General Music - Dry Board Composition

National Standards for Music Education, K - 4
  Content Standard #4: Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines
    Achievement Standard 4b: Students create and arrangeshort songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines.
  Content Standard #5: Reading and notating music.
    Achievement Standard 5a: Students read whole, half, dotted quarter, quarter, and eigth notes and rests in two four, three four, and four four meter signatures.
    Achievement Standard 5d: Students use standard symbols to notate meter,rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns given by teacher.

 

 

 

 
 
Class Project - Dry Board Composition
 
  • Students choose a meter and place it on the staff on the dry board.
  • Each student comes up to the board, chooses a note or rest, ( choice of whole, half, dotted quarter, quarter, and eigth notes and rests) and places it on the staff on any line or space.
  • Students have to decide as a group where to place bar lines.
  • When all the students have had a turn and the composition is complete, the teacher plays the class composition and the students can clap the rhythm.
  • If time permits the class could add simple lyrics to the composition.

 
 
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