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them to use it to introduce songs at your concerts. Green screen technology and iPad videos are easy to make. The students can read explanations about what they learned from each piece and add sounds and visual effects that will impress your audience with their understanding of the music.
• Cultural Song Study – If you are lucky enough to have students from different cultures and countries in your class, present a song from their culture or country from your text and ask the students if this song is sung at home. Ask the stu- dents to help with pronunciation of world language songs, background information, or even if this song is authentic. Make them your experts. Ask them to do research about the song with their parents and grand- parents.
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Unlike any other music camp in the state, our program is designed to give students an immersion experience by providing concentrated study on their primary instrument for a minimum of four hours per day.
Students select their concentration for the week: • voice • piano • violin • viola
• trumpet
• double bass • piccolo • saxophone • guitar • cello
• tuba
• trombone • oboe • euphonium • clarinet • percussion • drumset • flute
• composition We also offer Video Production Camp!
• A cappella Study – When we teach beginning harmony, staying on your own part is often a chal- lenge for young singers. Listen to some great examples of singing by groups like Pentatonix and other a cappella groups to emphasize how they each have a distinct part to sing. Have students create their own a cappella song using a simple melody like “Twinkle, Twinkle” or “Are You Sleeping” and have melody singers and background singers who repeat other sounds or melodic fragments to create layers. There is even an a cappella app that is pretty cool.
These are just a few examples. There are lots more ideas. So, listen to your children and be creative. Ask them what they are listening to and why it appeals to them. Challenge them to find out what musical
elements are in the music and how those elements create a feeling inside them when they listen to it.
It is the teacher’s responsibility to bring quality examples into the classroom. All genres and cultures have great music. What we want to bring to our kids is the best literature possible.
Bridging the gap between what a student has experienced and what new music we wish them to learn is based on a mutual respect of all kinds of music. By connect- ing our lessons with music that students value tells the student that we value it as well. It is this sharing of music that has been connecting people for centuries.
Kathy Bartling is a general music teacher for Waunakee Community Schools and is a member of the Wisconsin CMP Committee. Email:
kbartling@waunakee.k12.wi.us
Wisconsin School Musician
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