Barbara Freedman

Teaching Music Through Composition

A Curriculum Using Technology

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a full multimedia curriculum that contains over 60 Lesson Plans in 29 Units of Study, Student Assignments Sheets, Worksheets, Handouts, Audio and MIDI files to teach a wide array of musical topics, including: general/basic music theory, music appreciation and analysis, keyboarding, composing/arranging, even ear-training (aural theory) using technology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 277mm x 213mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780199840618
• ISBN-10: 019984061X
• Artikelnr.: 38595697

Autorenporträt

Named a TI:ME Music Teacher of the Year, Barbara Freedman has been teaching music since 1997 and currently teaches Electronic Music & Audio Engineering at Greenwich High School in Connecticut. She is an author, consultant, trainer, and frequent presenter/clinician at local, state, and national in-service conferences and events.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introductory material
* Introduction to Music Composition
* 1. Tour of the Software for Music Creation
* (a) Lesson: Creating Software Instrument Track
* (b) Lesson: Tour of the Loops Library
* 2. Using Loops
* (a) Lesson: Creating Melodies with Loops
* (b) Lesson: Understanding Song (AB) Form
* (c) Lesson/Project: Creating a Piece Using the Software's Prerecorded
Loops in AB Song Form
* 3. Recording Drum Tracks
* (a) Lesson: Understanding Rhythmic Notation with Rhythm States
* (b) Lesson: Reading Graphic Rhythms with Rhythm States
* (c) Lesson: Rhythm Dictations
* (d) Lesson: Drum Beats
* 4. Composing Drum and Percussion Beats
* (a) Lesson/Project: Composing Drum and Percussion Beats
* 5. Writing Melodies
* (a) Lesson: Understanding the Piano Keyboard
* (b) Lesson: Melodic Dictations
* (c) Lesson: Evaluating Melodies
* (d) Lesson: Composing a Melody in D Dorian
* 6. Melodic Variations Using Rhythmic Alterations
* (a) Lesson: Melodic Fragments, Rhythmic Augmentation, And Rhythmic
Diminution
* 7. Creating More Variations
* (a) Lesson: Manually Changing the Pitch Level of Regions
* 8. Composing with Original Regions
* (a) Lesson/Project: D Melody Piece in Modified Sonata Allegro Form
* 9. The Sound FX Piece
* (a) Lesson: The Sound FX Piece: How Ideas Evolve Over Time
* (b) Lesson: The Sound FX Project: Creating Two Dimensional Sound
Image and Creating Sonic Space
* (c) Lesson: Using Reverb to Create Three Dimensional Space
* 10. Basic Keyboard Theory
* (a) Lesson: Whole and Half steps
* (b) Lesson: Generic Intervals Lesson Plan
* (c) Lesson: Basic Keyboard Theory: Understanding Major Scales
* 11. MIDI Remix
* (a) Lesson Plan: Analyzing a Remix 1
* (b) Lesson Plan: Analyzing a Remix 2
* (c) Lesson Plan: MIDI Remix
* 12. More Rhythms
* (a) Lesson Plan: More Rhythms
* (b) Rhythmic Improvisation
* 13. Dictations
* (a) Lesson Plan: Melodic Dictations
* 14. Melody Writing Drills
* (a) Creating Melodic Motives Lesson Plan
* (b) Lesson Plan: Motive Variations
* (c) Lesson Plan: Motive in Sequence
* (d) Lesson Plan: Improvising Melodies
* 15. More Melody Writing Drills
* (a) Lesson Plan: Compose to a Given Rhythm (Rhythmic Continuity)
* 16. Melody Forms
* (a) Lesson Plan: Question and Answer
* (b) Lesson Plan: AB Tonic/Dominant
* (c) Lesson Plan: Rondo
* 17. The Ringtone Project
* (a) Lesson Plan: The Ringtone Project
* 18. More Basic Keyboard Theory
* (a) Lesson Plan: Major and Minor Thirds
* (b) Lesson Plan: Understanding Triad Qualities
* (c) Lesson Plan: Building Triads on Scale Degrees
* 19. Chord Progressions
* (a) Lesson Plan: Basic Chord Progressions
* (b) Lesson Plan: Twelve Bar Blues
* (c) Lesson Plan: Given Chord Progressions from the Simple Map
* (d) Lesson Plan: Common Chord Progressions Not on the Simple Map
* 20. Accompaniment Patterns
* (a) Lesson Plan: Accompaniment Patterns
* 21. Putting it Together
* (a) Lesson Plan: Composing Four-Measure Melodies
* (b) Lesson Plan: Drone
* (c) Lesson Plan: Generic Parallel Intervals
* (d) Lesson Plan: Counter Melody
* (e) Lesson Plan: Adding Chords
* (f) Lesson Plan: Understanding Bass Notes
* (g) Lesson Plan: Creating a Bass Line Part 1
* (h) Lesson Plan: Creating Bass Line Part 2: Root and Fifth
* (i) Lesson Plan: Adding Drums and Syncing the Bass
* 22. Melody
* (a) Lesson Plan: Melodic Non-chord Tones
* 23. Composing Instrumental Music for Live Performance
* (a) Lesson Plan: Solo Flute or Violin Piece Project
* 24. The Art Project: Rondo Form
* (a) Lesson Plan: The Art Project: Rondo Form
* 25. Introducing Audio and Audio Editing
* (a) Lesson Plan: The Speech Project
* (b) EQ
* 26. More Advanced Audio
* (a) Lesson Plan: The Radio Commercial Project
* (b) Lesson Plan: The Podcast
* 27. Aural Reporting
* (a) Lesson Plan: Aural Reporting
* 28. Music for Video
* (a) Lesson Plan: Music for Video
* Appendix
* Reading Rhythms with Rhythm States
* Piano Supplement Printed Material
* Piano Supplement Video Lessons
* Index