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Composers Datebook

Sound Learning Monthly Feature: Composers Datebook

Passion, vanity, and beauty. For May, Sound Learning features Composers Datebook from American Public Media. Each day, Composers Datebook presents a wealth of information about a specific composer and historic musical events in a two-minute program.

Use the two-minute program to introduce your students to a wide variety of music or to sprinkle your curriculum with col-orful tidbits like how Handel's coat button saved him in a duel with his closest friend. Included on the program's website are vetted links to information about the profiled composer that day. Whether your students are studying Louis Armstrong, JS Bach, or Frank Zappa, Composers Datebook has an archive of 1400 programs that will most likely have information on a composer your students are studying.

Included with this month's feature are lesson templates and selected resources correlated with the Minnesota Academic Standards in the Arts. Use the templates to quickly integrate Composers Datebook into your music curriculum or create interdisciplinary lessons.

Use these templates to help you create lessons with the material in the American Public Media's Composers Datebook.
Lesson template for music appreciation lesson using the Facets Model.
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Lesson template for conducting research on composers featured on Composer's Datebook.
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Selected Resources
Use these resources to help you integrate Composers Datebook into your arts curriculum:

DocumentComposers Datebook Web site

DocumentComposers Datebook archive

PDFFacets Model worksheet

PDFKWL-Plus Composer Research worksheet

PDFComposer Research summary



DocumentSign up for the Composers Datebook transcript and audio link to be e-mailed to your classroom each school day.



DocumentBandQuest.org (a project from the American Composers Forum)



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