SoundScapes Music Activities

SoundScapes Music Activities
Author: Stella Tartsinis
Publisher: Stella Tartsinis
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2024-10-31
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

These activities help elementary students build foundational music skills in a fun, interactive way! The activities o:er a wide range of interactive, exploratory, and creative experiences for elementary students, helping them develop a deep appreciation for music.

Listen to the Rain

Listen to the Rain
Author: Bill Martin, Jr.
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1988-11-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780805006827

Describes the changing sounds of the rain, the slow soft sprinkle, the drip-drop tinkle, the sounding pounding roaring rain, and the fresh wet silent after-time of rain.

101 Drama Games and Activities

101 Drama Games and Activities
Author: David Farmer
Publisher: David Farmer
Total Pages: 89
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN: 184753841X

Gain access to a personal collection of 101 highly effective drama games and activities suitable for children or adults. Sections include improvisation, mime, ice-breakers, group dynamics, rehearsal, story-telling, voice and warm-ups.

Making Music with Sounds

Making Music with Sounds
Author: Leigh Landy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136322507

Making Music with Sounds offers a creative introduction to the art of making sound-based music. It introduces the elements of making compositions with sounds and facilitates creativity in school age children, with the activities primarily for 11-14 year old students. It can also be used by people of all ages becoming acquainted with this music for the first time. Sound-based music is defined as the art form in which the sound, rather than the musical note, is the basic unit and is closely related to electronic music and the sonic arts. The art of sound organisation can be found in a number of forms of music--in film, television, theatre, dance, and new media. Despite this, there are few materials available currently for young people to discover how to make sound-based music. This book offers a programme of development starting from aural awareness, through the discovery and organisation of potential sounds, to the means of generating and manipulating sounds to create sequences and entire works. The book’s holistic pedagogical approach to composition also involves aspects related to musical understanding and appreciation, reinforced by the author’s online pedagogical ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS II).

Teaching Music Creatively

Teaching Music Creatively
Author: Pamela Burnard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-06-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135049955

Offering a brand new approach to teaching music in the primary classroom, Teaching Music Creatively provides training and qualified teachers with a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively deliver a creative music curriculum. Exploring research-informed teaching ideas, diverse practices and approaches to music teaching, the authors offer well-tested strategies for developing children’s musical creativity, knowledge, skills and understanding. With ground-breaking contributions from international experts in the field, this book presents a unique set of perspectives on music teaching. Key topics covered include: Creative teaching, and what it means to teach creatively; Composition, listening and notation; Spontaneous music-making; Group music and performance; The use of multimedia; Integration of music into the wider curriculum; Musical play; Cultural diversity; Assessment and planning. Packed with practical, innovative ideas for teaching music in a lively and creative way, together with the theory and background necessary to develop a comprehensive understanding of creative teaching methods, Teaching Music Creatively is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students in initial teacher training, practising teachers, and undergraduate students of music and education.

Niko Draws a Feeling

Niko Draws a Feeling
Author: Bob Raczka
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2017-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1512432768

Niko loves to draw his world: the ring-a-ling of the ice cream truck, the warmth of sun on his face. But no one appreciates his art. Until one day, Niko meets Iris . . . This imaginative and tender story explores the creative process, abstract art, friendship, and the universal desire to feel understood. A Junior Library Guild selection, Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book, Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice, Midwest Connections Pick, NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts, and New York Public Library Best Book for Kids

Soundscapes

Soundscapes
Author: Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780393975369

Soundscapes organizes the study of music in the way people encounter it - by its function in their lives and their communities. Through a series of case studies, this text presents the fundamentals of music in a variety of social and cultural settings. This three-CD set contains 75 selections, each accompanied by a listening guide in the text. A Web-site enables students to reinforce their studies and explore related topics.

The Power of Tranquility in a Very Noisy World

The Power of Tranquility in a Very Noisy World
Author: Bernie Krause
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0316421049

You’ve decluttered your personal space, now it’s time to tidy up your soundscape. At a time when noise and chaos compete for every moment of our attention, noted author, musician, and naturalist, Dr. Bernie Krause, introduces us to methods for turning down the clatter in our lives, restoring a sense of contentment, and reclaiming the calm. Just as some influencers inspire us to tidy up household clutter, The Power of Tranquility in a Very Noisy World takes personal organization a step further – into the sonic realm. Bioacoustician, Bernie Krause, shares healthful tips that identify and reduce the damaging aural assaults that besiege us – incoherent dissonance that impacts our health more than we may realize. With his reassuring guidance, you will be able to fine-tune your surroundings, improve your sense of wellness, reduce anxiety, and restore a sense of inner peace and productivity to your own acoustic space. The Power of Tranquility in a Very Noisy World is a revelatory and powerful book. Thoroughly researched and accessibly crafted, it’s today’s best quiet guide ­– directing you from a debris field of noise into a more tranquil, connected, and resonant life.

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860
Author: Franco Piperno
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2023-07-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000899918

Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music and sound were intimately connected to changing social and political practices. The volume offers a critical redefinition of the core concept of soundscape, considering musical practices through the lenses of territory, space, representation, and identity, in five parts: Soundscape, Phonosphere, and Urban History Urban Soundscapes across Time Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities Urban Soundscapes in Literary Sources Reconstructing Urban Soundscapes in the Digital Era Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 reframes our understanding of Italian music history beyond models of patronage, investigating how sounds and musics have contributed to the construction of human identities and communities.