HADDONFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS Curriculum Map for High School Music Theory

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1 Curriculum Map for High School Music Theory Month One 1.4 All students will develop, apply and reflect upon knowledge of the process of critique. Through the critical process, students formulate judgments regarding artistic and aesthetic merits of artwork. Can I read music in treble and bass clefs? Can I identify note intervals in both clefs? Students will learn how to read music in both clefs. Students will learn the background of music in the Middle Ages: Composers, styles and historical background. Students will learn the modes of the Renaissance. Students will learn the basic rhythmic notation for Whole, Half, Quarter, 8 th, and 16 th notes. DVD player. Students will be able to tell if an interval is major, minor, or perfect. Identify notes in bass and treble clef. Identify basic music structure icons staff, cleff, bar line measure. Count rhythm patterns in 4/4 time consisting of quarter, 8 th and 16 th notes. Basic music dictation. Looking at piano music and identifying notes in both clefs. Use mnemonic devices to tell what interval two notes are. Is the dictation correct? Can students tell me what intervals are when I play them? Revised August

2 Month Two 1.5 All students will understand and analyze the role, development and continuing influence of the arts in relation to world cultures, history, and society. The relationship of the arts and culture is mutually dependent; culture affects the arts and the arts reflect and preserve culture. Do I have a general knowledge of the history and development of music and its many branches? Students will study musical timelines, learn about famous composers and musical development of the Baroque and Classical periods. The structure of a major scale. DVD Player Students will be able to identify the era of the music they are listening to. Students will be able to explain where music notation and rhythmic notation came from. Students will be able to tell who a composer is and what they have written. Identify, play and sing a major scale using an instrument and/or sol fe syllables. Students will play the Name Game. In this game, they all have a composer on their forehead that they cannot see, and the others must describe what they did while the student guesses who they are. We will watch La Boheme and Rent. They have the same story, but were written a hundred years apart. Compare and contrast. Written Exam Major Scales Revised August

3 Month Three 1.2 All students will utilize those skills, media, methods and technologies appropriate to each art form in the creation, performance and presentation of dance, music, theater and visual art. Active participation in the arts leads to a comprehensive understanding of the imaginative and creative process. Can I build a major, minor, or diminished triad? Can I build a major scale? All three types of minor scales? Students will use their knowledge of intervals to build scales and triads. Students will study musical timelines, learn about famous composers and musical development of the Romantic and Contemporary periods. Students will learn key signatures and time signatures. DVD players Students will build major, minor, and diminished triads. Students will build natural, harmonic, and melodic minor scales. SWBAT: Identify major key signatures in music. SWBAT: Identify time signatures in music. Students will write out their scales and learn how to play them on the keyboard, and identify them by listening. Written Exam Minor Scales. Dictation Test. Revised August

4 Month Four 1.2 All students will utilize those skills, media, methods and technologies appropriate to each art form in the creation, performance and presentation of dance, music, theater and visual art. Active participation in the arts leads to a comprehensive understanding of the imaginative and creative process. Can I build any variation of the seventh chord? Can I identify them in real compositions? Do I know phrases in Italian that identify tempo and style like Allegro? Dolce? Pesante? Students will learn Italian vocabulary that relates to musical terms. Students will learn about atonal music, tone rows and tone clusters. Students will learn of the birth and development of Jazz. Students will learn complex rhythm patterns. CD Player Students will be able to identify a tome row in music. Students will decide which Italian terms relate to the pieces that are playing. Students will be able to identify elements of a variety of Jazz styles. Students will be able to identify and play complex rhythm, patterns on percussion instruments. Students will be using an excerpt from Bach s The Well-Tempered Clavier to identify chords. Students will listen to music and be able to use Italian phrases that explain tempo and style. Students will design and perform rhythm complexes on percussion instruments. Written Exam. Grand Staff Dictation Test. Revised August

5 Month Five 1.3 All students will demonstrate an understanding of the elements and principles of dance, music, theater and visual art. An understanding of the elements and principles of art is essential to the creative process and artistic production. Can I arrange music? Students will take all knowledge from previous classes to arrange a piece. Students will study the birth and development of Pop/rock music. Students will learn about Form in music. CD player. Students will arrange a piano piece for a woodwind quintet. This will then be performed by members in the class and students who can make it down that period to fill in. SWBAT: identify a variety of pop styles from the 1950s to the present. SWBAT: Identify AB, ABA and Rhondo form in music. Students will have to use Finale to arrange the music. Since there are only 4 voices in the piano part, they will have to decide who plays what and when. Students will write a report on a pop artist of their choice and analyze their music using the knowledge acquired over the semester. Student projects. Written report on a pop artist of their choice. Form Test Revised August

ELMWOOD PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS GENERAL MUSIC GRADE 6 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

ELMWOOD PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS GENERAL MUSIC GRADE 6 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Students will develop aesthetic awareness of the elements of music. Students will examine ways in which composers utilize harmonic structure in the creation or arrangement of notable