Arts Curriculum Guide

Music

Grade 5

Grade 5
Music
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Demonstrate an understanding of various rhythmic patterns through:
- movement
- performance
- description
- notation.
- Review patterns (aural and visual) using all known durations.

- Review note values, rest values, meters and markings.

- Earth Cheer activity from Zounds!, pp.111-112.

Move, perform, describe, and write various rhythmic patterns from either listening activities or performance. - Performance assessment of movement per teacher-generated rubric.

- Teacher assessment of notation and description.

 

- Conduct vocal or instrumental performance with various meters.

- Compose and perform an original piece with appropriate notation to show rhythmic notation.

- Make a rhythm instrument.

- Video series Wynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

- Zounds!

- Video Bringing Multicultural Music to Children by Patricia Sheehan Campbell

- Yamaha Music in Education

- Music Connection by Silver-Burdett & Ginn

Grade 5
Music
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  Demonstrate an understanding of syncopation.

 

- Introduce syncopation/no syncopation.

- Provide students with listening and singing examples.

 

 

- Move, perform, describe and write various rhythmic patterns incorporating syncopation.

- Perform and listen to songs with syncopation.

Performance assessment of singing and movement per teacher-generated rubric.

 

- Conduct vocal or instrumental performance involving syncopation.

- Compose and perform an original piece with appropriate notation to show syncopation.

- Make a rhythm instrument and use to demonstrate phrases with and without syncopation.

 

- Share the Music from McMillan & McGraw Hill

- Yamaha Music in Education

- Video series Wynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

 

Grade 5
Music
3

 

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  Produce vocal tones using head voice. Relate to concept of vocal register. - Demonstrate range and register of head voice.

- Review diction, breathing, and pure tone quality.

- Increase the range and difficulty of song repertoire.

- Develop understanding of head voice through listening to various styles of music and performers.

- Sing songs with pure sound and true pitch.

Performance assessment of movement per teacher-generated rubric.

 

- Perfect and memorize songs already in repertoire.

- Perform in a chorus.

- Learn new songs with targeted melodic, rhythmic and chordal patterns.

- Incorporate sound singing techniques with learning of new songs.

- Yamaha Music in Education

- Music Connection by Silver-Burdett & Ginn

- Share the Music from McMillan & McGraw Hill

- Video series Wynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

 

Grade 5
Music
4

 

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  - Demonstrate an understanding of 2 and 3 part singing.

- Identify individual vocal tone: soprano, alto, tenor, bass.

 

- Increase the range and difficulty of song repertoire.

- Teach songs with different groupings: duet, trio, quartet and chorus.

- Introduce range of individual vocal tone: soprano, alto, tenor, bass.

- Discuss various forms of harmony.

 

- Compare/contrast songs with various vocal harmonies.

- Sing songs using various vocal harmonies.

- Play simple harmonies on instruments.

- Describe differences heard between group and individual singing.

Performance assessment of singing per teacher-generated rubric. - Create a presentation that compares/contrasts songs with various vocal harmonies. Share with an appropriate audience.

- Write songs using various vocal and/or instrumental harmonies.

- Analyze popular recordings and describe differences heard between group and individual singing.

- Music Connection by Silver-Burdett & Ginn

- Share the Music from McMillan & McGraw Hill

- Video series Wynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

 

Grade 5
Music
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  Identify the solfege syllables of the diatonic scale. - Explain diatonic scale with math, visuals, sounds.

- Explain half and whole step patterns of the scale as related to the keyboard.

- Relate to steps, leaps and solfege syllables.

- Sing diatonic scale with syllables.

- Play diatonic scale on keyboard.

Performance assessment per teacher-generated rubric. - Create a chart showing a diatonic scale. Show the steps. Label with appropriate solfege syllables.

- Form and play within a recorder ensemble.

- Research and report on the scale used to compose Japanese music.

- Transpose a scale written in C to different keys.

- Music Connection by Silver-Burdett & Ginn

- Share the Music from McMillan & McGraw Hill

- Video seriesWynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

 

Grade 5
Music
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  Identify intervals of a 3rd and 6th.

 

Identify through visuals, listening exercises, notation, and hand movements intervals of a third and a sixth.

 

Sing and write intervals of 3rds and 6ths. Identify when heard or occuring in songs under study. Performance assessment per teacher-generated rubric. - Create an original piece that incorporates leaps of a third and a sixth. Color code each so that the pattern is easily discernible. Play on a keyboard or available instrument.

- Form and play within a recorder ensemble.

- Music Connection by Silver-Burdett & Ginn

- Share the Music from McMillan & McGraw Hill

- Video series Wynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

Grade 5
Music
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  Apply knowledge of expressive qualities such as staccato, and legato to performance. Introduce and define terms; relate musical texture to other kinds of texture - smooth/bumpy. Visualize texture: legato is smooth as silk, staccato is bumpy like pebbles. Draw or show through word and movement, or sight and sound the difference between legato, staccato. Performance assessment per teacher-generated rubric.

 

Create a poster showing the terms staccato and legato with pictures that give a cue as to their meaning.

 

- Music Connection by Silver-Burdett & Ginn

- Share the Music from McMillan & McGraw Hill

- Video series Wynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

 

Grade 5
Music
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Demonstrate an understanding of tempo cues:
- moderato
- accel.
- ritardando
- maestoso
Introduce vocabulary and demonstrate tempo markings. Listen to, sing, and chant various tempo markings. Performance assessment per teacher-generated rubric.

 

- Create an original piece that incorporates a variety of tempo and use the appropriate terminology.

- Perform for an audience to see if they recognize the tempo changes.

- Analyze a classical piece through listening/viewing and find examples of tempo cues.

 

- Music Connection by Silver-Burdett & Ginn

- Share the Music from McMillan & McGraw Hill

- Video series Wynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

Grade 5
Music
9

 

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- Identify classical forms/genres:
- symphony
- opera
- concerto
- theme & variation
- Compare forms previously studied with these:
- Intro-coda
- interlude.

 

- Present and identify specific examples of symphony, opera, concerto, and theme, and variations. Analyze them.

- Identify various song forms through listening, singing and visual (written in simple rhythmic form), ABA, ABC, etc.

 

- Become familiar through listening and viewing the melody and form of symphony, opera, concerto.

- Write and play various exercises wusing coda-interlude.

- Review various song forms. Compare and contrast with intro-coda-interlude.

  - Join a field trip to a symphony or multicultural music performance.

- Listen to a Brown Bag Opera performance.

- View and analyze a taped performance of a classical work&emdash; describe composer, culture, time.

- Video seriesWynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

- Video Bringing Multicultural Music to Children by Patricia Sheehan Campbell

Grade 5
Music
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  Identify changes in chords and cadence.

 

- Provide examples of changes in chords and cadence.

- Describe the difference between major and minor key harmonies.

- Provide examples for listening and critical analysis.

- Compare and contrast chord accompaniment. Sing songs with various chord groupings as accompaniment. Discuss the differences.

- Play chord changes with autoharp, xylophones, melody bells.

  - Research and identify folk songs written with major or minor chords.

- Prepare a presentation that shows the differences. Relate to keyboard or other instrument.

- Music Connection by Silver-Burdett & Ginn

- Share the Music from McMillan & McGraw Hill

- Video series Wynton Marsalis on Music (also website)

Additional resources:
 
- MMEA- Mass. Music Educators' Assn.
- MENC- Music Educators National Conference
- BAKE- Boston Area Kodaly Educators
- OAKE- Organization of American Kodaly Educators

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