The following curriculum maps serve as a basic outline of material and concepts to be covered at each grade level. Under the listening section, I have indicated just one or two of the works that will be covered. It is by no means a complete list. The same is true for the dance section. Kindergarten Melody: Vocal flexibility; tonal patterns; pitch matching Rhythm: Steady beat Tone Color: Body percussion; percussion instruments Listening: Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov) (Follow directions dances) Performance: Thanksgiving Program; Winter Choral Concert (Performer and audience behavior and demeanor) Second Quarter: Melody: Melodic direction (step, skip, repeated tone) Rhythm: Short/Long; Sound/Silence (Quarter note/rest) Tone Color: Body percussion; percussion instruments Listening: Big Bird Discovers the Orchestra (Instrumental families) (Movement in response to musical style - tip toe, march, skip, glide) Performance: Spring Show (Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten) Grade 1 Melody: Melodic direction; Vocal flexibility
Rhythm: Rhythm vs. Steady beat; Short/Long; Syncopation (Hop Light, Ladies) Listening: Syncopated Clock (Leroy Anderson) (Old Brass Wagon) Melody: Melodic direction (ascending, descending) Rhythm: Sound/Silence; Quarter, Half and Eighth notes and rests Listening: Firebird Suite (Stravinsky); Tubby the Tuba (Kleisinger; Instrumental families) (Bow Belinda) Performance: Spring Program (Songs of the Cowboys) Grade 2 Melody: Melodic direction; Vocal flexibility Rhythm: Steady beat vs. Rhythm Listening: Old Dan Tucker (arr. C. Brubeck) (Over the Sea, Conga, Mexican Hat Dance)
Melody: Melodic direction (ascending, descending) Rhythm: Sound/Silence; Quarter, Half and Eighth notes and rests Listening: Selections from Down on the Farm (Cincinnati Pops); Toot, Whistle, Boom (Instrumental families) (Square Dance) Performance: Spring Program (Animals and Their Habitats) Grade 3 Melody: Vocal flexibility; Small group singing Rhythm: Meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4) ; two part harmony Listening: Sabre Dance (Khachaturian) (Macarena, Alley Cat, Cotton Eyed Joe); Fifty Nifty United States Genre: Ballad; Folk Song Melody: Vocal expressiveness Rhythm: Quarter, Half, Whole, Dotted half and Eighth notes and rests ; two part harmony
Listening: Peer Gynt Suite (Grieg); Once Upon a Sound (instrumental families) (Tarantella; My Maria cross midline) Genre: Ballet Performance: Spring Program (American Folk Heroes) Grade 4 Melody: Vocal flexibility; Small group singing Rhythm: Meter (6/8) Harmony: Partner Songs Listening: Night on Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky) (Achy Breaky; Tarantella); Rap of the States Form/Genre: Ballad; Native American Melody: Vocal expressiveness Rhythm: Reading rhythmic notation Harmony: Two part harmony Listening: Grand Canyon Suite (Grofe); Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev; Instruments of the Orchestra) Form: Review introduction, repetition, contrast, verse/refrain, echo Form/Genre: Rhapsody; American Folk Performance: Spring Program (American Folk Heroes) Grade 5 Melody: Vocal technique Rhythm: Rhythmic notation; ostinato Harmony: Partner Songs; two part harmony
Listening: Variations on America (Ives); Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky) Tucson Symphony Orchestra Music in Our Schools Program (Electric Slide; Shot Gun); Rap of the Presidents Form/Genre: Romantic; Theme and Variations; endings, DC and DS Melody: Vocal expressiveness Rhythm: Reading rhythmic notation Harmony: Two part harmony Listening: The Planets (Gustav Holst); Instrumental Families Tucson Symphony Orchestra Music in Our Schools Program Form/Genre: Blues, Boogie-Woogie, Pop, Patriotic Performance: Spring Program (Salute to the Armed Forces) Grade 6 Melody: Vocal technique Rhythm: Rhythmic notation; ostinato Harmony: Partner Songs; two part harmony Listening: Variations on Pop Goes the Weasel (Calliet); Sorcerer s Apprentice (Dukas) (Line Dance); Rap of the Presidents Form/Genre: Theme and Variations; Tone Poem Vocabulary: Pitch, Genre, Form, Dynamics (pp,p,mp,mf,f,ff,<,>), Tempo (allegro, largo, moderato, andante, presto)
Melody: Vocal expressiveness and technique Rhythm: Beat/rhythm/meter Harmony: Two part harmony Listening: Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Seans); Identification of instruments by sound (Boot-Scoot; California Stomp) Form/Genre: Opera/Musical/Operetta Performance: Promotion (Swinging on a Star; Rap of the Presidents; Tomorrow)