Posts Tagged ‘Beat’
Lesson: What’s Your Name? Speech and Body Percussion Piece
What’s Your Name? Speech and Body Percussion Piece Every year, new students enter our classrooms from all walks of life. The one commonality with all of them is a NAME. As an elementary music teacher, learning all of our students’ names can be a daunting task and we sometimes forget that the children are in…
Read MoreA Tale of Two Villages
A Tale of Two Villages Materials: Tale of Two Villages, Music for Creative Dance: Contrast and Continuum, Volume 1, Eric Chapelle Objectives: Locomotor vs. Non-Locomotor Movement Expression of Beat Binary Form (AB) Improvisation Process: Students scatter in space, encourage various ways of moving a singular body part; move arm only, or leg, or head, etc., teacher plays drum…
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