Curriculum Guides for Music
4th Grade Music
Music in the fourth grade provides a great amount of time to build a solid musical foundation with a diverse set of skills. Music literacy, utilizing Solfeggio syllables, is stressed. Singing, both accompanied and a cappella, with correct vocal technique, breath control, and posture is essential. Students will explore many musical concepts and gain appreciation for other cultures through songs, games, dances, and cross-curricular activities.
Content
A. Concepts:
Steady beat, rhythmic patterns, correct vocal techniques and breath control, two-part singing, musical symbols, improvisation, composition, audiation, Solfeggio, self and group evaluation, audience and performance behavior, sight reading, movement, instruments and their uses, and purposes of music in societies
B. Skills:
1. Singing:
5th Grade Music
Music in the fifth grade continues to establish a strong musical foundation. Music literacy is continually stressed, using Solfeggio techniques. Singing in multiple languages, a cappella and accompanied with correct technique, breath control, and posture is emphasized. Appreciation of world cultures is continued through songs, games, dance, and cross-curricular activities.
Content
A. Concepts:
Internalized beat/rhythm, audiation, syncopation, correct vocal techniques, breath control and posture, two and three part singing, musical symbols, instruments and their uses, improvisation, composition, musical forms, aesthetic reactions to music, diagramming, conducting patterns, blues scale, harmonization, self and group evaluation, audience and performance behavior, sight reading, and movement
B. Skills:
1. Singing:
Music in the fourth grade provides a great amount of time to build a solid musical foundation with a diverse set of skills. Music literacy, utilizing Solfeggio syllables, is stressed. Singing, both accompanied and a cappella, with correct vocal technique, breath control, and posture is essential. Students will explore many musical concepts and gain appreciation for other cultures through songs, games, dances, and cross-curricular activities.
Content
A. Concepts:
Steady beat, rhythmic patterns, correct vocal techniques and breath control, two-part singing, musical symbols, improvisation, composition, audiation, Solfeggio, self and group evaluation, audience and performance behavior, sight reading, movement, instruments and their uses, and purposes of music in societies
B. Skills:
1. Singing:
- Sing in tune with proper technique, breath control, and posture
- Build a varied repertoire of songs, including canons and two part songs
- Sing with accompaniment, a cappella, alone, and in ensembles
- Sing expressively with dynamics, various tempos, and in multiple languages
- Audiate: maintain a concept of pitch when not singing
- Introduction to soprano recorder
- Perform rhythmic patterns on instruments
- Accompany class songs with a variety of pitched and non-pitched instruments
- Compose and improvise on various instruments
- Read and perform notes in the Treble clef, with both voice and instruments
- Read notes using Solfeggio syllables
- Read rhythms using syllables in 2/4, 6/8 and 4/4
- Demonstrate literacy concepts, such as dynamics and time signatures through movement
- Recognize and explain musical symbols, including dynamics and tempo markings
- Explore various cultures through musical traditions, song, and research
- Explore music through movement
- Demonstrate proper audience and performance behavior
5th Grade Music
Music in the fifth grade continues to establish a strong musical foundation. Music literacy is continually stressed, using Solfeggio techniques. Singing in multiple languages, a cappella and accompanied with correct technique, breath control, and posture is emphasized. Appreciation of world cultures is continued through songs, games, dance, and cross-curricular activities.
Content
A. Concepts:
Internalized beat/rhythm, audiation, syncopation, correct vocal techniques, breath control and posture, two and three part singing, musical symbols, instruments and their uses, improvisation, composition, musical forms, aesthetic reactions to music, diagramming, conducting patterns, blues scale, harmonization, self and group evaluation, audience and performance behavior, sight reading, and movement
B. Skills:
1. Singing:
- Sing in tune with proper technique, breath control, and posture
- Awareness of the register of a cambiata (changing) voice
- Build a varied repertoire of songs in two and three parts
- Sing with accompaniment, a cappella, alone, and in ensembles
- Sing expressively with dynamics, various tempos, and in multiple languages
- Maintain a tonal center through audiation
- Perform complex rhythmic patterns on percussion instruments within an ensemble
- Accompany class songs with a variety of pitched and non-pitched instruments
- Compose and improvise on instruments
- Read and perform notes with voices and instruments
- Read notes using Solfeggio syllables
- Read rhythms using syllables in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 3/8, 6/8, and 9/8
- Recognize, explain, and demonstrate musical symbols
- Explore various cultures through musical traditions, song, and research
- Explore music through movement
- Demonstrate proper audience and performance behavior