Students explore different ways to change a simple sentence and melody to understand the concept of theme and variation.
Learn about the connections between the arts and the Earth. Make art at home using natural and recycled materials, travel the world to see some of the planet’s oldest paintings (in caves!), and check out an Earth-friendly music video featuring primary school students in Mamelodi Township, South Africa.
Students create nonsense syllables and improvise on a familiar or created melody.
In this video, a Virginia music educator shares three coral warm-ups highlighting Standard 13 in the Technique and Application strand of the 2020 Music Standards. These warm-ups provide a foundation of aural skills that can built upon later in the lesson, and throughout the year in songwriting and connections to essential skills necessary for success in music.
In this video (4:43), a Virginia music educator demonstrates how to compose and improvise music by creating a variation of a musical phrase using the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. technique.
In this video (7:06), a Virginia Music Educator shares strategies for reinforcing note learning and string technique. The foundational skills identified focus on correct hand position, finger placement and positions, and finger patters.
This is a playlist that contains 5 videos that are designed to help Middle and High School music teachers incorporate Appalachian music and dance into the curriculum. It was produced by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with staff from the VDOE.
Blue Ridge PBS created a video series in collaboration with the staff of the Virginia Department of Education called Virginia Roots: A Journey into Appalachian Music. Instructional resources were created to demonstrate effective classroom application of the media and concepts in standards-aligned sample lessons aligned to the 2020 Music Standards of Learning. The episode guide contains resources to accompany the Appalachian Music media including a description of the video, discussion prompts, and links to both the media and standards aligned instructional resources created by a team of Virginia educators.
Virginia Roots is a video series for middle and high school music that focuses on the role of Appalachian Music and is designed to help teachers incorporate traditional music and art forms into the curriculum.
Episode 5: The jam session is at the heart of old time music in Appalachia. In this episode we travel to Floyd, Virginia to the Handmade Music School's Old Time Get Together, an event that brings over a hundred musicians together each year to learn tunes "knee to knee". We also visited the Floyd Country Store, which has been hosting old time music for generations to learn how anyone can learn the basics so that they can join a jam session themselves, and the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum in Ferrum, VA, which also hosts a weekly jam..
Episode 1: This video discusses the most common instruments used in old time and bluegrass music. While the fiddle, guitar, and bass are largely unchanged in recent history, the banjo has consistently evolved to reflect advances in technology and manufacturing techniques. Music Historian and Program Director for Junior Appalachian Musicians' Jim Lloyd is joined by banjo player Lincoln Hensley to show the evolution of the banjo, the two main banjo playing styles, and tuning techniques.
Virginia Roots is a series produced by Blue Ridge PBS in collaboration with the VDOE and is designed to help music teachers incorporate Appalachian traditional music into the music curruiculum.
Becky Hill is a percussive dancer with extensive training and teaching experience, and she anchors this program while sharing the ways that Appalachian dancers are participants in the music and not just the audience.
Episode 3: In this video, Dr. Rene' Rogers, chief curator of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Bristol, VA/TN shares the importance of the 1927 Bristol Sessions, which resulted in the launch of prominent Appalachian musicians like the Carter Family and Jimmy Rogers, as well as producer Ralph Peer, among others. The evolution of recording equipment and techniques is tied to Bristol's central location for musical talent and traditions.
By listening to and looking at the qualities of various scales, students learn to identify the differences between the major, minor, and blues scales.
Students will gain an understanding of the vital role women have played in shaping the music of Appalachian Virginia. Students will be introduced to the contributions of women in early Appalachian music and their roles as musicians, composers, and cultural icons. They will examine the Carter family's influence on Appalachian music and explore and investigate the roles and contributions of women in bluegrass and old-time music and their influence on the preservation and transmission of traditional songs.