Mrs. Anna's General Music

Welcome to Middle School Music and Drama

 

Click on the Middle School Drama page to the left to find out about our 2016/2017 Middle School Musical.

Click on the General Music or Chorus page for information about those courses.

To see and hear samples of some of our General Music projects, click on 6th Grade Movies or 7th Grade General Music (click on a name).

 

Music Curriculum Grade 6	6th Grade Chorus
7/8 Chorus	7th Grade General Music
8th Grade General Music

Music Curriculum Grade 6  -  General Music

ALL GRADES:  Students will be able to:  understand written music notation; sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music; evaluate music and music performances; understand the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts; understand music in relation to history and culture; AND be able to think IN music.
 
Guitar – Focus on the BASICS, STRUMMING, CHORDS, PLAYING REPERTOIRE (alone and with others).  * Final playing exam at end.
 
Keyboards –  6^th Grade = BASICS.  All levels = work at individual pace out of beginning level method books.  Be able to play alone and with others.  * Final playing exam at end.
 
Theory – Included into guitar and keyboard units.  Terms.  Signs/symbols.  Form (6^th grade – ABA; 7^th gr. – Theme and Variation; Music Alive  magazines (relating to all areas of theory, listening, evaluating, composing, pop art, etc.)
 
Composition – Each general music student will write his/her own piece of music and be able to play it (on their choice of instrument--guitar, piano, band/orchestra instrument).  6^th grade – 4-8 mm.  ABA./7^th grade – 8-10 mm. Theme & Variation.
 
Styles –6^th grade students receive lessons based on various styles of American music (jazz, ragtime, swing, etc.).  These lessons will be included during our guitar and keyboard units.
 
Music History – Composers Resurrected.  6^th graders will learn about a famous composer from a period in music history (Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic).  Each student will make their composer come alive by researching the composer as well as the time period and present the information in the form of a short movie.  Click on the link on the left to see an example. 
 
Singing – 6^th grade students will receive ensemble singing instruction.  They will learn to read 2 and 3-part music in various pop and rock-n-roll styles.
 
Musical Theatre – Each level will watch a video of a musical theatre production.  Throughout the show, class will discuss all aspects of the performance (singing, acting, dancing, lighting design, set design, costume/makeup, etc.)



**  for mini composition project:
http://www.nyphilkids.org/gallery/main.phtml?
(copy and paste this address)


6th Grade Chorus

Hold Fast to Your Dreams         http://www.lorenz.com/med/sample/15_2576H.mp3

 

6th Graders:

For all-county:

2016-17

 

7th Grade General Music
 

Welcome to 7th Grade General Music

 

Link for Composers/Listening Lesson
 

Use the following links for How Do We Paint Sound worksheets:

Biography portion - 

www.biography.com

www.thefamouspeople.com

www.go.grolier.com

 

Jazz Age worksheet - 

http://www.american-historama.org/1913-1928-ww1-prohibition-era/jazz-age.htm

http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/jazz_age.htm

http://www.swingmusic.net/getready.html

https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/from-the-new-era-to-the-great-depression-1920-1933/the-culture-of-change/the-jazz-age/

 

8th Grade General Music

 

You finally made it to 8th grade....

You finally get to study nothing but Rock-n-Roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

click below for an outline of the next 10 weeks.

 

 

Rock Hall of Fame classroom work:

http://www.rockhall.com/education/distance-learning/digital-classroom-1950s/

 

For 12-bar blues Assignment:

 

http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/essays12bar.html

http://www.studybass.com/lessons/blues-bass/the-12-bar-blues-form/

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/examining-the-12bar-blues-pattern.html

http://www.pianolessons.com/piano-lessons/12-bar-blues.php  -  use this as you hand out sheet/staff paper and have already gone over the blues scale and the 3 chords!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoNL2aFEySs   -  BB King lesson – 8 bar blues

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtMdTaISq_w  -n PBS – Eric Clapton – Nothin but the blues concert series!!!!

 

For Final Project (in a pinch worksheet...):

Helpful websites for 8^th grade pop music montage project

 

1950’s: 

http://home.att.net/~boomers.fifties.teenmag/1950_history.html

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html

  

1960 ‘s:

http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/topics/culture/

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html

http://teachers.westport.k12.ct.us/resource/twentieth_century.htm

 http://www.fashion-era.com/1960-1980.htm

 

1970’s:

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade70.html

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1970s.html

http://library.sullivan.edu/links/history_1970.htm 

http://vlib.iue.it/history/USA/ERAS/20TH/1970s.html

1980’s:

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade80.html

http://www.vintageblues.com/history8.htm 

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1980.html

All Eras:

http://history1900s.about.com/library/time/bltime1950.htm

http://teachers.westport.k12.ct.us/resource/twentieth_century.htm

 

POP MUSIC MONTAGE

 

Other Groups:

  (that we did not study)

 

1950’s:

 

Nat King Cole                          Johnny Cash                             Tony Bennett

Perry Cuomo                            Bill Haley & the Comets           Pat Boone

Chubby Checker                      Bobby Darrin                           Dean Martin

 

 1960’s

 Monkeys                                  Smokey Robinson                    Janice Joplin

Everly Bros.                             The Byrds                                Jimi Hendrix

Marvin Gaye                            Yardbirds                                 Stevie Wonder

Supremes

 

1970’s

 Simon & Garfunkel                     Jackson 5                                 The Carpenters

Led Zeppelin                              Santana                                    Dionne Warwick

Elton John                                 John McClean                            Chicago

The - Steve Miller Band               Jim Croce                                  Lynyrd Skynyrd

America                                    Jefferson Starship                      The Eagles

 

 1980’s

 Blondie                         Billy Joel                                   Captain & Tenille

Pat Benatar                              Air Supply                                Styx

ACDC                                     J. Geils Band                             The Go-Go's

Foreigner                                   Daryl Hall And John Oates          Michael Jackson

Sting                                         Cindy Lauper                             Duran Duran

Prince                                       Bruce Springsteen                     Madonna 

Phil Collins                                Huey Lewis & the News