Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Listening and Movement Activities

I have a hard time coming up with musical works off the top of my head that work well for teaching musical concepts.  Anyone else?  Liz Knapp and I have started a list of pieces we've been using so far this year for listening (journaling) and movement activies, and I have made a GoogleDoc spreadsheet.

Anyone who has this URL is able to view and edit the spreadsheet.  Hopefully random people on the internet won't find it and mess around with it--I'll try to keep a back up copy periodically.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqYwseSAJ0MAdDlUb2Y5Ym5faGpORk9JWWg2SWllalE&hl=en&authkey=CLzFuJsF

The categories are:
  • Title of Work
  • Composer/Arranger
  • Where the recording can be found
  • Does it work for a listening activity?
  • Does it work for a movement activity?
  • What are the musical concepts highlighted in this piece? (rhythmic ostinato? dynamic contrast? tempo changes?)
Feel free to add more categories if you think there should be more.

Please add information and then click File--->Save.

1 comment:

  1. This is awesome Kate! Great idea, definitely going to be using this a lot!

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