Possible Unit Ideas

 Liturgy-hymns, composers, liturgy parts and history, psalm study, Martin Luther, paraments, banners, church calendarkeyboard unit

 Beethoven-life, pieces, forms, Classical era, contemporaries, piano history, science of sound

  Keyboard-history, composers, variety of types and styles, organ, performances, vocabulary, sequencers, programming




  Recorders-wind instruments, solo, duet, performances, see and play a variety of recorders, Renaissance era

  Musicals-vocabulary, history, examples, Broadway, choreography, dances, composers, performers

 20th Century Composition Style-performers, composers, styles, compositions, forms, role of technology, chance music, scales vs. atonal



autoharp students  Spirituals, Blues, & Jazz-performers, types and characteristics, African connections, history, forms, instruments


 America-patriotic, composers, folk songs, autoharp, movie themes, transportation, Westward expansion, folk composers and performers

 America in the 1900's-history and music connections and influence, styles, vocabulary, timelines, dance types, forms of media


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