Description
What’s the best way to teach vocabulary for music? You probably have lots of ways that you incorporate the vocabulary of music into your lessons. And yet, you may still feel like you have to repeat music vocabulary definitions way more than you want to.
This Vocabulary for Music Word Wall is a great way for students to get tons of repetition with music vocabulary, without you having to say ANYTHING! A music word wall allows you to visually reinforce musical concepts you are teaching for students to absorb passively, and for them to reference as needed.
It can be used during lessons too! Similar vocabulary words (tempos, dynamics, etc) are all color coded to help visually organize information. Icons and pictures help illustrate information to help teach the diverse types of learners in your classroom.
What Are the Terms in Music I Need to Teach?
The Vocabulary for Music Word Wall has 118 music vocabulary words for elementary, sorted (and color-coded) into helpful categories. This set contains vocabulary words for everything from dynamicsand tempo to orchestral instruments, classroom instruments and so much more! All the music vocabulary words you could possibly want to teach you students.
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Product Details:
This Vocabulary for Music Word Wall contains 118 vocabulary cards for the following words:
- musical jobs: composer, conductor, musician
- elements of music: pitch, rhythm, timbre
- articulations: legato, staccato, marcato
- form: AB, ABA, AAB, ABC, rondo, intro, coda, interlude, round, theme and variation, call and response, verse and refrain
- groups: solo, duet, trio, quartet
- tempo: presto, allegro, moderato, andante, largo
- dynamics: pianissimo, piano, mezzo-piano, mezzo-forte, forte, fortissimo, crescendo, decrescendo
- tonality: major, minor, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian, locrian
- meter: duple, triple, unusual
- instruments of the orchestra:
- brass: trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba
- woodwind: flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, bass clarinet
- percussion: bass drum, timpani, xylophone, crash cymbals, snare drum
- keyboard: organ, piano
- strings: violin, viola, cello, string bass, harp
- classroom percussion:
- metals: triangle, finger cymbals, glockenspiel, metallophone
- woods: xylophone, woodblock, rhythm sticks, guiro
- shakers: maraca, tambourine, egg shakers, jingle bells
- membranes: hand drum, djembe, tubano, lollipop drum
- and more: audiate, ostinato, chord, chord root, progression, cadence, staff, unison, melody, harmony, pitched, unpitched
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