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LESSON PLAN for Music Integrated Lessons 

Grade Duration: Title: Composition Project Using Finale

Level: 3 Class
9-12 periods Author: Liam Cleary, Joshua Kepich, and Devin Scicluna

Enduring Students will be able to integrate a useful application to better integrate key, tones
Understanding: and composition into their practice and learning. Student need to know ​knowledge
of scales, basic music theory (chords), ability to read music and play instrument, and
understanding of instrument transpositions.

Overview: ​Beneficial Technology​​: This technology is useful because it a professional music

tool that allows students to create and listen to musical composition in real-time.
Finale can be useful in teaching and applying different music compositional
techniques that are used by composers past and present. This software is used by
collegiate and professional musicians, but is appropriate for the high school level as
well.

Content Standard(s): Technology Standard(s):

State Standards for Music​​: ART.M.II.HS.7 - Technology standards​​ - Innovative designer - ​Students use a
Create or adapt music to integrate with other variety of technologies within a design process to identify and
media. (21st Century Skills: I.1, I.2, I.3, I.4, II.1, solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative
II.2, II.3, II.5, II.7, III.3)
solutions. 4D - ​Students exhibit a tolerance for ​ambiguity​,
NAFME standards (accomplished)​​ -
MU:Cr3.2.C.IIa Share music through the use of perseverance​ and the capacity to work with ​open-ended
notation, solo or group performance, or problems
technology, and demonstrate and describe how
the elements of music and compositional
techniques have been employed to realize
expressive inte

How to Teach the Technology: Problem Solving Activity:

Before groups begin to create music in Finale,
teacher will guide students through the Setup
Wizard to ensure the document is properly
formatted to fit the provided guidelines. Once
setup is complete, the teacher will show students
how to use the software’s toolbars to create
different musical notions such as note entry,
dynamics, articulations, tempi, and text
attributes. Groups will then begin composing
A student is bored from their uninteresting part for tuba. We
can use the Finale software to transpose/transcribe the flute
part for tuba so that the part is much more interesting to play
and thus making the student more engaged in the music.
Students can also solve the problem of writing music or
sounds that they have not heard in another composition.
while the teacher walks around the classroom to
help guide students.

Assessment Rubric

Fulfills Standard Approaching Below Standard

Standard

Follows The composition is in The composition is in Composition follows all

Guidelines the wrong key, wrong the wrong key, wrong provided guidelines
time signature, and is time signature, or is while showing
unplayable. unplayable expression and
understanding

Creativity The composition shows The composition only Composition shows the
no creativity and has no shows some creativity group’s effective level
original ideas with only a few original of creativity and
ideas collaboration

Proper Notation There are many There are a few Composition follows
notation problems notation errors conventional notation
standards

Performance Group does not perform Group performs piece, Group performs
composition accurately. but is missing elements composition with
No expression is of expressive playing, precision and
present some accuracy issues expression