Outside the Lines

Outside the Lines A New Approach to Composing in the Cassroom By Mark Burrows Book 51 pages For grades 2-6, Each composition activity in this resource is designed to free your students so they can focus on expressing their creative ideas without worrying about breaking any musical "rules." The result is a set of activities that fulfill the National Standards of Music Education yet are accesssible and enjoyable. Reproducible.Students will be invited to work with everything from picture notation to a one-line staff as they participate in composition activities that are educational, rewarding, invigorating and fun! Students can compose a soundtrack, shape a river of sound, create a soundscape to accompany a famous painting, even build a cool percussion groove using box notation. But, most of all, your students will learn that composing is all about communicating, creating and connecting!Contents:National Standards for Music EducationRiver of SoundThe One-Line StaffBoomwhacker MelodiesSound CollageFamous Painting SoundscapesThe Rhythm of WordsPoetry PiecesBox NotationGraphic Scores - 9-Square, 16-Square, For One Rhythm Instrument, FreestyleDynamics SoundscapesMusical MoodsPiggyback SongsTone PoemCompose a SoundtrackHand ScoresImprovisation