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Unit Lesson – Contextual Listening

Lesson #1

Objective: Students will aurally analyze a composition based on seven categories: medium,

melody, harmony, meter, form, style, and composer.

Categories:

1. Medium – Students should list the instruments or voices that are being performed in the

excerpt.

2. Melody – Students should describe the melody that is being performed in the excerpt.

3. Harmony – Students should describe the harmony that is being performed in the excerpt.

4. Meter – Students should describe the meter that is being performed in the excerpt.

5. Form – Students should describe the form that is being performed in the excerpt.

6. Style – Students should describe the style that is being performed in the excerpt.

7. Composer – Students should list the composer or possible composers of the excerpt that

is being performed

Assessing Prior Knowledge: Students are not expected to have any prior knowledge to this

exercise in the beginning stage. However, students may have some knowledge of the categories

to the evaluation. Most students may know information concerning medium, meter, style, and

composer.

Teacher Input:

Each student will use the given handout to complete this assignment. (Worksheet on page 4.)

Students will use each category to aurally analyze and describe what they hear from the excerpt.

NO information will be given prior to the first listening.

Selected Excerpt: Use a musical excerpt that you are very familiar with and can correctly analyze

and describe each category to your student. Below is a variety of selections that you could use to

begin the process.

Possible Examples of Musical Excerpts:

1. Glenn Miller – “In the Mood”

2. Mozart – “Adagio Movement, Clarinet Concerto”

3. Ravel – “Bolero”

4. Pachelbel – “Canon in D”

5. Percy Grainger – “Molly on the Shore”

6. Wagner – “Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral”

7. Maynard Ferguson – “Gospel John”

8. Norah Jones – “Don’t Know Why”

9. Dizzy Gillespie – “Manteca”

10. Stravinsky – Firebird Suite

Contextual Listening Lesson Plan Template