Resource Materials
The following resource materials are used in conjunction with the Music Alive Program: -
- Music Alive Program Song
- Shubert’s Party
- Introducing Beethoven
- Let’s Go Mozart!
- Vivaldi and the Four Seasons
Music Alive Program Song: "Music Alive"
This bilingual song was written especially for the Music Alive Program by Alberta musician and teacher Sherryl Sewepagaham!
Sheet music:
MP3 audio:
- English/Cree Version, performed by Sherryl Sewepagaham
- French/Cree Version, performed by Catherine Kubash
Please feel free to arrange, adapt, or translate this song for your students. We are currently working on providing translations in other Canadian aboriginal languages – stay tuned!
Schubert's Party
Schubert Instructional Unit for Saskatchewan - audio tracks
- Track 1 Simple Rhythms
- Track 2 Percussion Accompaniment
- Track 3 Percussion Performance Accompaniment
- Track 4 Solfege Review
- Track 5 Do as "C"
- Track 6 I-V Chord Progression: tonic
- Track 7 I-V Chord Progression: Open Chord Triad
- Track 8 I-V Chord Progression: Chords Only
- Track 9 I-V Chord Performance
Introducing Beethoven
- Teacher Resource Kit (750k)
- The Dynamic Mr. Beethoven: Instructional Unit (for Alberta)
- Beethoven: His Music in our Lives: Instructional Unit (for Saskatchewan)
Beethoven: His Music in Our Lives - Audio Tracks
- Track 1 Reviewing Rhythmic Reading
- Track 2 Reviewing Rhythmic Reading
- Track 3 Reading Melody: 2 Notes
- Track 4 Reading Melody: 3 Notes
- Track 5 Reading Melody: 5 Notes
- Track 6 Aboriginal Circle Game ("Pêyak, Nîso, Nisto")
Let's Go Mozart!
- Teacher Resource Kit (750k)
- Student Newspaper Guide (5.8 mb)
- Instructional Unit for Saskatchewan (2 mb)
- Audio track connected to the Mozart Instructional Unit for Saskatchewan:
- Listen to Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra perform Mozart's Symphony No. 29 in A major.
- Instructional Unit for Alberta (2 mb)
- Exercises on Mozart's Divertimento for Strings - Audio tracks connected to the Mozart Instructional Unit for Alberta:
Vivaldi and the Four Seasons:
- Teacher Resource Kit (3.9 mb)
- Student Newspaper Guide (11.3 mb)
- Listen to Pinchas Zukerman and the National Arts Centre Orchestra perform Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
- Instructional units for Alberta and Saskatchewan
- Spring Into Rhythm - audio tracks connected to the Alberta Instructional Unit (page 11):
Download these free resources for use in your classroom. We encourage you to tailor these Instructional Units to suit your own curriculum requirements for elementary Music even if you are not from Alberta or Sasketchewan.
To view these files you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader from here for free.
Curriculum Credits:
For Alberta: Lesson plans by Dr. Robert de Frece, Professor of Music and Music Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton
For Saskatchewan: Lesson plans by Ms. Janie Fries, Curriculum Specialist, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Drawing by Grade 5 students at Crowfoot School, Siksika, Alberta
