Slide 1: This PowerPoint Presentation only covers the Rap, Jazz, and Gospel Music Styles. Slide 2: Music Styles What Makes Each One Unique? Grade 4 Lesson Summary: In this lesson, students will listen to various genres of music and identify which elements of music or qualities of each genre make it unique. Slide 4: Rap started in New York City in the 1970’s. Slide 5: The main characteristics of Rap music is that you have a Rapper/MC talking and rhyming over a beat on a microphone. The music is usually provided by the DJ who plays the music on vinyl records. The DJ also scratches the records while performing. Rap music is said to be music from the streets. Slide 6: A Rap Band includes the DJ who plays records on two turntables and the Rappers/MC’s who raps on the microphone. Slide 8: Jazz got its start in New Orleans in 1895. Slide 9: The main characteristics of jazz is that it is like a “Musical Conversation” between multiple instruments. Each of the musicians would take turns improvising (making something up as you go/unrehearsed/freestyling). Jazz is mostly instrumental. Slide 10: A Jazz Band includes a drummer, trombone player, trumpet player, clarinet/sax player, banjo player, bass player, and a piano player. Slide 12: Gospel Music started in the Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois in the 1930’s by Thomas A. Dorsey. Slide 13: The characteristics of Gospel Music: Being sacred, meaning the subject matter is about being connected with God or it is dedicated to a religious purpose. You hear singing from a choir. Gospel music is intended to be sung in a church. Slide 14: A Gospel Band includes a drummer, guitar player, bass player, an organist, and a piano player.

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2. Music Styles
What Makes Each One Unique?
Lesson Summary:
In this lesson, students will listen to
various genres of music and identify
which elements of music or qualities of
each genre make it unique.
Grade 4

4. Where Rap StartedWhere Rap Started

5. The Sound
of Rap
•Rhythmic Talking
•Scratching Records
•Sound of the Streets

8. Where Jazz StartedWhere Jazz Started

12. Where Gospel StartedWhere Gospel Started

15. References
• Igus, T., & Wood, M. (2014). I see the rhythm. New York:
Childrens Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books.
• Music Style- What Makes Each One Unique? 5th Grade Lesson
Plan. (n.d.). Retrieved July 24, 2017, from
https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/music-style-what-
makes-each-one-unique-5th
• Songs used in this presentation: “Run’s House” by Run DMC (Rap
Example), “Jumpin' at the Woodsideand” by Count Basie, and “I
Love To Praise Him” by the Mississippi Mass Choir (Gospel
Example)