2016-17 Classroom Music Curriculum Scope and Sequence Kindergarten: Musical Elements Tuneful Singing Beat Motions High vs Low Pitch Slow vs Fast Tempi Loud vs Soft Dynamics Short vs Long durations Smooth vs Jerky articulations Same vs Different Timbre Composers and Selections related to the Social/Cultural Literacy Peer Gynt- Grieg Babes in Toyland- Herbert The King and I- Rodgers Carnival of the Animals- Saint Säens 1 st Grade Steady Beat Beat vs Rhythm Quarter note, coupled eighth notes, and quarter rest Melodic pitches so and mi and la Simple duple meter, barlines and repeat sign Composers and Selections related to the Social/Cultural Literacy Programmatic Music (Music Tells a Story) Peter and the Wolf- Prokofiev Hansel and Gretel Humperdinck The Sorcerer s Apprentice- Dukas The Nutcracker- Tchaikovsky 2 nd Grade Melodic pitches la, do, and re Half note, half rest Duple and quadruple meter Pentatonic scale Instrument groupings of the orchestra, keyboard instruments and their timbre Composers and Selections related to the Social/Cultural Literacy required by The Four Seasons- Vivaldi Toccata and Fugue in G minor- Bach Fur Elise- Beethoven
3 rd Grade Musical Elements Absolute pitch- treble clef Pentatonic scales Four sixteenth notes, one eighth-two sixteenth notes, two sixteenths-one eighth note Melodic pitch low la Single eighth note Recognize timbre of strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion families Composers and Selections related to the Social/Cultural Literacy William Tell- Rossini Horn Concerti- Mozart Stars and Stripes Forever- Sousa Fanfare for the Common Man- Copland 4 th Grade Melodic pitches low la, low so, Whole note Single eighth note, quarter, single eight note patterns (syncopation) La pentatonic and so pentatonic scales Identify timbre of specific orchestral instruments Introduction to Soprano Recorder Composers and Selections Related to the Social/Cultural Literacy The Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra Britten Hallelujah Chorus, from Messiah- Handel Surprise Symphony- Haydn The Magic Flute- Mozart
5 th Grade Melodic pitches high do and fa Half steps and whole steps Do pentachord and hexachord Melodic alteration using flats Dotted quarter note-single eighth note patterns Composers and Selections related to the Social/Cultural Literacy Symphony No. 5- Beethoven Pictures at an Exhibition- Mussorgsky African American Spirituals Sacred vs Secular Genre from the Renaissance 6 th Grade Eighth-quarter-eighth note patterns Dotted quarter-eighth note patterns Whole rest Re pentatonic scale Melodic pitch low ti Upbeat /pickup note(s) Dotted half note Tripe Meter Dotted eighth-single sixteenth note patterns Musical Periods, Composers, and Social/Cultural Literacy required by Baroque Bach Handel Classical Haydn Mozart Beethoven Romantic Schubert Chopin Schumann
7 th Grade Melodic pitches high do, fa, low ti Eighth-quarter-eighth patterns Dotted quarter-eighth patterns Diatonic scales, Major/Minor, Musical Periods, Composers, and Social/Cultural Literacy required by Late Romantic Period Wagner Chopin Liszt Brahms Nationalism The Russian Five Saint Säens Sibelius Dvorak Vaughn Williams
8 th Grade Eighth- dotted quarter note patterns Dotted eighth-sixteenth note patterns Sixteenth-dotted eighth note patterns Melodic modes, harmonic minor scales Tonic, dominant and subdominant patterns in minor keys Blues scale Musical Periods, Composers, and Social/Cultural Literacy required by Core Knowledge National Identity Kodaly/Bartok Copland 20 th Century Transitional and Atonal Experimentation Debussy Stravinsky Grand Opera Traditions Rossini Verdi African Influence and American Music Blues Jazz Ragtime American Musical Theatre and Broadway Irving Berlin Cole Porter George Gershwin Rodgers and Hammerstein Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim