Lesson Plan 6: Adding Notation to "Poor, Poor Arthur" Using "Autoscore"

Objective:

1. To create a score to the song the students created in lesson 5. (26.A.1d)

Classroom Material:

• Power Macintosh
• "Autoscore" software
• "Autoscore" microphone

Vocabulary:

• notation
• music score

Time:

One to two, thirty minute music classes

Instructional Procedure:

1. Demonstrate how the "Autoscore" program will automatically take what is sung into a microphone and digitally score it using musical notation.

2. Have the pairs of students who created each new song take turns singing their song in the microphone. Click the red record button, wait for the four beat countoff to finish, and have the students sing. When they are finished, click the stop button.

3. Play the music back by clicking the rewind button. Click stop after the song has finished playing.

4. Print a score for each child.

Return to Lynn Gilmore's Home Page.

Submitted: July 1, 1998