mediator:

Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

ARTSEDGE

Contributor:

Maureen Carroll , Carol Parenzan Smalley

Is Part Of:

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/

Language:

English

General

Essential Resources:

Computers with Internet access; Music notation paper; Pencils; Access to "found" classroom materials (such as books, art supplies, paper, educational toys); "Making Musical Instruments with Kids: 67 Easy Projects for Adults Working with Children" book (optional); Earplugs (for the teacher!)

Learning Time:

1 hour 45 minutes

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Mathematics, Arts

Instructional Methods

Assessment Method:

Self evaluation

Interaction Method:

Small group instruction, Large Group instruction

Learning Outcomes:

Broad Correlation

The National Standards for Arts Education (1994)

Music

Content Standard 2: Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

Broad Correlation

The National Standards for Arts Education (1994)

Music

Content Standard 3: Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments

Broad Correlation

The National Standards for Arts Education (1994)

Music

Content Standard 5: Reading and notating music

Broad Correlation

The National Standards for Arts Education (1994)

Music

Content Standard 8: Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts

Broad Correlation

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010)

Standards for Mathematical Practice

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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