Music

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Table of Contents

Websites & Tools
Petaluma City Schools Music Program Textbook Materials
Music Interactives (Make/Explore Music)
Music Terms or Genres
Lesson Plans
Other Resources

Websites & Tools

Petaluma City Schools Music Program Textbook Materials

http://www.essential-elements-2000.com/

Music Interactives (Make/Explore Music)

Music Terms or Genres

The following websites provide a good overview or a specific genre of music.

San Francisco Symphony Kids - a nice overview of symphony instruments and activities; used as part of the ArtsEdge lesson plan below.

ArtsAlive - another nice overview of symphony instruments.

NY Philharmonic - nice online clips of composers, fun music composition interactives and instrument information.

http://www.dsokids.com - similar to all the websites of orchestras.

Essentials of Music - has many examples of different composers and eras. If you have a lesson plan around appreciation, there are online listening opportunties for each composer by genre or by era (lists the composers that are within an era).

Internet Public Library Music History - music through history; includes mp3 files for listening to the selections.

Jazz from PBS

Lesson Plans

The following websites contain lesson plans based on grade with links within the website or to other websites. There are many more lesson plans than the direct link below, so look around on the site.

ArtsEdge from the Kennedy This site uses the SFKids site below (see smiley)

http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/hands-on_math/music_for_movies/index.php/> a math and music lesson plan for grades 5 & 6

BBC Music- an interactive site with lesson plans from the BBC Schools site.

Lessons Plans Pages - Music many lesson plans

TeachersNet Lesson Plans a lesson plan on comparing composers