4th Grade
Text: Share the Music (Macmillian); Making Music (Silver Burdett); Spotlight on Music (Macmillan) Quavers (online)
September
(continued throughout the year)
PATRIOTIC
MUSIC
FORM
Naming form
Echo
Call and Response
AB
AABA
ABA
Verse and Refrain
Rondo
Round/
Canon
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9, 4.1, 4.2,
October
(continued throughout the year)
RHYTHM
Read using Gordon system du, du-day
Quarter, half, whole, dotted half, 8th, 16th notes
Quarter, half, whole rests
Simple syncopation
Rhythmic Composition
Rhythmic Dictation
Improvise
Standards:
3.1, 3.2, 6.4
November
(continued throughout the year)
Continue
RHYTHM
Rhythmic Dictation
Improvise
Meter of 2
Meter of 3
Compound meter
Simple meter
Standards:
3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 6.4
Begin
INSTRUMENT
FAMILIES
Strings
Keyboard
Brass
Woodwind
Percussion
Identifying instruments by sound
Standards:
4.4, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2,
December
(continued throughout the year)
Continue
INSTRUMENT
FAMILIES
Strings
Keyboard
Brass
Woodwind
Percussion
Identifying instruments by sound
Seasonal Songs
Nutcracker-
Creative Mvt.
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.4, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2,
January
(continued throughout the year)
EXPRESSION
Dynamics –
Performing Dynamics pp ,p mp, mf, f, ff
Cresc/Decresc
Tempo-Tempo markings
Articulation- legato /staccato
Accents
Phrasing
Mood- Variety of moods
MUSIC STYLES
Spirituals
Ragtime
Jazz
Blues
Dixie Land
Big Band
(Black Music History)
Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.7, 3.3, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3,
February
(continued throughout the year)
PITCH/
RECORDERS
Match Pitch
Improvisation
Reading Notated pitches on staff
Standards:
1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.2, 3.1, 4.3, 4.8, 5.3, 5.4,
March
(continued throughout the year)
PITCH/
RECORDERS
Match Pitch
Improvisation
Reading Notated pitches on staff
Composition
Standards:
1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.2,
2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2,
April
(continued throughout the year)
COMPOSING/ COMPOSERS
Standards:
1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.2,
2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2
May
Year in Review
Folk Songs
(testing)
Standards:
Review of all standards covered within the year.