Choir · Week 7 · Ensemble Sound and Listening
Music and Emotion
Students listen to a choral work, name the emotions it stirs, and point to the musical elements that create them.
- Students will
- Students explain a choral work's expressive intent by naming the emotions they hear and pointing to musical elements such as tempo, dynamics, and harmony that create them.
- SEL skill
- Name an emotion music stirs and point to the musical evidence behind it
- What it looks like
- Students recognize their emotional responses to music and connect those responses to evidence in the sound.
- Content focus
- Music and emotion in a choral work
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your own feelings and thoughts and seeing how they connect to what you experience. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- MU:Re8.1.E.HSI: Music, Ensembles, Responding, Anchor Standard 8 (Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Responding
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-awareness activities for Choir
- My Voice, My Story Self-awarenessStudents share a song that matters to them and name the feelings singing brings up, from joy to nervousness.
- Composing a Feeling Self-awarenessStudents improvise and compose a short melody that expresses a chosen emotion.
- Semester Reflection Self-awarenessStudents reflect in writing on how their voice, confidence, and place in the ensemble have changed this semester.
- Expressive Choices Self-awarenessStudents interpret the text of a choral piece and decide on dynamics and phrasing that express its meaning.
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