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Kindergarten Music curriculum
Discriminate between fast and slow tempi.
Perform a steady beat in a variety of ways.
Discriminate between beat and rhythm.
Discriminate between high and low registers.
Recognize and perform upward and downward melodic direction.
Recognize when sections are the same and when they are different.
Perform with and experience a variety of classroom instruments.
Discriminate between loud and soft and respond to expressive qualities in music.
Perform vocally by speaking, signing, calling, whispering.
Respond expressively with movement to music.
Understand the function of a composer.
Experience music from many different genres performed with a variety of instrumentation.
1st Grade Music Curriculum
Experience short term rhythm patterns through speech, body percussion and unpitched instruments.
Identify, label, and count the following: quarter rest, quarter note, and eighth note pairs.
Experience Meter (2/4, 4/4, 6/8)
Recognize and perform so-mi and so-mi-la patterns.
Recognize and perform melodic contour with the voice.
Respond to phrases through movement.
Identify the form of an AB or ABA composition.
Identify introductions and repeat signs
Distinguish between men’s, women’s, and children’s voices.
Introduce the musical staff.
Perform speech ostinato as accompaniment
Demonstrate simple chordal bordun
Classify percussion instruments.
Understand expressive qualities in music.
Discriminate between getting louder and getting softer.
Discriminate between getting faster and getting slower.
Match pitch with a clear tone in an age appropriate range.
Discuss the function of a composer, conductor, performer and audience.
Experience a variety of Folk, classical, Musical, and popular genres of music.
2nd Grade Music Curriculum
Respond by moving to beats in sets of 2 and sets of 3.
Perform and count rhythm patterns containing half notes, half rests, whole notes, whole rests and tied notes.
Recognize and perform melodic patterns containing sol, mi, la, do and re.
Recognize and perform melodic contours using instruments and voices.
Recognize steps, skips, leaps, and repeated notes.
Recognize the notes of the musical alphabet and introduce the treble staff.
Perform and label ostinatto and perform broken simple borduns.
Experience major and minor tonalities.
Perform and label rounds.
Perform and label verse and refrain songs.
Identify phrases and measures within sections of songs; recognize codas.
Identify bar line, and double bar line symbols
Classify instruments as pitched or unpitched.
Classify percussion instruments.
Discriminate between piano and forte.
Listen to Carnival of the Animals.
3rd Grade Music Curriculum
Perceive and perform duple and triple meters and recognize time signature symbols.
Compose in duple meters.
Perform and count rhythm patterns consisting of whole notes, whole note rests, dotted half notes, dotted half rest, four sixteenth notes.
Use tempo vocabulary: large, lento, moderato and allegro.
Recognize and perform melodic patterns also containing low so, low la and high do.
Recognize and perform melodic contour using barred instruments and voices.
Name the notes on the lines and spaces of the treble staff and play B, A and G on recorder.
Perform and label melodic ostinato and perform simple crossover bordun
Discriminate between unison and harmony,
Perform and label descants
Classify string instruments.
Discriminate between solo and group or solo and chorus.
Discriminate between crescendo and decrescendo.
Listen to Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and the Surprise Symphony.
Identify music of Mozart and Haydn; Recognize music of the Classical period.
4th Grade Music Curriculum
Perform and improvise combinations of eighth notes and sixteenth notes.
Identify, label, and perform pick-up notes
Identify syncopation
Experience and label accelerando and ritardando
Recognize and perform melodic patterns adding fa and ti.
Play the notes D, E, G, A, B on a soprano recorder.
Read from the treble staff and play simple pentatonic melodies on the recorder and barred instruments.
Identify, label, and perform the Rondo form, D.C. al FIne, and codas.
Perform partner songs and melodies with ostinati and rounds.
Define a chord as three or more notes sounded simultaneously and recognize when chordal harmonies change.
Classify woodwind and brass instruments.
Discriminate between pp, ff, mp and mf as well as p and f.
Experience music, including “Ode to Joy” and “Nutcracker Suite.”
Identify the music of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky; Recognize music of the Romantic period.
5th Grade Music Curriculum
Perform and count a variety of rhythm patterns including syncopation.
Recognize and perform melodic patterns using a major scale.
Experience mixolydian and dorian melodies
Identify, label and read BAGEDC'D' on a soprano recorder.
Identify, label, and read notes on lines and spaces of treble clef and the space and ledger line below the staff
Perform and label songs with two-part harmony; Experience three part harmony,
Hear, perform, and identify tonic and dominant chords; Experience 12 bar blues.
Use appropriate dynamic vocabulary.
Identify the Theme and Variations’ form.
Distinguish between band and orchestra.
Listen to Toccata and Fugue in D Minor and Messiah.
Identify music by Bach and Handel.
Recognize music of the Baroque period.
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