Chorus Responding Unit—Advanced Level

NAfME Teaching with Primary Sources Curriculum Units for the 2014 Music Standards 

In this unit, students will use recordings and other resources held by the Library of Congress to  

• analyze slavery as a motivation for spirituals.  
• analyze how spirituals influenced the music’s tonality and harmonic structure.  

• analyze how slaves expressed forbidden feelings and desires.  
• make connections to original melodies and techniques.  
• inquire about the tone, audience, speaker, occasion, purpose, and subject to inform their performance practice.  
• create a log of what is aesthetically pleasing.  
• identify ways that they might use protest songs in our current culture.  

• use the SOAPSTone Model of inquiry.