Week 1

Welcome to your first day of school! I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Many of your lessons below have an internet link for you to click on. When you go to the different internet pages for your lessons, please DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell you to. DO NOT click on any advertisements or games. DO NOT click on anything that takes you to a different website. Just stay focused on your lesson and then close that window and you should be right back here for the next lesson. Okay?

1. If you didn’t get here through My EP Assignments, I suggest you go there and create an account.
   • This is a once-a-week course. It will appear on your My EP lesson page on days ending in 1 and 6.
2. Let’s review the types of woodwind instruments. Choose woodwinds . Click on each one to read about it. Click the play button to listen to it played.
3. This is the end of your work for this course for your first day. You are allowed to move at your own pace (this is homeschooling), but it’s intended you complete one lesson each week.

Week 2

1. Let’s review the types of string instruments. Choose strings . Click on each one to read about it. Click the play button to listen to it played.

Week 3

1. Let’s review the types of percussion instruments. Choose percussion. Click on each one to read about it. Click the play button to listen to it played. time.

Week 4

What was Iroquois music like?

Iroquois water drum

The two most important Iroquois instruments are drums and flutes. Native Iroquois drums were often filled with water to give them a distinctive sound different from the drums of other tribes. Most Iroquois music is very rhythmic and consists mostly of drumming and lively singing. Flutes were used to woo women in the Iroquois tribes. An Iroquois Indian man would play beautiful flute music outside a woman’s longhouse at night to show her he was thinking about her.

Week 6

1. This time learn about the keyboard instruments. You can listen while you read!
2. Harpsichord – read and listen
3. Piano – read and listen
4. Organ – read and listen

Week 9

1. Read about Vivaldi and listen to this bio.
2. Try to recognize each instrument family in the music.
3. Tell someone about the composer.

Week 10

1. Read through this lesson on staff and clefs. Use your arrow keys or the arrow button on the screen to move the highlight to each line. With each line, there will be a new picture.
2. Tell someone what a music staff and clef are.

Week 11

Level 1-4

1. Ben Franklin’s Armonica
2. Have you ever run a wet finger around the edge of a glass to make a sound?
3. The “armonica” works in a similar way, making vibrations depending on the size of the glass bowl.
4. Ben Franklin said it was his invention that gave him the most personal satisfaction.

Level 5-8

1. Ben Franklin’s Armonica
2. Resonance is an object’s tendency to vibrate at a set frequency. When you hit the C note on the piano, it always sounds the same because the sound is caused by a vibration, and a string at that length will always vibrate at the same speed.
3. Read about resonance in the armonica.

Week 12

1. Take a look again at the names of the lines and spaces on the treble clef.
2. Try and name the notes.

Week 13

1. Take a look again at the names of the lines and spaces on the treble clef.
2. Try and name the notes. Click on Note Names.

Week 14

1. Listen to Revolutionary War songs.
   • Green Mountain Boys
   • Yankee Doodle
   • Free America
2. What instrument groups do you hear in each song?

Week 15

1. Take a look again at the names of the lines and spaces on the treble clef.
2. Try and name the notes.

Week 16

1. Read about Beethoven and listen to the bio.
2. Tell someone about the composer.

Week 17

1. Read the lesson on note duration. (If that links disappears, here is the same thing elsewhere.)
2. Draw each type of note and label it.

Week 18

1. Read about Haydn and listen to his bio.
2. Tell someone about the composer.

Week 19

1. Read about time signatures.
2. Explain to someone what a time signature is.

Week 20

1. Read about Mozart and listen to his bio.
2. Identify parts of the music where you can hear each of the instrument families: strings, percussion, woodwinds and brass.
3. Tell someone about the composer.

Week 21

1. Learn about the different types of rests.
2. Draw each kind of rest and label it.

Week 22

1. Listen to the Star-Spangled Banner. Read the lyrics as you listen. We know the first verse as the American national anthem, but this has the second verse of the poem as well.

Week 23

1. Do the lesson on dots and ties. Use a laptop (not a mobile device). Click the forward button at the bottom of the screen to move through the lesson. You’ll notice a speaker when you get to one of the points. Click on it to hear how it is played. (There is no speaker if you use a mobile device for this assignment. Please use a computer.)

Week 24

1. Listen to pioneer music. (The song Cindy isn’t working.)

Week 25

1. Read about Johannes Brahms and listen to his bio.
2. Listen for the different instrument families.
3. Tell someone about this composer.

Week 26

1. Learn about steps and accidentals.

Week 27

Level 1-4

1. Read to learn about slave spirituals. Read what’s in the yellow boxes.
2. Listen to a famous spiritual, Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
3. If you would like to read some song lyrics, here’s a site with tons of lyrics to spirituals.

Level 5-8

1. Read to learn about slave spirituals. Read the first part of the page. Stop after the yellow boxes when you get to the next date.
2. Listen to a famous spiritual, Swing Low Sweet Chariot.
3. If you would like to read some song lyrics, here’s a site with tons of lyrics to spirituals.

Week 28

1. Read about Mendelssohn and listen to his bio.
2. Tell someone about the composer.

Week 29

1. Learn about scales. Listen to the scales. Click on the little speaker icons when they appear.
2. What’s the pattern for a scale?

Week 30

1. Read about Johann Strauss, Jr. and listen to his bio.
2. Listen to the Thunder and Lightening Polka.

Week 31

1. Listen to Dixie, a song of the Confederacy. Then listen to the Union’s version of the song.
2. What’s the difference?

Week 32

1. Last new lesson…learn about minor scales.
2. What is the pattern?

Week 33

1. Take a look again at the names of the lines and spaces on the treble clef.
2. Try and name the notes. Click on Note Names.

Week 34

1. Click on Compose Your Own Music.
2. Or click on blocks to build blocks and sounds. There are different colors on the left which are different sounds.

Week 35

1. Compose your own music.
2. Click on blocks to build blocks and sounds. There are different colors on the left which are different sounds.

Week 36

1. See if you know any of the answers about instruments in the orchestra. (I know it’s been a long time since you read about those!)
2. Or you can click on blocks to build blocks and sounds. There are different colors on the left which are different sounds.