Yearly Plan

Music

September:

  1. Rhythm/Beat
  2. Steady Beat
  3. Dynamics (Loud/Soft)
  4. Melody (S,M etc.)
  5. Naming Notes in the treble (4TH – 6TH Grades)

October:

  1. Major/ Minor modes
  2. Pentatonic scales
  3. Major…Do pentatonic
  4. Minor…La pentatonic
  5. Tempo (Fast/slow)
  6. Rhythm/Beat
  7. Melody
  8. Dorian mode
  9. Playing the Recorder (Upper Grades)
  10. Improvisation

December:

  1. Form
  2. Binary (AB)
  3. Ternary (ABA)
  1. Note Value
  2. Melody
  3. Pentatonic Scale (Review)
  4. Do and La pentatonic scale
  1. Rhythm/Beat
  2. Whole rest, half rest, single eighth note
  1. Improvisation
  2. Multicultural songs and dances

January:

  1. Rhythm. Beat
  2. Complex rhythmic patterns
  3. Melody
  4. Natural minor
  5. Sol mi la
  6. Meter: 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4
  7. Form
  8. Call and Response
  9. Key signature
  10. Upbeat

February

  1. Rhythm/Beat
  2. Compound rhythmic patterns
  3. Melody
  4. Sol pentatonic
  5. La pentachord
  6. Naming notes
  7. Note Value
  8. Melody
  9. Low ti
  10. Harmonic minor

March

  1. Rhythm/Beat
  2. Dotted rhythm
  3. Melody
  4. High Do
  5. Re pentatonic
  6. Fa
  7. Naming notes
  8. Note value
  9. Review Dorian mode (6th grade)
  10. Form
  11. Theme and Variation

April

  1. Rhythm/Beat
  2. Whole note
  3. Melody
  4. High ti
  5. I IV V7 chords
  6. Naming notes
  7. Note value
  8. Review natural and harmonic minor and dorian mode… compare the

Difference

6. Composing/arranging music with specific guidelines

May

  1. Rhythm./Beat
  2. Review dotted rhythm
  3. Melody
  4. Do pentachord
  5. Do hexachord
  6. Half and whole steps
  7. Notes of the bass clef
  8. Improvisation …melodies, movement

June

1. Review all concepts

Year Sequence of Music Elements

Kindergarten:

  1. Matching pitch and tuneful singing
  2. Repertoire of at least 50 songs
  3. Feel the steady beat
  4. Fast and slow
  5. Loud and soft
  6. High and low
  7. Short and long
  8. Same and different
  9. Smooth and jerky
  10. Improvisation (movement and text)

First Grade:

  1. Matching pitch
  2. Different voices (singing, whisper, speaking, shouting)
  3. Rhymes and songs (difference between)
  4. Ta (Quarter note)
  5. Ti-ti (Two eighth notes)
  6. Rest (Quarter rest)
  7. Two beat rhythm ostinato
  8. Two beat meter ( measure, bar line, double bar line and repeat sign)
  9. Sol and mi
  10. La in a sol-la-mi pattern

Second Grade:

  1. Review all first grade concepts
  2. La in a sol-mi-la-sol-mi pattern
  3. Half note
  4. Four beat meter
  5. Do
  6. Re
  7. Pentatonic scale

Third Grade:

  1. Review all second grade concepts
  2. Dotted half note
  3. Treble clef
  4. Do pentatonic (major)
  5. La pentatonic (minor)
  6. Tika tika paired 16th notes
  7. Low la
  8. Low sol
  9. Treble staff… absolute pitch names of B A G and F E D and C
  10. Rounds, canons, partner songs,

Fourth Grade:

  1. Review all third grade concepts
  2. High do
  3. Ti-ta-ti (Syn-co-pa)
  4. La pentatonic
  5. Whole note
  6. Half rest
  7. Sol pentatonic
  8. Dotted quarter note (tam-ti) and a single eighth note
  9. Fa
  10. Half and whole steps
  11. Key signatures of G major and F major
  12. Call and response songs

Fifth Grade:

  1. Review all fourth grade concepts
  2. Re pentatonic scale
  3. Do pentachord and do hexachord
  4. Whole rest
  5. Low ti
  6. Ti-tam (single eighth note and dotted quarter note)
  7. Ti
  8. Upbeat
  9. Three beat meter
  10. Tim-ri (dotted eighth note and sixteenth note)
  11. Playing high register on the soprano recorder
  12. Composing a piece with specific guidelines (Zoo Tunes)
  13. Songs with melodic ostinati

Sixth Grade:

  1. Review all fifth grade concepts
  2. Eighth rest
  3. Major scale
  4. Key signature of D
  5. Compound rhythms
  6. Six eight meter
  7. Natural minor
  8. Harmonic minor
  9. Dorian mode
  10. Binary and ternary form
  11. Key signature of B flat major and G minor
  12. Playing soprano and alto Recorder
  13. Playing guitar
  14. Learning the notes of the bass clef
  15. I IV V7 chord progression
  16. La pentachord
  17. Singing art songs