Teaching Units for Educators

What does this site offer music teachers?

Each unit includes:

  • Full Score Analysis used for developing the teaching strategies. (Melodic, Harmonic, Rhythmic, Formal, Historical, & Cultural analysis)
  • Teacher's Guide that provides strategies and activities:
    • Detailed description of all activities in the student guide.
    • Warm-up strategies that reflect the elements from the musical piece
    • Resources: Recordings, books, articles, related compositions, web-sites that would aid in teaching this piece.
    • Assessment of student learning with answers guides and/or grading rubrics and rubrics, rating scales, or check lists for assessing proficiency achievement
    • Additional information on the piece that would be useful to the teacher-conductor.
  • Student Guide providing your students with
    • Learning goals
    • Instructional guidance and activities for:
      • Historical Background and cultural context: on the piece, composer, genre, style, making connection common with visual art.
      • Rhythmic concepts involved in the composition
      • Melodic movement and the relationship to other elements.
      • Harmonic foundation and relationship to other elements.
      • Form Analysis providing examples of overall form in graphic representation.
      • Practice Guide: Rhythms, scale patterns, etc. extracted from the score that the student is to practice at home and that can be utilized in ensemble warm-up.
      • Visual examples of interdisciplinary connections.
      • Assessments for student understanding of the concepts and skill development.
      • Glossary of necessary and useful terminology to understand the composition
    • Webquests offering your students extended instruction of literature and musical concept

Band Literature

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Grade Level
Composer