Music/Band
Welcome to the 2022-23 school year!
Hello and welcome to open house for music and band! Thank you for joining me.
K-5
Music Skill Domains
- Singing and vocal development
- Listening
- Moving/Movement
- Memory
- Inner-hearing
- Part work
- Writing
- Reading
- Improvisation
- Composition
- Playing Instruments
- Conducting
The Kodaly Method
Is a philosophy of education and a concept of teaching.
Is a comprehensive program to train basic musical skills and teach the reading and writing of music.
Is an integration of many ideas, techniques, and approaches to music education.
Is an experience-based approach to teaching.
The Orff approach uses rudimentary forms of everyday activity in a child-centered way of learning, treating music like a language. It is in this gentle and friendly approach to elemental music making that allows children to explore new and abstract musical skills and learn by experiencing and participating in different musical lessons and activities. These experiences – which should be both successful and fun – lead to a positive learning process where the students learn concepts by doing, which is at the heart of the philosophy of Carl Orff: “Experience first, then intellectualize.”
Curriculum Outline
5th Grade
6th-8th Band
A specific sequence to most logically present rhythm concepts.
Eastman counting system with breath impulse subdivision of 8th notes
The concert ensemble experience will focus on playing with a characteristic tone on each instrument, improving pitch consciousness, developing individual and ensemble technique, playing with appropriate music phrasing, playing with rhythmic accuracy, developing personal and ensemble reading skills, learning to play in balance, and learning to match tone qualities and pitch.
6th-8th grade band is performance based. The concepts below are taught through repertoire and method books.
Use steady, developing, or characteristic tone when performing music.
Recognize, use, and integrate the fundamental techniques such as posture, playing position, breath control, and fingerings necessary to play an instrument.
Use expressive elements (such as accents, attacks, releases, and interpretation), while playing a varied repertoire of music.
Interpret standard musical notation for whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted note and rest durations in various time signatures.
Interpret standard notation symbols for pitch in appropriate clefs .
Execute specific gestures of a conductor in response to the various elements of music (such as meter, dynamics, phrasing, etc.).
Understand the relationships between music and concepts from other areas.
North Carolina Essential Standards for K-8 Music
contact: amandacrane@theexpeditionschool.com
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