Fifth Grade

We learn music through:

Singing Chanting Moving Dancing Playing Instruments Listening Creating

Improvising Reading Writing Audiating Describing Evaluating

Curricular Goals for Fifth Grade

Singing

  • Continue to develop Head Voice

  • Tonic and Dominant Patterns using solfege in major and minor tonalities

Rhythmic Chanting

  • Rhythmic patterns with syllables

  • Put syllables to rhythm patterns ("translate")

Improvising and Creating

  • Improvise with rhythm syllables

  • Rhythm conversations

  • Improvise melodies on xylophones using Tonic and Dominant patterns in Major and Minor tonalities

  • Composing 4-beat patterns

Form

  • Same/Different musical ideas

  • Ostinato

  • AB, ABA, etc Form


Moving

  • Flow

  • Folk and circle dances

  • Partner dances

  • Body Percussion (Performing and creating)

Playing Instruments

  • Playing xylophones and other simple percussion

  • Rhythmic and melodic ostinati

  • Sing and accompany self with Ukuleles

  • Perform tunes on Recorder

Listening/Analyzing/Describing

  • Label Macrobeats/microbeats, Divisions/Elongations

  • Label duple, triple meter, and unusual meters

  • Label Major and minor tonalities (Tonic and Dominant Functions)

  • Identify and label instrument families in the Orchestra (Woodwinds, Brass, Percussion, Strings)

Reading and Writing

  • Practice writing notation symbols (quarter note/rest, paired eighths, beamed sixteenths, and half notes)