In the Classroom


All students begin class with:

  • Daily music listening example (Classical, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soul, etc...)

  • Patriotic Song (America, Grand Old Flag, National Anthem, Yankee Doodle, America The Beautiful...)

  • Solfege appropriate to grade level


Kindergarten

  • Movement in Music

  • Steady Beat

  • Singing & Rhythm Games

  • Ear training & pitch matching

Grade 1

  • Solfege (Do, Re, Mi) in F Major

  • Ear training & pitch matching

  • Singing & Rhythm Games

  • Steady Beat

  • Rhythmic Dictation

Grade 2

  • Solfege (Do, Re, Mi, Sol, La) in F & C Major

  • Ear training & pitch matching

  • Singing & Rhythm Games

  • Beats-weak & strong

  • 4/4 & 3/4 meters

  • Rhythmic Dictation

Grade 3

  • Solfege (Do, Re, Mi, So, La) in C Major

  • Singing & Rhythm Games

  • Ear training & pitch matching

  • Treble Staff introduction

  • Recorder playing (Spring Semester)

  • Rhythmic Dictation

Grade 4

  • Solfege (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do) in C major

  • Singing & Rhythm Games

  • Treble Staff reinforcement

  • Bass Staff introduction

  • Rhythmic Dictation

  • Introduction to Handbell ringing

Grade 5

  • Rhythm Sight Reading (4/4 meter)

  • Baroque & Classical Music History (Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven)

  • Video: "Bach's Fight for Freedom" , excerpts from "Amadeus"

  • Time Signatures, Measures & Note/Rest Value review

  • Rhythmic Dictation

  • Percussion/Handbell Ensemble

Grade 6

  • Rhythm Sight Reading (4/4 & 3/4 meters)

  • Romantic & Modern Music History (Brahms, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Copland, Cage)

  • Video: "Liszt's Rhapsody"

  • Creating the Grand Staff -Treble & Bass together

  • Rhythmic Dictation

  • Percussion/Handbell Ensemble


Grade 7

  • Jazz & Broadway Music History (Ellington, Marsalis, Bernstein, Lloyd Webber)

  • Video: "West Side Story" & excerpts from "Phantom of the Opera"

  • Key Signatures

  • Rhythmic Dictation & Sight Reading

  • Percussion/Handbell Ensemble