This unit focuses on developing the students' abilities to generate, explore and develop ideas for artistic expression, both individually and in groups.
Citations appear in full in the bibliography, alphabetized by title.
Make a list of sounds that can be created in the classroom. Find adjectives such as dry, ringing, dead, loud, flat to describe the timbres. Organize the sounds into similar sound groups. For instance, group together all the sounds that are light and airy, those that have a mellow sound, those that are eerie, etc. In small groups, using a variety of traditional, found and homemade instruments, have students compose short rhythmic ostinatos that can be easily repeated.