The Steps
Look: Concepts
Overview.
Why sound and song?
What is a song?
Loops, riffs & motives - the building blocks of music composition
The Whole Child Debate
Look: Technical
Do. Apple's GarageBand 09 screen movie tutorial.
If an alternative to GarageBand is needed, use the Myna
Audio Editor Tutorial. This application is online, free, ten tracks and comes with some sound loops for
composing. Announced Sept. 16, 2009.
How to Add Audio to a Google Sites web page.
Review Copyright and Multimedia Policy-learn
audio copy limitations.
Skim:
For more basic audio recording, try the Audacity
tutorials: download, install it on your Windows computer to edit
audio on that platform.
Acid Music Studio ($55) and its free to download
sibling, Acid Express (Windows only).
SongSmith. You sing, and the software creates
an automatic musical composition that supports it. Looks like beta
software but it is a free download. Children would really enjoy this.
Teaching
Beginners a book on teaching musical thought and ideas.
iCompositions,
a Web site for publishing, listening and critiquing computer music
compositions. Click the Music tab and look on the right for the number of songs available for listening in different genres.
Petrucci Music Library, as of 10/25/09, a growing virtual library of public domain music scores along with their analysis and discussion, containing over 43,544 scores of 2,585 composers as of 11/20/2009.
Introduction to Music Theory for the Masses
iPhone as musical instrument ; Mobile Phone Concert
Resources:
Free media of the digital palette to mix with any audio project.
List of both Web and desktop applications for audio composition activities
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Evoke
Your instructor will discuss options and variations for this chapter's assignments. Everyone does the first 3 bullets.
Create a musical composition using Magic GarageBand and
insert and use in the creation of a video composition that will be done during a later Video Composition chapter. [In-class activities.]
Create a multitrack audio composition (that's more than 1 track) that contributes to the unit plan theme that your team has chosen. Team members should share ideas with each other to prevent duplication within the team. Each team member does their own. Here are two suggestions. Create a radio news story using content ideas from the lesson plan. Find a poem without copyright problems or write your own poem, 1-2 minutes duration. If you are feeling innovative and have other creative ideas, run them past me first. Narrate this composition into an audio editor such as GarageBand, Myna or Audacity. Add other sound tracks such as special effects and music to go with the work. Use the knowledge learned in this chapter to export a sound track or tracks in mp3
file format.
Create a File Cabinet page at your Web site and upload the file into it, then link the mp3 file to an mp3 player on a Web page at your site. [In-class activity.]
eCROP site (link in Blackboard): contribute at least 1 question related to this chapter on audio and 1 contribution to someone else's question related to this chapter. They do not have to be in your own section.
Differentiated Activity
ELMG 566 - Graduate Students
Continue collection of references within RefWorks as part of stage two of the ERIC Research Project.
Interns
Intern I's, in the unit plan Web page, add in the information for section II and III for the Standard Course of Study competencies that will be used to guide the creation of the lesson plans to come later.
EDMG Sec 70
Read chapters 1 & 2 in the King's Treasure book.
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