Teaching Music Through Composition - Freedman

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Résumé :
Teaching Music through Composition offers a practical and fully multimedia curriculum of over 60 lesson plans in 29 units of study, including student assignments sheets, worksheets, handouts, and audio, MIDI, and video files on a companion website. Author and award-winning music educator Barbara Freedman presents classroom-tested ways of teaching a wide array of musical topics, including general/basic music theory, music appreciation and analysis, keyboarding, composing/arranging, even ear-training (aural theory) using technology that will directly engage students in the twenty first century. The larger curriculum objective of this book is to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition. The tool with which students create, edit, save, and reproduce music is the technology. As Freedman demonstrates, technology allows a musical experience for all skill levels in opportunities never before available to compose music without having to know much about traditional music theory or notation. All students can have meaningful hands-on applied learning experiences that will impact not only their music experience and learning but also their understanding and comfort with 21st century technology.

Whether the primary focus of your class is to use technology to create music or to explore using technology as a unit or two, this book will show you how it can be done with practical, tried-and-true lesson plans and student activities....

Biographie:

• Introductory material


• Introduction to Music Composition


• 1. Tour of the Software for Music Creation


• (a) Lesson: Creating Software Instrument Track


• (b) Lesson: Tour of the Loops Library


• 2. Using Loops


• (a) Lesson: Creating Melodies with Loops


• (b) Lesson: Understanding Song (AB) Form


• (c) Lesson/Project: Creating a Piece Using the Software's Prerecorded Loops in AB Song Form


• 3. Recording Drum Tracks


• (a) Lesson: Understanding Rhythmic Notation with Rhythm States


• (b) Lesson: Reading Graphic Rhythms with Rhythm States


• (c) Lesson: Rhythm Dictations


• (d) Lesson: Drum Beats


• 4. Composing Drum and Percussion Beats


• (a) Lesson/Project: Composing Drum and Percussion Beats


• 5. Writing Melodies


• (a) Lesson: Understanding the Piano Keyboard


• (b) Lesson: Melodic Dictations


• (c) Lesson: Evaluating Melodies


• (d) Lesson: Composing a Melody in D Dorian


• 6. Melodic Variations Using Rhythmic Alterations


• (a) Lesson: Melodic Fragments, Rhythmic Augmentation, And Rhythmic Diminution


• 7. Creating More Variations


• (a) Lesson: Manually Changing the Pitch Level of Regions


• 8. Composing with Original Regions


• (a) Lesson/Project: D Melody Piece in Modified Sonata Allegro Form


• 9. The Sound FX Piece


• (a) Lesson: The Sound FX Piece: How Ideas Evolve Over Time


• (b) Lesson: The Sound FX Project: Creating Two Dimensional Sound Image and Creating Sonic Space


• (c) Lesson: Using Reverb to Create Three Dimensional Space


• 10. Basic Keyboard Theory


• (a) Lesson: Whole and Half steps


• (b) Lesson: Generic Intervals Lesson Plan


• (c) Lesson: Basic Keyboard Theory: Understanding Major Scales


• 11. MIDI Remix


• (a) Lesson Plan: Analyzing a Remix 1


• (b) Lesson Plan: Analyzing a Remix 2


• (c) Lesson Plan: MIDI Remix


• 12. More Rhythms


• (a) Lesson Plan: More Rhythms


• (b) Rhythmic Improvisation


• 13. Dictations


• (a) Lesson Plan: Melodic Dictations


• 14. Melody Writing Drills


• (a) Creating Melodic Motives Lesson Plan


• (b) Lesson Plan: Motive Variations


• (c) Lesson Plan: Motive in Sequence


• (d) Lesson Plan: Improvising Melodies


• 15. More Melody Writing Drills


• (a) Lesson Plan: Compose to a Given Rhythm (Rhythmic Continuity)


• 16. Melody Forms


• (a) Lesson Plan: Question and Answer


• (b) Lesson Plan: AB Tonic/Dominant


• (c) Lesson Plan: Rondo


• 17. The Ringtone Project


• (a) Lesson Plan: The Ringtone Project


• 18. More Basic Keyboard Theory


• (a) Lesson Plan: Major and Minor Thirds


• (b) Lesson Plan: Understanding Triad Qualities


• (c) Lesson Plan: Building Triads on Scale Degrees


• 19. Chord Progressions


• (a) Lesson Plan: Basic Chord Progressions


• (b) Lesson Plan: Twelve Bar Blues


• (c) Lesson Plan: Given Chord Progressions from the Simple Map


• (d) Lesson Plan: Common Chord Progressions Not on the Simple Map


• 20. Accompaniment Patterns


• (a) Lesson Plan: Accompaniment Patterns


• 21. Putting it Together


• (a) Lesson Plan: Composing Four-Measure Melodies


• (b) Lesson Plan: Drone


• (c) Lesson Plan: Generic Parallel Intervals


• (d) Lesson Plan: C...

  Sommaire:
  Named a TI:ME Music Teacher of the Year, Barbara Freedman has been teaching music since 1997 and currently teaches Electronic Music & Audio Engineering at Greenwich High School in Connecticut. She is an author, consultant, trainer, and frequent presenter/clinician at local, state, and national in-service conferences and events.
  
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