iListenWI
Embracing Diversity Through Active Listening
Julie Ropers-Rosendahl and Jackie Vandenberg, iListenWI Committee Members
and to be efficient with your time. Your students can grow not only as musicians, but also as world citizens!
iListenWI Offerings
What does ancient Chinese poetry and composition with body percussion sounds have in common? What about those Afri- can drums sitting in your closet, and the xylophones from the band room that could come to your room to create a bicultural groove that’s Chinese-English rock? Or Chinese-African? Or Chinese-Latin? These are part of a lesson from the new iListenWI repertoire!
Chen Yi, composer of “Spring Dreams” from this year’s iListenWI repertoire list has stated: “I like to share my culture and music with others in order to improve the understanding between peoples from dif- ferent cultures.” Chen Yi interview
iListenWI can help you in your quest to find quality music, to be standards based,
The iListenWI committee is devoted to offering teachers resources to help their students develop and refine listening skills especially in the General Music K-8 setting. Differentiated lesson plans that suggest strategies to help teach and reinforce students’ understanding of the elements of music and culture, as well as help cover the WMEA Wisconsin Music Standards, are gathered in a digital and hard copy binder form. Many of the activities can also be used as learning as- sessment strategies (which save teacher planning time!). The unifying theme this year is “Destinations.”
Outcome-Based Examples
Here are three outcome-based examples of what you will find in this year’s iListenWI materials.
• With roots in China and now from Kansas City, MO, Chen Yi blends Chinese and Western music in her
“Spring Dreams.” Students will learn about using sound to depict ideas that together create some- thing new as well as create a proj- ect that combines characteristics of two cultures. “Spring Dreams”
• “The Alligator and the ‘Coon” by Virgil Thompson takes us to the Bayous of Louisiana where woodwind timbre and form will be explored. “The Alligator and the ‘Coon”
• Bingen, Germany was the home- town of Hildegard whose medieval style is explored in her “Canticles of Ecstasy.” In addition to the musical qualities of her writing, students will also study the life of a nun who lived, led leaders and composed music during a time dominated by men. Nunc aperuit nolus from “Canticles of Ecstasy”
Visit the online version of WSM for hyperlinked content within this article.
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