Students love this lesson! First we listen to music from all around the world with all different tempos and rhythms: Spanish guitar, Jazz, Classical, African dance, Japanese lyrical, American lullabies, etc. etc. etc. Then I have students draw various types of lines in crayon depending on what they hear. I demonstrate various lines and tempos prior while listening to music. There is an excellent book- Can You Hear It? that shows several famous works of art and includes a cd of songs that might go along with each piece. We also look at a bunch of Kandinsky's improvisations. After creating lines with crayon, students then use watercolors and paintbrushes to music to go back over their lines. Finally- we discuss all the different types of musical instruments we heard, and they get to decorate their instruments and glue them on.
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