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7th & 8th Grade Music

Class Portfolio!

Semester 1: 2025 - 2026

C Block

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Handbells Rehearsal Video

Class Rehearsal (1/15/26)

“A Simple Song of Joy”
“Grand March”

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Film Music Projects

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Film Music Projects

Using Soundtrap, students outlined and composed original music to accompany silent film clips with their own scores! Please enjoy the students’ compositions.

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Student Portfolio Pages

Selected Projects by Students

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Student Portfolio Pages

This Semester, 7th & 8th Grade students created several original music projects. On the following student-designed slides, you will find their selected work to be shared. Enjoy!

Below are summaries of our types of creative projects;

Hip-Hop Track Recreation	Composer Research Project	Original Story with Music	Pop Song Instrumental Project
As we explored music composition & production, students used our Digital Audio Workstation (Soundtrap), to recreate, program, and mix an excerpt of “It’s Tricky” by Run DMC, one instrument at a time.	Each student picked a composer & one piece of music. Using books in our classroom, students researched, designed a slideshow, and taught a lesson to our class about the composer and their work.	In our music composition work, our class explored a piece of music can be dynamic, and help to tell a story. Each student wrote an original story, recorded narration, and composed music to underscore it.	As a culminating creative project, students developed Song Forms and Chord Progressions, wrote lyrics, and finally created an original instrumental backing track in Soundtrap as a complete composition.