Bonus Assignments

Faculty: Please feel free to use these assignments in your classes to enhance the textbook and the classroom experience. Each assignment builds off of skills learned in the text and they all have some flexibility to be used more than once depending on where your students are in their Music Fundamentals journey.

Assignments focused on Rhythm:

• Mini-compositions - 5 - 10 minute in class assignments

• Story in Rhythm - a homework assignment

• My First Rhythmic composition - a longer assignment

Composition Assignments:

• My First Composition - melody and chords

• My Next Composition - building the skillset

Song Presentation - Applying Music Theory skills to song analysis from a performer’s perspective:

• Song Presentation - a paper and in class presentation