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Music History

• Cowboy Songs, Jokes, Lingo Kindergarten-Grade 8
  
  Cowboys sang. They sang of long days and short nights, wild broncs, whiskey, and of pals gone on to the prairie in the sky. Besides being sung for pleasure, songs were tools of the working cowboy. Early cowboy songs were seldom, if ever written down.
• Discovering Hymns Webquest Grade 3-Grade 8
  
  In this webquest, students review favorite hymns and create a booklet listing their selections with background stories.
• Metropolitan Museum Art Collection Online Kindergarten-Lifelong
  
  Online access to over 3,500 of more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times, through the Metropolitan Museum's website. Collections make great resources for social studies or art units: American art, Egyptian...
• Native Ground Music, Historic American Music & Folklore Preschool-Lifelong
  
  Native Ground Music is the comprehensive resource for authentic southern Appalachian music and traditional music of rural America, the Civil War, and the Old West. Includes gospel, bluegrass, and old-time folk music collections and a full catalog of outlaw...
• Sing for Freedom Grade 2-Lifelong
  
  The story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs. Hymns, spirituals, gospel songs, prayers and speeches have been a unifying force in the struggle for civil rights throughout the United States.
• Slave Narratives and Spirituals Grade 11-Grade 12
  
  "Slave Narratives and Spirituals" is an interdisciplinary unit for the 11th and 12th grade that incorporates elements from American Literature, American History, and Music History. It can serve as a stand-alone unit or as part of a chronological...
• Stories of the Great Hymns: Short Sessions on the Creation of the Great Hymns Grade 3-Grade 8
  
  This book is sure to rekindle an interest in the rich heritage of hymns and gospel songs. It can be used as supplementary material for private and group instruction, church choir clubs, Sabbath schools, Christian schools and home schools. Each unit contains...
• The Story of Christian Music Grade 9-Lifelong
  
  From Gregorian Chant to Black Gospel, an authoritative, illustrated guide to all the major traditions of music for worship.