Students compose and notate short melodies using their names.
Students compose and notate short 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 rhythms across multiple class periods.
Students compose and notate short rhythms in 4/4, 3/4, and 6/8 meters across multiple class periods.
Students create and perform melodic contours.
Video of Beethoven crescendo
SPARK follows Artistic Director Margaret Jenkins as she rehearses her company dancers in preparation for "Danger Orange," an outdoor site-specific performance in downtown San Francisco. This Educator Guide is about the history of modern dance and the contributions of some its most innovative choreographers, including Jenkins.
SPARK follows Artistic Director Margaret Jenkins as she rehearses her company dancers in preparation for "Danger Orange," an outdoor site-specific performance in downtown San Francisco. This Educator Guide is about the history of modern dance and the contributions of some its most innovative choreographers, including Jenkins.
Explores aesthetic and technical underpinnings of contemporary dance composition. Basic compositional techniques discussed and practiced with an emphasis on principles such as weight, space, time, effort, and shape. Principles of musicality considered and developed by each student. Working together, students create short compositions to help them understand the range of possibilities available when working with the medium of the human body. Selected viewing and reading exercises augment classroom work. Class attends at least two professional dance events in the Boston area.
Video of symphony orchestra decrescendo
This course will examine theory of scenic design as currently practiced, as well as historical traditions for use of performance space and audience/performer engagement. Four play scripts and one opera or dance theater piece will be designed after in-depth analysis; emphasis will be on the social, political and cultural milieu at the time of their creation, and now.
Mix and match music vocabulary
Students play an identification game of hot and cold using their voices and dynamics.
Video of Haydn "Surprise Symphony"
Video of sheet music "The Four Seasons"
Examines traditional forms of East Asian culture (including literature, art, performance, food, and religion) as well as contemporary forms of popular culture (film, pop music, karaoke, and manga). Covers China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with an emphasis on China. Attention given to women's culture. The influence and presence of Asian cultural expressions in the US are also considered. Use made of resources in the Boston area, including the MFA, the Children's Museum, and the Sackler collection at Harvard. Taught in English.
Students explore expressive qualities in music through listening, singing, and moving.
Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.
Students explore phrases in poetry and in song.
Students explore steady beat and instruments of the percussion family.
Students explore expressive qualities through various string techniques.