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Ultimate Substitute Teacher’s Music Resource Guide Contents

Activities for K–2 Teacher Level* Page NumberMusic Assessment Worksheet ............................................................2-3 ....................................................... 2Understanding Loud and Soft ............................................................1-3 .......................................................4Learn to Listen .......................................................................................1-3 ....................................................... 6The Name Game ....................................................................................1-3 ....................................................... 7Feel the Beat ...........................................................................................1-3 ....................................................... 8Put on Your Listening Ears ..................................................................1-3 ....................................................... 9The Same or Different? .........................................................................1-3 .....................................................10Count and Clap ......................................................................................1-3 ..................................................... 11

Activities for K–4Create Your Own Music ......................................................................1-3 .....................................................12Meet the Classical Composers ...........................................................1-3 .....................................................14Follow the Conductor ...........................................................................1-3 .....................................................16

Activities for Grade 3–4Songs with Sounds ................................................................................1-3 ..................................................... 17Music Assessment Worksheet ............................................................2-3 .....................................................18Match the Instruments ........................................................................1-3 .....................................................20Reviewing Note Values ........................................................................2-3 .....................................................22Let’s Rest Awhile ...................................................................................2-3 .....................................................24Note Speller ............................................................................................2-3 .....................................................26Musical Crossword Puzzle ..................................................................1-3 .....................................................28

Activities for Grades 3–6Sing with Do, Re, Mi .............................................................................2-3 .....................................................30Arranging Simple Songs .......................................................................2-3 .....................................................32Name That Tune and Other Fun Games ..........................................1-3 .....................................................34Musical Memory Add-a-Note ............................................................2-3 ..................................................... 37Music in Images and Words ................................................................1-3 .....................................................38Identify the Instruments ......................................................................1-3 .....................................................39Musical Symbol Search ........................................................................2-3 .....................................................42The Alphabet Game ..............................................................................1-3 .....................................................44Composer Gallery .................................................................................1-3 .....................................................46Pass the Rhythm ....................................................................................1-3 .....................................................48

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Activities for Grades 5–6 Teacher Level* Page NumberMusical Story Time ...............................................................................1-3 .....................................................49Music Assessment Worksheet ............................................................2-3 .....................................................50Who’s Who in Classical Music? ..........................................................1-3 .....................................................52Draw with Musical Symbols ...............................................................2-3 .....................................................54Musical Definitions ...............................................................................2-3 .....................................................56Mystery Composers ..............................................................................1-3 .....................................................58Instrument Name Game ......................................................................1-3 .....................................................60Rhythm Shuffle ......................................................................................2-3 .....................................................62Creative Composing .............................................................................2-3 .....................................................64Notespeller .............................................................................................2-3 .....................................................66Musical Styles Scramble ......................................................................1-3 .....................................................68Once Upon a Musical Story ................................................................2-3 .....................................................70Musical Crossword Puzzle ..................................................................1-3 .....................................................72Word Symphony ....................................................................................1-3 .....................................................74Exploring the Orchestra ......................................................................2-3 .....................................................75

AppendixComposers in Music History ..........................................................................................................................78Glossary of Musical Terms ..............................................................................................................................80Piano Fingering Chart ......................................................................................................................................83Parts of the Guitar .............................................................................................................................................84Guitar Chord Chart ..........................................................................................................................................85Recorder Fingering Chart ................................................................................................................................86Music Staff Paper .............................................................................................................................................. 87

*Teacher LevelLevel 1—No music knowledge or backgroundLevel 2—Some music knowledge (played an instrument or sang in the choir at some time)Level 3—Well-rounded music knowledge (music degree)

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Music Assessment Worksheet Teacher PageGrades 3–4

This worksheet is a useful tool to determine what your new class knows, and perhaps more importantly, what they don’t know. If you will be teaching your class for several days, start by using this information sheet to choose which activity you might want to focus on first. Be sure to let the students know this is not a test—you are just gathering information to plan your lessons for the coming days.

STUDENT WORKSHEET:

1. Match the picture of the instrument with its name:

2. Name the lines or spaces marked on the staff below:

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Composers in Music HistoryMUSIC OF ANCIENT TIMES Before 500 Monophonic music (Chinese, Greeks, Hebrews) Christian chant

MEDIEVAL PERIOD (500-1450) 590–604 Gregorian Chant 1100–1450 Organum, motets, early rounds

RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1450–1600)Essential composers: 1525–1594 Giovanni Palestrina (Italy) 1548–1611 Tomás Luis de Victoria (Spain) 1571–1621 Michael Praetorius (Germany)

BAROQUE PERIOD (1600–1750)Essential composers: 1653–1706 Johann Pachelbel (Germany) 1659–1695 Henry Purcell (England) 1678–1741 Antonio Vivaldi (Italy) 1685–1750 Johann Sebastian Bach (Germany) 1685–1759 George Frideric Handel (Germany/England)

CLASSICAL PERIOD (1750 -1820)Essential composers: 1714–1788 C.P.E. Bach (Germany) 1732–1809 Franz Joseph Haydn (Austria) 1756–1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austria) 1770–1827 Ludwig van Beethoven (Germany)

ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820–1910)Essential composers: 1797–1828 Franz Schubert (Austria) 1809–1847 Felix Mendelssohn (Germany) 1810–1849 Frédéric Chopin (Poland/France) 1810–1856 Robert Schumann (Germany) 1811–1886 Franz Liszt (Hungary) 1813–1883 Richard Wagner (Germany) 1833–1897 Johannes Brahms (Germany) 1838–1875 Georges Bizet (France) 1839–1881 Modest Mussorgsky (Russia) 1840–1893 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia) 1841–1904 Antonín Dvořák (Bohemia) 1843–1907 Edvard Grieg (Germany)

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ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820–1910)Essential composers (cont.): 1844–1908 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russia) 1860–1911 Gustav Mahler (Bohemia/Austria) 1864–1949 Richard Strauss (Germany) 1873–1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russia)

IMPRESSIONISM PERIOD (1890–1915)Essential composers: 1862–1918 Claude Debussy (France) 1875–1937 Maurice Ravel (France)

TWENTIETH-CENTURY (1915–current)Essential composers: 1854–1932 John Philip Sousa (United States) 1868–1917 Scott Joplin (United States) 1872–1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams (England) 1874–1951 Arnold Schoenberg (Austria) 1881–1945 Béla Bártok (Hungary) 1882–1971 Igor Stravinsky (Russia) 1891–1953 Sergei Prokofiev (Russia) 1898–1937 George Gershwin (United States) 1899–1974 Duke Ellington (United States) 1900–1990 Aaron Copland (United States) 1900–1971 Louis Armstrong (United States) 1912–1992 John Cage (United States) 1918–1990 Leonard Bernstein (United States) 1932–Living John Williams (United States) 1937–Living Philip Glass (United States) 1943–Living Joseph Schwanter (United States) 1961–Living Wynton Marsalis (United States)

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Glossary of Musical TermsAccent ( ) Make stronger. Emphasize.

Bar Line ( ) A vertical line that divides a musical staff into measures.

Bass Clef ( ) F clef. Locates F below middle C on the music staff.

Beat A unit of time or rhythm.

Chord Three or more pitches sounded together.

Clef A sign at the beginning of the staff which indicates the names of the lines and spaces.

Composer A person who writes music.

Conductor The director of a band or orchestra.

Crescendo ( ) Gradually getting louder.

Decrescendo ( ) Gradually getting softer.

Dotted Half Note ( ) = 3 beats.

Duet A composition for two musicians.

Dynamics Volume level of the music. How loud or soft it should be played.

Eighth Note ( ) = ½ beat

Eighth Rest ( ) = ½ beat of silence

Fermata ( ) Pause. Hold.

Fine The end.

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Half rest ( ) = 2 beats of silence

Harmony When two or more different pitches are played at the same time.

Improvising Adding rhythmic or melodic variations to a song that are not written down in the music.

Instrument Something that makes a musical sound.

Keyboard Instruments Instruments with keys or buttons that are pushed to make a sound (Ex. piano, accordion).

Key Signature One or more flats or sharps that appear at the beginning of a piece of music.

Measure ( ) The space on a music staff between two bar lines.

Melody A musical sentence.

Mezzo Forte ( mf ) Medium loud.

Mezzo Piano ( mp ) Medium soft.

Percussion Instruments that are struck to make a sound (Ex. drums, cymbals).

Phrase A musical sentence, several measures in length.

Piano ( p ) Soft.

Pianissimo ( pp ) Very soft.

Pitch A specific musical tone.

Quarter Note ( ) = 1 beat

Quarter Rest ( ) = 1 beat of silence

Repeat Sign ( ) Go back to the beginning and play again

Rests Musical symbols which indicate silence.

Rhythm The long and short sounds in a musical phrase

Ritardando (rit.) Gradually slowing down.

Round A song that can overlap itself as each part enters in unison at equal time intervals.

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Scale A series of eight pitches, can be major or minor.

Sharp ( ) Raises a pitch ½ step.

Slur ( ) A curved line that connects two or more notes of different pitch.

Staccato ( ) Musical symbol indicating to play a note short and crisply.

Staff ( ) Five parallel lines and four spaces on which music is written.

String Instruments Instruments that are plucked or strummed to make a sound. (Ex. guitar, harp)

Tempo The speed of the music.

Tie ( ) A curved line that connects two or more notes of the same pitch.

Time Signature Tells how many beats in a measure and what kind of note gets one beat.

Treble Clef ( ) G clef. Locates G above middle C on the music staff.

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