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Scope and Sequence of Skills

Throughout Musicplay new concepts are prepared by singing,


Prepare
playing and listening. Learning music is like learning a language.
Children need to experience music before labeling it.

When children have experienced a new concept (i.e. beat) they are
ready to label it. When the teacher labels a new concept in this
Present method, it is called "present" - a new concept is made conscious
or presented to the students.

After a new concept is presented, the children need


Practice reinforcement, or practice. New musical terms or concepts are
reviewed throughout Musicplay.
Beat and Rhythm Form
• tap, play and move to a steady beat • show phrases in music
• distinguish between beat and rhythm • label phrases as same or different
• identidy accented beats • use repeat sign
• group beats into groups of two or three • AB, ABA forms
• read and rotate rhythms from flashcards and • rondo form
charts q qr Q qTq h
Expression
Ostinato • identify music as fast or slow (tempo)
• q qr at different b/p levels
• identify music as soft or loud (dynamics) and
• Borduns in patterns qQqQ qqqQ
perform where appropriate
Melody • identify accents, use connected and detached
• develop singing voice sounds. Sing expressively showing an
• identify high, low and middle in music understanding of the text.
• sing high, low and middle sounds
• reproduce melodies alone and with a group Cultural/Historical Context
• read, notate sm, slsm, smlsm, lsmd, smd patterns • perform and/or listen to songs from a variety of
• prepare mrd cultural heritages and historical periods, including
songs of Japan.
Harmony Listening
• rhythm canons, speech canons, two part melodic
• distinguish voices, environmental sounds
canons, ostinato, bordun in patterns qqqQ qQqQ
• identify families of unpitched instruments:
Instrumental Technic membrane, shaker, metal, wood
• identify and play unpitched instruments • introduce instruments of the orchestra
• simple, level, broken bordun on bar instruments • follow song stories
in patterns qQqQ qqqQ • listen to short orchestral excerpts
• complimentary color or unpitched part • write or draw in listening notebook
• metals and woods playing different things
Integrated Curriculum
Creating • integrate with literature by creating
• create “effects”and accompaniments accompaniments for poems and stories
• create/improvise rhythm patterns and melodies • songs for holidays and special days
using known symbols • songs from many cultures to supplement social
• create new verses studies
• songs for Earth Day, to reinforce science

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