In sixth grade, students will be reading music using various classroom instruments. Students will explore through singing, rhythmic identification through rhythm games, listening, playing and identifying notes on both the treble and bass clefs. We will transfer prior music knowledge to the piano keyboard, and continue learning the basics of written music theory. Listening activities will explore world music, music history, and expand instrumental knowledge and identification. Students will share what they've learned in their quarterly assemblies!
RHYTHM Review previous concepts of rhythm and meter
MELODY Review and application of all previous concepts
FORM Review forms, popular song forms (verse/refrain/bridge), aural identification of musical forms
TEXTURE & HARMONY Three and four part rounds and canons, I-IV-V bassline, performing with accompaniment
INSTRUMENTS Reading music with ukuleles, xylophones, glockenspiels, metallophones, bucket drums and boomwhackers
OTHER Treble clef, bass clef, metric counting, dictation, music history
This is the full performance. Use the slides below to practice either Part 1 or Part 2