by Helen MacGregor. Superb curricular kit introduces the building blocks of music—pitch, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, texture, dynamics—with engaging listening activities and interactive whiteboard resources.
Kids learn how to scaffold the elements of music when they create and perform their own music, inspired by music selections from around the globe: Music from Indonesia, the Caribbean, India, the Pacific, South America and Europe.
Explore Duration with Unsquare Dance by Brubeck with its odd and even meter by clapping and moving, improvising on instruments. Then discover differences in Morse Code and Music languages with Inspector Morse and explore further with several more pieces.
Progress through Dynamics, Tempo, Timbre, Texture (using Webern Five Pieces for Orchestra with its thin texture and wide variety of instruments, Night Music, and a Jamaican folksong Dis Long Time Gal that uses steel pans), Pitch, and Structure.
Ages 7-14. Highly recommended!
