# Guide to Teachable Features in Popular Music

- **Price:** $18.00 (USD)
- **Author:** Emily Langerholc
- **Format:** Unit Plans | Lesson Plans
- **Level / area:** Elementary, Popular Music | Commercial Music, Secondary
- **Topics:** cadences, k-12 teaching, meter, modes, music theory, Popular Music, samples
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## Summary

| ***This is an eBook for immediate download (133 pages)*** *Guide to Teachable Features in Popular Music* is a resource for music teachers at all levels. Written by a practicing music teacher who has taught PK-12 music, this book provides thoughtful reflections and concrete examples of teaching basic music theory concepts through popular music. This work includes a decade’s worth of compiled songs with teachable features, so there’s sure to be something for learning at all levels. |
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## Description

| Have you ever turned on the radio and wondered, “I wonder what time signature this Ariana Grande song is in?” After reading through *Guide to Teachable Features in Popular Music*, you may start to hear the connections between academic music curriculum and popular music everywhere you go. Emily Langerholc, a current public school music teacher and music education scholar, has spent the last decade compiling popular songs that feature the concepts she teaches in the classroom. Did you realize that Pharrell’s “Happy” is in Dorian mode or that Dionne Warwick’s “I Say a Little Prayer” changes meter throughout the song? Have you used The White Stripe's “Seven Nation Army” to teach quarter note triplet rhythms? Ms. Langerholc has used songs such as these in the classroom to increase engagement and facilitate transfer. Now you can do the same! This guide covers the following concepts: - jazz & classical samples - various meters & time signatures - cross-rhythms - melodic intervals - modulations - modes - cadences. Songs discussed in this book cover a pop timeline from the 1950s to 2021 across a diverse range of genres and artists in popular music. The work also contains lesson plans, artists' features, and short essays on popular music pedagogy. If you want to integrate more popular music into your music classroom or learn more yourself, this is your resource. |
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