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