Students will become inventors as they design new ways of making music and new instruments. Each student will do a report on an instrument or a type of music. Each student will create a new instrument or type of music. Music is constantly evolving. Discuss the ways in which the examples are different.
Small groups create movements that reflect the style of one of the recorded examples, above.
Listen to recordings of modern and contemporary composers to see how they have used new ideas. Recordings of whale sounds are integrated into an orchestral composition. Feiulles Mortes, by Claude Debussy P. 309, Sharing the Music , Grade 4 Debussy invented the whole tone scale, which makes his music have a distinct sound. His music is associated with Impressionism, a style of art and music. The teacher can demonstrate the whole tone scale.