CURRICULUM
Big Ideas
Learning Targets
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Perform music by singing and playing instruments
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Create music by improvising and composing
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respond to music by listening, evaluating and understanding how it connects to other areas of life
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Students will sing a variety of classic folk songs that will be based on a pentatonic melody.
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Students will play on a pitched instrument using at least three pitches.
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Students will read and/or write basic notation based on Indiana indicators
Music Vocabulary
Rhythm
Melody
half note
half rest
dotted half note
whole note
whole rest
quarter eighth
eighth rest
question/answer
meter
simple duple meter
compound duple meter
single eighth note
ostinato
tie
mi-re-do
step/skip/repeat
unison
question/answer
tonal center
do pentatonic
Form
Harmony
question/answer
AABA
ABBA
coda
phrase
partner songs
canon/round
ostinato
Theory
measure
improvisation
bar line
double bar line
time signature
do clef
Movement
Instruments
body percussion
woods
metals
alternating mallets
pitched/unpitched
metallophone
glockenspiel
simple bordun
broken bordun
in/out
folk dance
longways set
formation
levels
travelling
stationary
play parties