How Sound Is Made: Instruments and Ensembles: Music Unit 3, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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How Sound Is Made: Instruments and Ensembles is Unit 3 of Listening Across Cultures: An Introduction to Music Appreciation (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Music course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 56 pages.

• The five instrument families defined by vibrating mechanism (aerophone, chordophone, membranophone, idiophone, electrophone)
• Timbre as an audible clue to an instrument’s vibrating mechanism
• The distinction between playing technique and vibrating mechanism
• The five instrument families defined by vibrating mechanism, applied beyond taught examples
• Ensemble roles of melody, harmony, and rhythm within a multi-instrument texture
• The relationship between an ensemble’s function or cultural setting and the instrument families it favors
• The general logic of classifying any sound source by its vibrating mechanism, extended beyond the five named families
• The five instrument family names and one example each
• The audible evidence (specific timbral feature) that supports an instrument-family classification

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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