TEACHING MUSIC… Series
by Valeaira Luppens & Greg Foreman.
Stimulating lessons, audio CDs, reproducible activities, and visuals stir the imagination, increase critical, higher-level thinking skills, and foster deeper understanding of the relationships of music to culture, history, science, math, and the arts.
What's included:
- TEACHING MUSIC ACROSS HISTORY (7343)
This exciting resource helps kids “understand music in relation to history and culture,” (Nat’l Standards #9), through lessons, games, reproducible activities, a classical music CD, and internet links. Enjoy holiday units on black history like Martin Luther King or the Underground Railroad; President’s Day (George Washington’s Rap and Copland’s Lincoln Portrait); or learn about harmony with a Thanksgiving partner song. Discover what inventions were created in which musical period, or explore the history of opera, jazz, Broadway, or Early American songs. In The Time Machine, track clues on composers’ nationalities, works, and periods, along with historic events. Set up a courtroom trial of J.S. Bach, or a TV game show on composers. Enjoy 29 mind-expanding units, many only 20 to 30 min. Elem./MS. Paperback & CD
- TEACHING MUSIC ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (7329)
Created to achieve the #8 National Music Standard goal, “understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts,” to build teamwork in the school’s “ensemble” and to improve motivation across the curriculum, this program includes a host of clever reproducible activities and practical lessons that integrate music with communication arts, history, math, and science. 92 pp. Paperback
- TEACHING MUSIC THROUGH ART (7390)
Lessons and reproducible activities introduce musical concepts through music-related art projects to create and display in the classroom. Easy preparations and great results as you teach concepts such as: Lines, Color (Timbre), Form, Texture, and Shape. The CD includes classical music and reinforces lessons. Paperback & CD
