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About the Course
The Active Listening Project: Carnival of the Animals is a series of five videos that introduce viewers to five movements from Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals:
- Episode 1: “Introduction and Royal March of the Lion”
- Episode 2: “Elephants”
- Episode 3: “The Aquarium”
- Episode 4: “Fossils”
- Episode 5: “The Swan”
Each episode is designed to engage learners in active and structured listening. The lesson and accompanying visual materials help listeners understand musical elements from the piece (the form, rhythmic content, and musical phrases) as they are listening. After modeling active learning in conjunction with the music, each episode ends with a final performance of the piece on its own featuring students from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Accompanying each episode is a lesson plan for teachers that provides the instructional goals of each experience, identifies the Indiana Music Standards (General Music K-12) that are addressed, and includes a list of procedures from the episode, suggestions for assessing skills and information, and possible ways that the activities modeled can be extended in a music learning setting.
Course Objectives
This course is geared toward addressing several Indiana Music Standards (General Music, K-12), including:
- Anchor Standard 2: Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
- Anchor Standard 3: Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.
- Anchor Standard 5: Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components.
- Anchor Standard 6: Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement.
- Anchor Standard 10: Create a varied repertoire of music by representing audiation and aurally perceived music.
Meet the Instructor
Brent Gault is professor of music education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Contact Information
Jacobs Academy | musicsp@iu.edu | 812-855-6025
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