Music Concept Map

 

 

 

Campus:

Kerr Elementary

 

Grade:

Music

 

School Year:

2007 - 2008

 

 

1st Six Weeks

2nd Six Weeks

3rd Six Weeks

4th Six Weeks

5th Six Weeks

6th Six Weeks

KINDER-GARTEN

 

-Vocal exploration

-beat

-fast/slow

-loud/soft

-high/low

-strong/weak beats

(louder/softer beats)

 

-high/low pitches

-motive/phrase

 

-rhythm

-beat vs. rhythm

 

-review

-improvisation

 

 

FIRST

GRADE

 

 

-Vocal exploration

-beat

-fast/slow

-loud/soft

-high/low

-strong beat/weak beat

-accent

-melodic idea w/motives and phrases

-rhythm

-1 or 2 sounds on beat

-intro “ta”

-intro “titi”

-rest

-rhythm vs. beat

-same/different

-repeat sign

-ostinato

-2 meter

 

-higher pitch

-so-mi

-staff

-construct so-mi motives

-so-la

-beat + rhythm

-4 beat dictation

 

 

SECOND

GRADE

 

 

-La (mi-la turn)

-Notation of

Grade 1 material

On manuscript

-Canon

-“do”

-Simple Duple Meter

-“tie”

-half note

-“re”

-rhythmic dictation (4 beats)

-motivic forms

- performance

-melodic ostinato

-improvisation (movement, rhythm)

-improvisation (Melody & Language)

 

THIRD

GRADE

 

 

 

-Re (so-re/re-so turns)

-preliminary part singing

-rhythmic dictation

-pentatone

-melodic dictation (4 beats)

-phrasic forms

- performance

-separated eighth notes

-“tie”

syn-Co-pa”

-canon (melodic)

-low “la”

-Tonal center (do and la)

-sixteenth notes

-low so

-improvisation

- composition

 

FOURTH

GRADE

 

 

-slurs

- eighth and sixteenth note combination

-high “do”

-anacrusis

-intervals

-tonal center (so/re)

-pentatonic scales

-singing chord roots

-4 meter

-whole note

-melodic dictation (8 beats)

-dotted quarter & eighth note combinations

fa”

 

-rhythmic dictation (16 beats)

 

FIFTH

GRADE

 

 

-dotted eighth/sixteenth combinations

-Diatonic Scales

-major/minor tonality

-absolute pitch

-6/8 meter

-Major/minor intervals

-melodic dictation (16 beats)

-dotted eighth/sixteenth note combinations in 6/8

-accidentals

 

-major scale construction

-key signatures

- performance

-improvisation & composition

 

CHOIR

 

 

 

-vocal timbre

­­-proper choral posture

-score reading and preparation

-terminology

-form

-sight reading rhythms

-form

-symbols

-melodic reading

 

-cannon singing

-melodic reading

 

-two part singing

-sight reading unison songs