RHYTHM

• Continue the development of beat competency through singing, speech, movement, body percussion, and instrument playing in a variety of tempi and styles

• Explore, improvise, read, compose, and perform rhythmic values that combine sixteenth notes and eighth notes in the duration of the beat

• Review meters of 2/4, 4/4, 3/4 and introduce 6/8

• Explore, improvise, and compose in unusual and mixed meters

MELODY

• Identify and explore the major and minor modes of the hexatonic scale (F-d, G-e, C-a)

• Explore modal music (Ionian, Aeolian, Dorian, Mixolydian, Phrygian) through vocal and instrumental repertoire

• Continue to read and write using traditional music notation

• Continue to explore, improvise, and perform the notes: F#, E’, D, C on the soprano recorder

• Explore other voices of recorder, including alto, tenor, and sopranino

HARMONY

• Perform recorder ensemble pieces with 3-4 layered parts

• Explore and perform I-IV-V accompaniments

• Explore and perform shifting chord accompaniments (I-VII, I-II)

MOVEMENT

• Creative Movement Curriculum (Nat'l Standards)

• Elements of Dance

• Folk Dance List

TEXTURE

• Perform multi-part work in choral and instrumental pieces

• Continue to explore paraphony

• Continue to perform 4-part canons

• Explore counter-melody

• Continue to explore and perform three mallet technique

FORM

• Explore unequal phrase lengths

• Explore form in pop music context