Introduction

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Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Identify musical notes including whole note, half note, quarter note, and eighth rest
  • Identify musical rests including whole rest, half rest, quarter rest, and eighth rest
  • Identify the elements of a music staff including lines, spaces, clef, time signature, bar line, and bars (measures)

Enduring Understandings

  • Through the arts, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.
  • Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Arts Survey standards: 1, 3.

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