As blogged yesterday, my husband and I recently acquired a 1929 Victor Victrola gramophone. Researching our new “toy” inspired me to create a lesson plan about the history of audio formats for this month’s group class “Piano Party” for my piano students. The lesson plan, craft activity, and slides are available as a single PDF freebie…so continue reading!
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It’s March, and I have already had a couple of my piano students inquire whether I will be doing summer music camps again this year. The answer is YES, I have started thinking about them. 🙂
One of the camps from last year that I will definitely be repeating this summer is Music History Blast From The Past. I plan to use the same format as last year, but I will be focusing on different composers.
In case you are considering the possibility of offering a summer music camp or two, I thought I would share more about how I planned my music history camp last year.
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I have finally completed the lesson plans for the Musical Olympics Camp! This pdf is a FREE download from the Printables > Lesson Plans page. Let me give another thank you to Sheryl Welles for her great game ideas, and for her permission to include descriptions of those games in the lesson plan.
This pdf also includes a few new printables I created for the Musical Olympics Camp. I decided to make some of those new printables available for download on the Printables page too, since some of them may easily be used for activities besides the camp. Here’s a list of all the printables:
Just added to the Printables > Lesson Plans page:
Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Analyzing & Composing Music in the Romantic Style
A few months ago, I used these lesson plans during a piano camp where I taught Theory & Composition classes. This camp is unusual in that it gives the students a chance to work on ensemble music with their fellow campers. In addition, all the ensemble music are original compositions — composed just for our campers.
In the lesson plans I made, I tried to incorporate both the emphasis on composition and the topic of the Music History classes (taught by another instructor; this year, focusing on the Romantic Period). So, this year’s lesson plans are all about learning how to compose music in the Romantic style. By the end of the week, the class had created a Class Composition for piano which was performed for all to hear at the camp recital! The pieces were humorous, yet surprisingly sophisticated. Perhaps later on, I’ll post an example of a composition they created, if that would be helpful to anyone.
The lesson plans are designed for classes of 4 – 6 students ranging in ages about 9 to 15, but I’m sure they could be adapted to suit other ages and groups of students. Enjoy! Let me know how they work for you.
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