Curriculum

Elementary and Middle School

The music teacher will cooperate with classroom teachers to follow Core Knowledge Sequence in linking music classroom experiences to material taught in the classroom.

In keeping with the Core Knowledge curriculum, Woods is using an Orff Schulwek approach to teaching. The elements of the Orff philosophy include music education for the whole person. It is essentially an active music experiential approach. The Orff approach encourages creativity through the student's natural responses to music.

Kindergarten

Become familiar with rhythm, melody, form
Recognize instruments by sight and sound
Become familiar with the 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' by Grieg and Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals
Music and Movement from Kindergarten Songs list

1st Grade

Review rhythm melody, harmony, form
Become familiar with simple music notation
Intro to composers, orchestra and opera.
Listening: Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Songs and movement from 1st Grade Song list

2nd Grade

Review basic elements of music and notation
Review families of instruments
Recognize differences between piano and organ
Explore composition
Listening: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Bach's Minuet in G and Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
Music and movement from 2nd Grade song list

3rd Grade

Review basic elements of music and notation
Review symphony orchestra
Composers and their music: John Phillip Sousa, Aaron Copland, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky
Intro to Jazz
Music and Movement - 3rd Grade Song List

4th Grade

Review basic elements and notation
Introduction to singing in harmony
Recognize vocal ranges of singers
Listening - Britten's 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', Handel's Messiah (The Hallelujah Chorus), Haydn's Surprise Symphony, Mozart's The Magic Flute
Music and movement from 4th Grade Song list, especially Gregorian chant and Sea Songs

5th Grade

Continue with basic music terms and notation
Composers: Beethoven (Symphony No 5), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition),
Mendelssohn (Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream) and music of the Renaissance
American Musical Traditions - Spirituals
Songs and Movement from the 5th Grade List

6th Grade

Review as necessary the orchestra, keyboard instruments and vocal ranges
Italian musical terms
Review musical notation
Music technology
Classical Music from Baroque to Romantic
Composers: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn,
Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann

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