Year-at-a-Glance
Music Listening Curriculum
2nd Grade Henry Law: Teacher
PERFORMING/CREATING RESPONDING:AMERICAN, POPULAR, RESPONDING: CONCERT
WORLD MUSIC
AUGUST Review Sol-Mi and La Wee Willie Winkie Pachelbel's Canon in D
Review 1st grade rhythm Lucy Locket March of the Animals
and notation
Call and Response
Ostinato
SEPTEMBER Introduce Do “Hop Old Sqiurrel” song Ravel’s Bolero
Body Percussion Create body percussion Waltz of the Flowers
Accompaniment accompaniment to the song
Speech Ostinato Create a speech ostinato with the song
Put all elements together
“Walk and Stop” song
OCTOBER Introduce Re Green Gravel Handel’s “Halleluiah Chorus”
Rhythmic ostinato Use this song to introduce Do and the Rossini La Gazza Ladra
(unpitched percussion) fermata
Fermata Have part of the class on percussion
Introduction and Coda and part walking to the song
Create a percussion intro and coda to
the song
“Great Big house in New Orleans”
NOVEMBER Introduce Pentatonic Hwi Ne Ya He- Native American Folk Song Debussy’s “La Fille Aux
Broken Bordun Compose a vocal ostinato with the Cheveux De Lin (The Girl
Vocal/ Sung ostinato melody and harmonic With The Flaxen Hair)”
D.C. al Fine accompaniment with the bordun Beethoven No. 9
Learn about D.C al fine
“Rockin’ by the Baby”
Year-at-a-Glance
Music Listening Curriculum
2nd Grade Henry Law: Teacher
DECEMBER/ Continue Pentatonic “Jugamos En El Bosque” (We Are In The Ravel’s “Mother Goose”
JANUARY Speech Canon Woods) Good morning Blues
Question and Answer Pentatonic
Measure and Barline Question and Answer game
Create a speech cannon to play during
the game
Mary Wore Her Red Dress.
FEBRUARY Introduction to the staff via Learn notes on the staff via instruments Show notation for pieces that
lines and spaces (bordun) we had worked on in class
Whole notes “Oro, My Bodeen” (Canon in D, Hallelujah, Etc.)
Whole rests “I-Tisket, I-Tasket” Worry, Worry, Worry
Half Rests
Level Bordun
MARCH Review 1st grade concepts “Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees”- verse Shostakovich’s “Galop”
of Expressive Elements and refrain Stars and Stripes Forever
Verse and Refrain “Okki Tokki Unga”- Fine
First and Second Endings
Fine
APRIL Dynamics: Crescendos and “I Had A Rooster”- Folk Song Haydn: “Surprise Symphony”
Decrescendos In the Hall of the Mountain
First and Second endings “Best Things” – Lucky Chops King
MAY Timbre: Woodwind, Brass, “Jazz Police” – by Gordon Goodwin Introduction to Symphony
String, Percussion Orchestras instrumentation
Rondo Eastern Asian Music with unfamiliar Pictures at an Exhibition
instruments
Year-at-a-Glance
Music Listening Curriculum
2nd Grade Henry Law: Teacher
Cross Curricular Connections
Math: In second grade students are still adding, subtracting and being introduced to multiplication. Through teaching notation, I will be focusing
on adding things together so the students understand that a whole rest is broken up in to 4 beats, etc.
English: The Verse and refrain can be tied to poetry in the English. The refrain can always be repeating and the verses tell the story. I can have
the students compose their own refrain and tell a story through poetry then add music to it.
History: Many of these classical pieces have strong history in the way it is composed. Many of them were written in times of great distress in the
composers home countries. I can connect these topics to what they are doing in history with some stretches.
Science: N/A
