Music Scope and Sequence K-6
Grade
Rhythm
Kindergarten
Keep a steady beat
Beat & divided beat (ta, ti-ti)
1st
Beat/divided beat/ and one beat rest.
One sound on a beat (ta), two sounds
on a beat (ti-ti). Draw, read, recognize
and perform rhythm stems for ta and
ti-ti.
Add ta-ah (half note- two beats) and
half rest. Be able to recognize and
perform ta, ti-ti, ta-ah & rest in
various songs and rhythmic exercises.
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
Introduce whole note, dotted half
note, and four 16th notes per beat. Be
able to play and sing rhythms
correctly. Add note heads to rhythm
stems, stem direction. Strong and
weak beats. Introduce grouping beats
into meters of 2, 3, & 4.
Add tie & slur notation. Introduce
syncopation. Add grouping 16th and
8th notes in various beat
combinations.
Meter: duple, triple.
Time signatures
Add dotted quarter & eighth note
combinations, and the triplet.
Introduce 6/8 and mixed meter and
time signatures.
Dotted 8th and 16th notes in various
combinations.
All time signatures in meters of 2, 3, 4,
and 8, plus mixed meters.
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Melody
Singing and Solfege
Speaking vs. singing.
Different voices and environmental
sounds. Introduce matching pitch, intune singing on sol & mi & la, using
solfege hand signs.
Add sol, mi, & la as note heads (pitch) on
simple staff. Recognize these pitches by
sight, by sound, and by using hand signs
In-tune singing. Folk and traditional
repertoire.
Add re and do. Recognize combinations
& patterns of d-r-m-s-and la by sight,
sound, and by using hand signs. Identify
recurring melodic patterns in songs i.e.
m-r-d. In-tune singing. Folk and
traditional repertoire.
Add melodic direction and contour.
Add high do. d-r-m-s-l-d1
Pentatonic songs.
Seeing, hearing, and recognizing pitch
patterns in songs and music.
Folk and traditional repertoire.
Music of many cultures.
Add fa and ti to complete the major
scale. Add low la and ti below do. Sing,
read, and recognize pitch patterns.
Question and answer phrases. Play and
read notes on the staff for the soprano
recorder: B, A, G, and E, D.
Add low s1, l1, t1. Recorder: add learn to
read and play middle C and high C, F and
F#. American & patriotic music. Folk
and traditional repertoire.
Melodies in C, G, D and F with key
signatures. Read, play & sing correct
notes reading from the staff.
Music from world culture, and
differences in music in various historical
periods
Each grade level ADDS to concepts learned in the previous year.
Harmony
Form
Expressive Qualities
Simple ostinato
AB
Comparatives:
loud/soft, fast/slow, high/low,
up/down, same/different,
sound/silence, smooth/detached
Vocal & rhythmic
ostinato.
Major and minor songs.
Phrase, ABA
Same/different
phrases
Tempo, dynamics, timbre, repeat
signs
Add 2 part rounds,
melodic and rhythmic
rounds and in
combination.
Add rondo, i.e.
ABACABA
ABA
Add vocal and instrumental timbres.
Add bar line to section off beats.
Dynamic markings f and p.
2 and 3 part rounds, vocal
& instrumental. Rounds
using pentatonic songs.
Layering 2 and 3 part
rhythmic or vocal ostinato
or patterns.
Add
introduction,
coda, and
interlude.
Introduce the 5 line staff, moveable
do. Introduce the musical alphabet.
Steps, skips, repeats on staff and in
solfege scale.
Add treble clef sign, fermata, accent,
staccato, and D.C. al Fine.
Identify the tonal center
as do in major.
Vocal & instrumental
ostinato.
AABA
Add the tonal center as
do in major and la in
minor. Instrument
families.
Chordal accomp. in C, G,
F,D. Singing and playing
parallel 3rds & 6ths.
Monophonic, polyphonic,
& homophonic
Add theme and
variation
AB-Chorus
Add cresc. & decresc. symbols &
abbreviations.
Add 1st & 2nd endings.
Bar lines, double bar line
pp & ff
largo, moderato
mp, mf, sharp, flat, natural, playing
and singing a slur.
Staff reading.
Sonata Form:
ABA.
Symphony,
ballet, band,
musical theatre,
various styles.
Play and sing with sensitivity and
attention to all expressive qualities.
Tie vs. slur, staccato,
1st & 2nd endings, ritardando (rit.),
sfz. All dynamic markings.
Music Scope and Sequence K-6
Each grade level ADDS to concepts learned in the previous year.
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