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- The second grade world of Louis Armstrong
- Second grade students will explore the music of Louis Armstrong via booktalks, compact disc recordings, digital video disc recordings, and may pursue internet web-questing through Marco Polo (http://www.marcopolo-education.org) and http://www.redhotjazz.com as a bonus!
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Music Education)
- By Dirk Robertson.
- Notating a rainy day
- Using manipulatives, students will notate a familiar song.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Music Education)
- By Melissa Vincent.
- Boy singing in Malaysia
- This is a recording of a young boy, Izzudin (11), singing what is probably a popular song in Malaysia. He is singing in Bahasa Melayu. His little brother Aizzad (5) helps out a bit, as does his father when he forgets some lyrics. From my journal: Supposed...
- Format: audio
- High and low bears
- This is a lesson that introduces and reinforces the music concept of pitch.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Music Education)
- By Penny Adams-Manolas.
- A Ram Sam Sam: A Moroccan tune with a twist
- Students will enjoy singing, playing rhythm instuments, reading notations, and performing a Moroccan tune in two different musical styles on student keyboards.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 Music Education)
- By Marie Batten.
- Singing Vietnamese pop song on the bus
- In Vietnam, I recorded more men, women and children singing songs than in any other country I visited (twenty-one total.) Frequently, passenger buses will play popular music from the radio throughout the trip. On this overnight bus ride from Hoi An to Nha...
- Format: audio
- Cao Dai religious music and singing
- This music and singing was recorded during one of the regular Cao Dai religious ceremonies that occur four times daily. This temple in DaNang is the second largest after the headquarters which are located in Tay Ninh. Men enter the temple from the right, walk...
- Format: audio
- Exhilaration
- This example of Sacred Harp or shape-note singing was recorded in Alabama in 1979. The first part of the song has no lyrics; the singers sing only the names of the notes. The public radio documentary Sacred...
- Format: audio/music
- Nepali folk song
- It seemed that many Nepalis liked to sing traditional songs. In this recording, you can hear Tej, a local Pashupatinath singing a song with many different verses. You might also hear me talking with another Pashupatinath guide, Ajit. At one point, I interrupt...
- Format: audio
- Cao Dai religious music
- This music and singing was recorded during one of the regular Cao Dai religious ceremonies that occur four times daily. This temple in DaNang is the second largest after the headquarters which are located in Tay Ninh. Men enter the temple from the right, walk...
- Format: audio
- Call and response singing
- This lesson is a study of call and response singing, especially as it relates to African-American spirituals.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Music Education)
- By Melody Moore.
- The development of sacred singing
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 3.11
- In the first half of the nineteenth century, the music of southern white churches expanded to express a broader range of emotions. To help singers, "shape-note" tunebooks were developed with easy-to-read notation. Includes audio of present-day shape-note singing.
- Format: article
- By Gavin James Campbell.
- Developing continuous air during articulation
- Combining long tones and burst-tonguing will assist many beginning instrument players to eliminate excessive breaths while articulating.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)
- By Lynn Dale.
- Malay song and rhyme
- Two girls are singing childhood songs and reciting rhymes while I record. I met them at a hostel at Tasik Chini, a lake in Malaysia. Though I do not understand what I am saying, it is fun to try to repeat the words I am hearing. They will correct me when I...
- Format: audio
- Christian church service singing in Phnom Penh
- This is a recording of a Christian church service in Phnom Penh. Christianity, like all religions in Cambodia, was once prohibited from being practiced by Pol Pot and his genocidal regime. However, less than 20 years later, it is possible to find Christian...
- Format: audio
- Musical mountain
- Students will learn to hear the differences between low, middle, and high pitches. They will be able to visualize these differences by looking at the low, middle, and high points of a mountain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Music Education)
- By Margaret Harris.
- Fisk Jubilee Singers sheet music folio

- Cover of a sheet music folio entitled "Songs of the Jubilee Singers from Fisk University." The Fisk Jubilee Singers were a group of African American singers at Fisk University in Tennessee who sang spirituals and other American songs. The first incarnation...
- Format: image/document
- Nepali folk song: Resham Firiri
- Nepalis love singing folk songs, and this is by far their favorite. This is a recording of me and a Nepali guide, Tej, singing a very popular folk song, "Resham Firiri." Once you listen, you may be able to understand why it is such a popular song among the...
- Format: audio
- Wild and wacky warm-ups
- The lesson describes choral music warm-ups for improving singing posture, breath control, vowel placement, and rhythmic reading skills. Basic sight reading skills are reviewed and reinforced to enhance independent musicianship.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Music Education)
- By Georgia Stephens.
- Excerpt from William H. Robinson slave narrative
- William H. Robinson was born into slavery in Wilmington, North Carolina, one of 12 siblings. After slavery ended in 1865, he worked for many years as a traveling singer and banjo player, then attended Central Tennessee College and became a minister. In this excerpt, he writes about the secret meanings of many spirituals.
- Format: book