This book showcases original works composed by sixth and eighth grade Music & Media students at Kate Bond Middle School during the first semester of the 2022-23 school year.

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Click on the audio buttons to hear students discussing their work, reading their poetry, and introducing their musical compositions. We hope you enjoy our book! Ken Greene - Music & Media teacher

Drawing to Music In Action!

Mallory Explains the Creative Choices She Made...

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Exploring the Connections Between Music and Visual Art

synesthesia sĭn″ĭs-thē′zhə (noun) When one sense (ex. hearing) is activated, another unrelated sense (ex. vision) is activated at the same time.

General Music Standard MU:Cn10.0.8

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

General Music Standard MU:Cn11.0.8

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

pre-assessment, Aug. 16 post assessment, Aug. 21

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Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

A Christmas Carol Theatre Memphis, 12/2/22

Drawing To Music: An Introduction to Synesthesia

OBJECTIVE I will be able to apply appropriate drumming technique in order to accurately perform simple rhythm patterns in a specific form (ABACA). General Music Standard MU:Pr6.1.8-a Perform the music with technical accuracy, stylistic expression, and culturally authentic practices in music to convey the creator’s intent.

Describe yourself in the following terms and explain why you made your choice: 1. What color(s) are you?&nbsp; (blue, yellow, orange…?) 2. What shape are you?&nbsp; (triangle, circle, squiggly line…?) 3. What tempo are you?&nbsp; (fast, moderate, slow…?) 4. What texture are you?&nbsp; (smooth like glass, rough like a wool sweater, prickly like a cactus, coarse like sandpaper…?) 5. What type of music are you?&nbsp; (are you a pop song, rap music, classical music, blues music, techno, gospel…?)

Synesthetic Speed Sketching: Illustrate What You Hear

While listening to various recorded selections, students made quick, creative, artistic decisions representing specific musical elements such as rhythm, melody, texture, and timbre, in order to demonstrate their understanding of synesthesia and the connection between music and visual art.

Synesthesia: Exploring the Connection Between Music and Visual Art

OBJECTIVES I will be able to apply appropriate guitar technique in order to accurately perform simple chords on a specific rhythm and on a steady beat; Working in a collaborative group, I will be able to apply appropriate guitar technique in order to accurately perform G-Major and E-minor chords on a specific rhythm and on a steady beat.

General Music Standard MU:Pr6.1.8-a Perform the music with technical accuracy, stylistic expression, and culturally authentic practices in music to convey the creator’s intent.

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Collaborative works created using the BandLab DAW (digital audio workstation)

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