Moving with Florence Price: Juba Dance – listening lesson – music composers

This listening lesson helps students in grades 3–5 hear and play a syncopated rhythm from the Juba Dance in Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 in E minor. Students move to the steady beat, find short and long sounds, follow a listening map, learn about Florence Price, and create their own body percussion composition.

What’s included

• A main menu with clickable links to each section
• A video link to the Juba Dance
• 3 steady beat warm-up slides
• 4 slides on hearing short and long sounds
• 2 slides of moving to the rhythm pattern with body percussion
• A listening map, on slides and as a printable, with time stamps for each section
• A slide about Florence Price and a slide with links to more of her music
• A slide and a printable worksheet for a body percussion composition
• Directions for use

Formats

• PDF
• Google Slides: A link is included in your download and lets you add your own copy to Google Drive.
• PowerPoint

Important

• Videos play through YouTube, so an internet connection is required.
• The PowerPoint must be in presentation mode for the clickable links to work.

Ways to use it

• A whole-class rhythm lesson
• To teach Florence Price and other modern composers, pair it with Modern Composers for Grades 3–5.

Standards (NCAS)

• Creating: Anchor Standard 1 (generate and conceptualize artistic ideas)
• Performing: Anchor Standard 4 (select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation)
• Responding: Anchor Standard 7 (perceive and analyze artistic work)

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