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W is for Woods: Traditional Adirondack Music & Music Making
by TAUNY-Traditional Arts in Upstate New York
http://woods.tauny.org/index.php

Educational resource for the study and history of traditional Adirondack music in New York State. Includes lesson plans for middle and high school music, history, and language arts curricula. The resource focuses on dance music, ballads, fiddle tunes, folk singers, collectors of folk music, and indigenous and ethnic traditional music found in the Adirondack region. The site has accompanying audio and video recordings, musical transcriptions, and background resources for the study of Adirondack traditional music. The educational content correlates to New York State Learning Standards.

Grade Level: 6-8; 9-12 Curriculum: Music; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Primary sources; Lesson plans; Audio recordings; Activities Language: English
Subjects: Irish Americans; Mohawk Indians; Musicians; Fiddle tunes; Ballads; New York (State)--Social life and customs; Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.)--Social life and customs; Dance music; Folk music; Folk music--Collectors and collecting; Folk songs; French-Canadians
Geographic locations: New York (State); Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.)

Sponsoring Organization:
TAUNY- Traditional Arts in Upstate New York
53 Main Street
Canton NY 13617
(315) 386-4289
http://tauny.org/


 

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