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1.Welcome friends!This week we are learning  a new song: America the BeautifulWatch the video, and sing along!: 

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1.Welcome friends!This week we are learning  a new song: America the BeautifulWatch the video, and sing along!: 

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Watch the video, learn the story behind the song’s creation and sing along!: 

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Watch the video, learn the story behind the song’s creation and sing along!: 

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America the Beautiful

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2.This is the KARAOKE version to have even more fun( you can record yourself!)

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2.This is the KARAOKE version to have even more fun( you can record yourself!)

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America The Beautiful, Patriotic Music, Karaoke Video with on screen lyrics

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 New Music Trivia Video of the week is HERE.  This week’s question is: Can you learn to play piano on YouTube?

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 New Music Trivia Video of the week is HERE.  This week’s question is: Can you learn to play piano on YouTube?

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Can You Learn to Play Piano on YouTube? YouTube Piano Lessons

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Continued: The Origins of Jazz Music plus Interactive lesson about Singing!

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Continued: The Origins of Jazz Music plus Interactive lesson about Singing!

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Check out this RAP OPERA Part 2 about JAZZ!

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Jazz Music History Song, Part 2: Jazz Musicians with Compare and Contrast Worksheets

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Learn about Scott Joplin- the King of Ragtime! read/download/print activity pages:

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Learn about Scott Joplin- the King of Ragtime! read/download/print activity pages:

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Composers

Scott Joplin

January 01, 1867 - April 01, 1917
Modern Period
Today, birthdays are very carefully recorded, but no one knows for sure exactly when Scott Joplin was born. According to the United States census taken in July of 1870, Scott Joplin was two years old. And no one is sure where Joplin was born, either -- it was probably in northeast Texas.

Scott Joplin's father was born into slavery in North Carolina; his mother was a freeborn woman from Kentucky. Both his parents were musical. When his parents separated, Scott's mother supported the family by cleaning houses, and he was allowed to use the piano in one of those houses. He taught himself to play.

As a teenager, Joplin started traveling. In Missouri, he played piano in saloons; for the 1893 World's Fair, he headed to Chicago, and played cornet in a band. After spending some time in college, Joplin moved on to St. Louis, the hotbed of ragtime music. Eventually, he wound up in New York City.

Scott Joplin wrote some songs and stage works, but he's best known as one of the greatest composers of piano rags. In 1976 -- almost 60 years after Scott Joplin died -- his opera Treemonisha was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.

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Composers January 01, 1867 - April 01, 1917 Modern Period Today, birthdays are very carefully recorded, but no one knows for sure exactly when Scott Joplin was born. According to the United States census taken in July of 1870, Scott Joplin was two years old.