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**David Wiesner**
This wordless text offers a wide range of possibilities for use in the classroom. The images take you on a journey from the Empire State Building to Sector 7, where all the clouds are deployed for duty. Wiesner's pictures present a wide range of moods and ideas that can be molded for use in many lessons across different subjects. This book is ideal for use in different Art Fields as it can easily be made into a play or movie. The use of color and shape in the images are perfect for lessons on texture and mood in music. My lesson focuses on this text because of its reoccuring red hat and scarf in the illustration as a visual idee fixe ro relate to the idee fixe in Hector Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique"

[|Link to Symphonie Fantastique Score] This is the full score to the Symphonie provided by imslp.org. The International Music Score Library Project is a wonderful site that provides printable music that is out of copyright. It has everything from solo repertoire to chamber groups, and full symphonies. I used the score from this website to point out to the students the original idée fixe and its reoccurrences and metamorphosis.

[|Link to Treatsie on Orchestration] Hector Berlioz Berlioz' own technical study on instrumentation is a valuable resource for teachers and students. It contains information on instruments range, tone quality and how to effectively write for the instrument. The treatise uses orchestral excerpts to demonstrate the techniques discussed. Students can learn the characteristics and limitations of each instrument to better write for them. In my lesson studetns will be composing and this allows them to write for instruments they may not knoiw much about.



[|Link to Encyclopedia Britanica page on Hector Berlioz] This web page contains useful information on Berlioz' life history. As a musician and future music educator I believe performers and students should know the full context of the piece they are playing or listening too. This well written and easy to follow article will allow teachers and students to learn of Berlioz life bringing new light to his compostions. This aides my lessonmy incorporating a history component.

[|Link to South Carlina tips on composing music] This webpage offers helpful tips to help get students started working on their compositions. It offers possible techniques on how to expand ideas as well as reminding students that a piece needs consistency and contrast. This is a valuable resource to let know students know bout for when they are working outside of class on their composition project.