Astronomy

Students learned about how slaves used the stars and embedded directions to the Underground Railroad using music. (2022)

Students learned how to find Draco, Pegasus, and Orion in the night sky. They learned the stories that go with those constellations and how the music we perform ("Starscapes" by Brian Balmages) must portray the stories to our audience. (2022)

Students studied Johannes Kepler's theory that each planet sings a song based off of its rotations. Students improvised melodies and evaluated the dissonance and consonance present in Kepler's work. (2023)

Students  learned about how past people and cultures saw patterns in the stars. They then created their own constellations out of a cluster of stars. (2023)

Students studied sonification done by NASA of galaxies. They then worked to create their own versions of their chosen galaxy. (2024)

Students chose a constellation found in the Northern Hemisphere. They researched the story of the character depicted in the night sky, along with the stars that compose the constellation. The students then created a musical composition to portray the constellation's physical and mythological attributes. (2024)

Students learned about John Legend's 'duet' with the sounds of four different stars. Students got to learn about the sounds stars make, and then created their own duet with sounds from planetary bodies of their choosing (including sounds from Mars). (2024)