Identify and develop your sensitivity to rhythm and sound through movement and music.
Download your own paper copy of a piano keyboard! If you don’t have access to a piano or keyboard, you can still learn the basics of piano by using this handout and watching our “Learn How to Play the Piano” videos on the ASI Youtube channel. Click here to download the …
Listen and sing along to You’re Welcome here! Hum the tune from the song. Listen again and look at the lyrics to sing. Color the characters. Fill in the main words of the song on the blank lines. Get up and dance to the song! Find a friend or family …
Your Destination: Predating Rock n Roll, Traditional Pop refers to post-big band music. Traditional pop drew from an assortment of songs written by professional songwriters and were often performed by a vocalist that was supported by either an orchestra or a small band. In traditional pop, the song is the key. …
Your Destination: An art movement coming from the avant-garde European art scene in the early ’20s, Dadaism was developed as a reaction to WWI, and during this time the gap between the wealthy and the poor in the word was becoming more and more obvious. The Dadaism movement was made up of artists …
Your Destination: From its origins, folk music has been the music of the working class. It is community-focused and has rarely enjoyed commercial success. By definition, it’s something that can be enjoyed by everyone, something that everyone can understand. Folk subjects include war, work, and civil rights to nonsense, parody, and …
Your Destination: Growing from Surrealism, Abstract expressionism combines the emotional intensity of expressionism with the abstract European forms of art like Cubism, Futurism and Bauhaus. The term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940’s and 1950’s. It is often recognized by emotional brush-strokes or mark-making, …
Your Destination: Best known for its comparison of uncommon things, Surrealism consisted of uncomfortable, illogical scenes and creatures made from everyday objects, painted in photo-like detail, with the main idea being the merging of the awake and the dream world, creating something that exists in between both. Using the handout, you can create your own trippy …
Your Destination: Beginning in Italy, Futurism emphasized speed, technology, youth, and objects like the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Futurism is best known for creating feelings of being young and active while including the new technologies of their time. Using the handout, you will create a piece of art that shows …
