RHYTHM

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

• Explore, improvise, read, compose, and perform the rhythmic values of sixteenth notes, eighth rests and syncopation

• Review meters: 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4

MELODY

• Review the pentatonic scale and introduce pentatonic modes

• Continue to read and write using traditional music notation

• Read and perform recorder ensemble music in 2 or more parts

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

HARMONY

• Perform double moving chord drones as accompaniments

• Read and perform recorder ensemble music in 2 or more parts

• Sing and play melodies in 4-part canon

MOVEMENT

• Creative Movement Curriculum (Nat'l Standards)

• Elements of Dance

• Folk Dance List

TEXTURE

• Perform instrumental songs and speech with 3-4 parts

• Explore, improvise, compose and identify melodic ostinati

• Perform and identify 3 and 4-part canons

• Explore and perform 3-mallet technique on the barred percussion instruments

FORM

• Students will identify and demonstrate D.C. al fine

• 12 bar blues

• Rap verse