Music
Curriculum
Music Curriculum Overview
Kindergarten through Second grade
The music program grades Kindergarten – second grade is designed to expose children to the enjoyment of making and performing music while developing basic musical concepts and skills. Musical concepts of a steady beat, fast/slow, short/long sounds, high/low tones and melodies, loud/soft dynamic levels, singing in tune alone and with others, singing and chanting while being accompanied, moving to music, and call and respond exercises. Students sing a variety of songs individually and in groups, play pitched and non-pitched instruments, move to music, relate rhythm patterns to notation, study traditional notation in double meter learning the quarter note/rest and eighth notes, use classroom instruments and body percussion, create melodies, study changes in musical form in addition to being made aware of changes in dynamics. Students will also perform for an audience.
Third through eighth grade
Students in third through eighth grade will learn a string instrument during music class. Students will continue to develop their music literacy skills through composition. Students will also be exposed to more complex rhythms, meter signatures, and musical form. Students will begin to identify key signatures by sight. Students apply their knowledge of the elements of music as they demonstrate correct technique, musical interpretation, independence, and the understanding of music in relationship to history and culture; describe musical sounds in terms of instrument identification, rhythm, timbre, texture, and form; use proper technique while playing; read and write musical symbols; create original compositions while developing respect and value for the creative process and the endeavors of their classmates; and respond to music through appropriate physical movement.
Kindergarten through Second grade
The music program grades Kindergarten – second grade is designed to expose children to the enjoyment of making and performing music while developing basic musical concepts and skills. Musical concepts of a steady beat, fast/slow, short/long sounds, high/low tones and melodies, loud/soft dynamic levels, singing in tune alone and with others, singing and chanting while being accompanied, moving to music, and call and respond exercises. Students sing a variety of songs individually and in groups, play pitched and non-pitched instruments, move to music, relate rhythm patterns to notation, study traditional notation in double meter learning the quarter note/rest and eighth notes, use classroom instruments and body percussion, create melodies, study changes in musical form in addition to being made aware of changes in dynamics. Students will also perform for an audience.
Third through eighth grade
Students in third through eighth grade will learn a string instrument during music class. Students will continue to develop their music literacy skills through composition. Students will also be exposed to more complex rhythms, meter signatures, and musical form. Students will begin to identify key signatures by sight. Students apply their knowledge of the elements of music as they demonstrate correct technique, musical interpretation, independence, and the understanding of music in relationship to history and culture; describe musical sounds in terms of instrument identification, rhythm, timbre, texture, and form; use proper technique while playing; read and write musical symbols; create original compositions while developing respect and value for the creative process and the endeavors of their classmates; and respond to music through appropriate physical movement.