Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.

Student Transcriptions

Objective: Students will be able to create their own transcriptions and will experience the process that a person who transcribes must go through while he or she develops a newly transcribed piece.

Activity: Either alone or in groups, students must select an orchestral or choral piece that is relatively well-known. They must then transcribe that piece (or a portion of it) using Finale or Finale Notepad for organ, keeping in mind the various stops that can be used on a pipe organ.

Assessment: Are students paying attention to the purpose of various organ stops in their attempt to create an organ transcription of a choral or orchestral work? Students (if working in groups) should also be discussing in a high-level manner the effects of using one organ stop over another to reflect a particular musical line or part.