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Students are assigned a composer from one period of Music History to creatively present to the class using art, drama, poetry and/or original composition within a 5 minute time frame.

An end of the semester paper incorporating the entire semester's worth of lessons in music theory and appreciation. The purpose is to encourage the students to write about and listen to music intelligently and deliberately.

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The student should keep a steady beat as well as sing the correct pitches.

The student should keep a steady beat as well as sing the correct pitches.

Make a melody by using assigned pitches and rhythms.

S1P1c,d. Students will investigate how vibrations produce sound. Student will differentiate between various sounds in terms of (pitch) high or low and (volume) loud or soft. Task: Students will construct and present a homemade musical instrument. Student will present what materials were chosen, how constructed, quality of sound, and how sound is produced.

Students will discuss the usage of Pitch Syllables as well as the understanding of vocabulary used in a chorus.

Assess musical project work in class, musical presentation and composer presentation.

In this unit, “The Mechanics of Music”, students will analyze note and rest values, melodic note (letter names), associated with the identifying notes for the treble clef of the music staff. They will also explore the music symbols necessary to read music notation.

In this unit, “The Mechanics of Music”, students will break down the components of reading music. They explore and analyze note and rest values, melodic note (letter names), rhymes (raps) associated with the identifying notes for the treble clef and bass clef of the music staff. They will also explore the music symbols necessary to read music notation, fingering, slide, keyboard positions, stick grips and how instruments produce their characteristic sound. A PowerPoint slide presentation and note/rest value matrix will be the student generated products.

This rubric is used to assess research papers in an undergraduate music history course.