Transcript PRESENTATION NAME - Waunakee Intermediate School

GENERAL MUSIC
Waunakee Middle School
Mrs. Spicer
What do students’ learn?
-Music StandardsMUSIC PERFORMANCE
• SINGING
• INSTRUMENTS
What do students’ learn?
-Music StandardsMUSIC CREATIVITY
• IMPROVISATION
Create New Music on the Spot!
• COMPOSITION
Write Your Own Music!
What do students’ learn?
-Music StandardsMUSIC LITERACY
• READING AND NOTATING
Learn How to Read Music!
What do students’ learn?
-Music StandardsMUSIC RESPONSE
• ANALYSIS
Listen to Music and Describe it!
• EVALUATION
Critique your Own and Other’s
Performances!
What do students’ learn?
-Music StandardsMUSIC CONNECTIONS
• ARTS
Compare Music to Other Arts and School
Subjects!
• HISTORY AND CONNECTIONS
Learn Music History and World Music!
What do students’ learn?
Additional Skills
• TECHNOLOGY
Computers – Composition Software – Internet
Research– Word - Powerpoint – Recording
• WRITING/READING
Music Journal – Internet Research - Article
• TEAMWORK
Ensemble Playing – Partner Work - Group
Projects – Class Presentations
7th GRADE:
MUSIC UNITS
MUSIC JOURNAL: LISTENING
1st Semester:
• Journey through Time (Western Music)
Middle Ages through Today!
Interview a Composer!
2nd Semester:
• Piano and Guitar
Student choice accepted!
COMPOSITION
• SOUND COMPOSITION
Partner Compositions using Symbols, Body
Language and Classroom Sounds!
• COMPUTER COMPOSITION
Create your own music on the computer!
Choose your own instruments
and sounds!
MUSIC NOTATION
• MUSIC THEORY REVIEW
Review how to read notes and rhythms!
Music Games!
• PERCUSSION (DRUMS)
Play Drums and Shakers! Read rhythms with
computer accompaniment!
KEYBOARD
• MUSIC THEORY REVIEW
Review how to read notes and rhythms!
• KEYBOARD
Play Piano! Recitals, Duets, Improvisation,
Composition, and much more!
GUITAR
• INTRODUCTION TO GUITAR
Play an Acoustic Guitar! Read Music! Learn
about electric/bass guitar!
8th GRADE:
MUSIC UNITS
MUSIC JOURNAL: LISTENING
• American Music
• World Music
• Student Choice
• Swing/Rock
STOMP
• STOMP IMPROVISATION
• COMPOSITION
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
• TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD
Explore world music and cultures through the
internet!
• POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
Group Project: Present your findings
as an ethnomusicologist to the class!
WORLD DRUMMING
• WORLD DRUMMING
Africa
Middle East
Caribbean
(Drum Presentations for 7th Grade Classes
Left: Senor Fanta’s Class)
SWING/ROCK
• SWING MUSIC
Blues Guitar
Jazz Listening
• ROCK
Drumset
Swing Culture &
Lingo
Bands and
Performers