Music Appreciation for High School Students
Learn more about the history of music, composers, performers, classical and contemporary musical works. Increase your understanding of why music is important in a school environment. View photos, listen to musical examples, learn about music auditions, take quizzes, and use the tutorials to enhance your knowledge about musical topics. Also included is a link to an eThemes resource on 20th Century Popular Music.
教育标准
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IPL2: Music History 102: a Guide to Western Composers and their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present
This site offers a brief history of the six eras of Western Classical music. NOTE: You will need a media player such as QuickTime or Windows media player to play the mp3 sound files on this site.
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Smithsonian Jazz
This site is devoted to American Jazz musicians. Learn more about these musicians, the instruments they played, view photographs, and listen to musical examples. Lesson plans and the Jazz 365 calendar can provide class discussions about jazz history.
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ThinkQuest: Interactive Symphony Guide
This site contains information about composers, symphonies, and music history. Learn more about the timeline of music history, listen to symphonic music examples, and test your knowledge of classical music by taking a 43-question quiz. NOTE: This site includes a discussion board.
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The Arts Music Lesson Plans
This site provides links to a variety of lesson plans dealing with music and its importance in students' lives.
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BBC: Music Evolution
This website features three pages of information relating to musical eras, when instruments were developed, and the evolution of music technology in more recent years. On the third page, click on "try a Test Bite" to take a quiz on what you've learned. NOTE: This site includes links to a message board.
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New York Times: Face the Music Academy
This NY Times article describes the process that musicians undergo in auditioning for professional symphonies and the hard work it takes.
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How to Become a Professional Guitarist and Musician
This website provides an well-founded opinion of what it takes, or does not take, to become a professional musician
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Professional Musician Tutorials
Watch these short video clips of professional musicians demonstrating how to play some of their most recognized songs.
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Why Music? PSAs
Learn more about the "Why Music?" campaign and scroll down and click on "Hear the PSAs" below the list of artists' names to listen to professional musicians make public service announcements about the importance of music education.
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VH1 Music Studio
While some of the dates are older on this site, the information is still relevant in helping students understand and articulate why music is important in our schools. A series of other lesson plans are available by clicking the "VH1 CIC Programming" tab and then clicking on each of the underlined links.
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Benefits of Music Education
This website gives statistics supporting the importance of music education in being successful in society, school, developing intelligence, and in life.
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Classics for Kids
Click on the composer's name to read a their biography and listen to a musical example of their work. NOTE: Music clips are not available for all composers.
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Smithsonian: The Star-spangled Banner: Song
Click on any of the sub-headings in the red "Song" box to learn more about different aspects of the United States' national anthem.
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Music Theory
Use these music theory lessons and trainers to better develop your knowledge of key signatures, time signatures, intervals, triads, and more.
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Audition Tips for Musicals
If you're interested in auditioning for a Broadway musical this site provides information about how to find the right song, how to take a good photograph for a head shot, and gives tips from professionals on Broadway.
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eThemes Resource: Music: 20th Century Popular Music
These sites are about twentieth century popular music and musicians. There are biographies, song lyrics, audio and video files, and lesson activities. Learn about popular music and its relationship to popular culture from the turn of the 20th century to the present. Here you will find information on such genres as country, folk, blues, jazz, rock, and more. Included is an eThemes resource on musical genres.
