Syllabus
Units of Study
Kindergarten
-Beat
-Whisper, Talk, Shout and Sing
-Rhythm
-Holiday Music
-High and Low
-Up and down
-Meter of 2, 3 and 4
-Instrument families
-Loud and soft
-Fast or slow
-Long and short
1st Grade
-Beat
-Meter of 2,3 and 4
-Rhythm
-Ostinato
-Holiday Music
-4 Voices
-My voice is an instrument
-Lines and spaces
-Pitches and intervals
-Melodic patterns and intervals
-Notes and rests
-Pitches and rhythms
-Tempo
-Dynamics
-Instrument families
-Form
2nd Grade
-Steady Beat
-Meter
-Rhythm
-Ostinato
-My voice
-Solfege
-Baroque period
-Notes and rests
-Dynamics
-Instrument Families
-Composition
-Form
3rd Grade
-Meter
-Ostinato
-Timbre
-Musical Alphabet
-Lines and Spaces
-Melodic Movement
-Classical Period
-Sixteenth notes
-Whole notes and whole rests
-Dynamics
-Holiday Music
-Recorder
-Form
-Holiday Music
4th and 5th Grades
-Triplets
-Sixteenth notes
-Holiday Music
-Meter
-Timbre
-Duration
-Recorder
-Time Periods
*4th: Romantic
*5th: Impressionist
-Instrument Families
-Ukulele
-Steel Drums