Music: Its Language, History, and Culture | Body Mapping Presentation | Brooklyn College | Spring 2023
This Body Mapping presentation accompanies the Body Mapping activity also available on this platform. This is a great ice-breaker to get to […]
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Music: Its Language, History, and Culture | Body Mapping Activity | Brooklyn College | Spring 2023
This Body Mapping activity is a great ice-breaker to get to know your students. I tie in Habitus and emphasize a process […]
Musicianship 2 | Solfege Handout | College of Staten Island | Spring 2023
Handout with singing activities for moveable-do solfege. Includes explanations of major and minor scales, chromaticism, and modes. Instructor: Scott A. Miller Course: […]
Writing Across the Curriculum | “Believing and Doubting” | Lehman College | Fall 2022
An activity meant to spur critical analysis of a shared reading. A handful of important quotes are placed on digital or physical […]
Introduction to Music | First Day Interviews | Queens College | Fall 2022
An icebreaker activity for the first day of class. Instructor introduces the idea of the “Three Bs” in classical music, before introducing […]
Introduction to Music | Peer Review Interviews | Queens College | Spring 2022
Peer review pair activity intended for early stage of the writing process. Students ask each other questions about their project and record […]
Introduction to Music | Dance Notation Group Activity | Queens College | Fall 2019
A small group activity in which students interpret an example of Renaissance dance notation: “The Washerwoman’s Branle,” taken from Thoinot Arbeau’s 1589 […]
Introduction to Music | Sacred Music Group Activity | Queens College | Fall 2019
In-class activity for small groups of 3-4 students; intended to review the musical characteristics associated with four genres of sacred music: plainchant; […]
Popular Music Harmony | “Introduction to Modes” Activity | City College | Spring 2020
I used this handout in class to introduce the modes and how they can be found in popular repertoire. We worked through […]
Sight Singing 1 | Ear Training Exercises | Queens College | Fall 2018
Extremely rudimentary (introductory), graded ear training exercises designed to loosen the tongue and guide the student through rhythmic and diatonic patterns of […]
