All Activities
-
Air Drawing: Contour
Explore rising and falling melodic linesLevel 3
-
Air Drawing: Feeling
Use motion to explore the musical elements of a pieceLevel 3
-
Audience Composition Activity
Write a piece with your audienceLevel 4
-
Compositional Inspiration
Share what inspired a pieceLevel 1
-
Compositional Tools
Share what a composer uses to make musicLevel 1
-
Conducting 101
Teach your audience to conductLevel 2-4
-
Conversation
Show your audience how instruments can speak to one anotherLevel 1
-
Create Your Own Adventure
Make a story with the audienceLevel 2-3
-
Dance Connections
Share the connections between dance and musicLevel 1-4
-
Finger Puppet
Fingers and imagination bring the music to lifeLevel 3-4
-
Form & Rhetoric
Give your audience a road map to the pieceLevel 1
-
Groove Machine
Turn the audience into a rhythm sectionLevel 2-3
-
Groove Machine: Orchestration
Use a groove to introduce the different instrumentsLevel 1
-
Instrument Family Intro
Help your audience meet the different instrumentsLevel 2-3
-
Interactive Singing
Turn the audience into a choirLevel 1-3
-
Introspective Feeling
Connect your audience to their emotionsLevel 1-2
-
Lyricize
Create lyrics and sing them with your audienceLevel 2-4
-
Mad Libs Lyrics
Fill in the blanks and have funLevel 4
-
Meditative Performance
Meditate with your audienceLevel 1
-
Melody, Theme, or Motif
Explore the melody with your audienceLevel 1-2
-
Musical Moods
Use the same passage to show many emotionsLevel 1-3
-
Percussion For All
Use found sounds to turn your audience into percussionistsLevel 4
-
Personal Connection Prose
Share the personal importance of a piece with your audienceLevel 1
-
Rhythmic Roulette
Experiment with transforming your melody into new meters and rhythmsLevel 1-3
-
Scene Painting
Connect the music to an imaginary or real imageLevel 1-2
-
Scene Painting: Drawing Edition
Turn the audience into visual artistsLevel 2-3
-
Storytelling
Connect the music to an imaginary or real narrativeLevel 1-2
-
Texture Trials & Chamber Music Challenge
Experiment with trading roles amongst different instrumentsLevel 2-3
-
Timbre Time
Explore the sounds of different instrumentsLevel 1-4
