Multimedia Arts Presentation
Grade Level:
Target Concepts:
National Standards:

 

Secondary
Relationship between music and visual art
Listening to, analyzing, and describing music;
understanding relationships between music an the other arts; understanding music in relation to history and culture
Procedure:
  1. This project can either be done by a teacher to present to students or, given the necessary facilities, by students.
  2. Using the multimedia software program PowerPoint, a presentation can be created to introduce students to the interrelatedness of the arts.
  3. This can direct student attention to how sound is used in music and visual materials are used in art to express similar emotions or ideas to audiences.
  4. Below is an example of such a presentation.* Imbedded in some of the slides are musical examples of works by Debussy and Ravel:




* Thanks to Florida State University students Sarah Koonce and Holly Almon, 1997.