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Musical Art (Series: Sheet Music From Canada’s Past)
 
Descriptive Record for Educational Resource No. 29
Subject:
Language Arts | Visual Arts | Music
Topic:
Canada; History; 1900-1999; Music; Sound recordings--Album covers; Songs; Music title pages
Grade Level:
Grades 7, 8 | Grades 9-12 | Secondary I-V (Quebec) | Senior 1-4 (Manitoba)
Type of Learning Resource:
Classroom Activities
Description:
This learning opportunity explores music from Canada's past and invites the students to use sound recordings from Library and Archives Canada's Virtual Gramophone site, and view sheet music cover art in Sheet Music from Canada's Past. Students will learn about and use all stages of the design process (specifications, research, experimentation, roughs, prototypes, revision, presentation and reflection) to create, in the role of commercial artist, CD cover art for an early twentieth-century Canadian song.
Duration:
135 min.
Author of Resource:
Ian Bron
Language:
English; French
Date:
2004-2-2
Curriculum Connections:
All Provinces/Territories: Language Arts: Grades 7-9
All Provinces/Territories: Music: Grades 7-9
All Provinces/Territories: Graphic Arts: Grades 7-9
Quebec: Language Arts: Secondary I to III
Quebec: Music: Secondary I to III
Quebec: Graphic Arts: Secondary I to III