Music

Kindergarten

• Initiate a steady beat

• Recognize quarter notes

• Begin echo singing

• Sing with instrumental accompaniment

• Discern when a verse has ended and a chorus has begun

• Listen to band and orchestra music

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First Grade

• Maintain a steady beat

• Understand the value of half and quarter notes

• Write note heads around a line and in a space

• Identify and play pitched and un-pitched classroom instruments

• Sing songs with simple accompaniment patterns

• Recognize the AB pattern

• Recognize difference in tones of human voices

• Identify band instruments by family (brass, woodwind, percussion) and their sounds

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Second Grade

• Write whole, half, dotted half, quarter notes and rests

• Demonstrate correct posture and breathing

• Recognize the ABA pattern

• Recognize sudden or gradual changes in tempo

• Recognize sudden or gradual changes in dynamics 5

• Identify stringed instruments and their sounds

• Listen to classical music

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Third Grade

• Recognize and write eighth notes and rests

• Recognize major and minor tonality (sounds)

• Use introduction, interludes, codas

• Recognize AABB and AABA patterns

• Know meaning of signs p, mp, mf and f

• Identify different solo voices

• Identify music styles from different countries

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Fourth Grade

• Read meter signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4)

• Identify staff, treble clef and measure

• Know names of lines and spaces of treble clef

• Distinguish between secular and sacred music

• Recognize rondo form (ABACA pattern)

• Recognize terms: ritardando, accelerando, allegro and andante

• Recognize how legato and staccato affect the way music is performed

• Experience nationalistic and patriotic music

• Recognize an overture

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Fifth Grade

• Know names of lines and spaces of bass clef

• Identify and write symbols for sharp, flat and natural

• Sight-read a musical phrase

• Use D.C. al fine

• Know symbols and meanings for ritardando and accelerando

• Know symbols and meanings for crescendo, decrescendo and diminuendo

• Listen to music of the baroque period

Sixth Grade

• Recognize and write the C major scale

• Recognize the sound of a major scale

• Sight-read a simple song

• Identify and sing cadence

• Demonstrate and use first and second endings

• Identify canon form (liturgy)

• Know symbols and meanings for fermata and tenuto

• Compare the tone qualities of orchestral music from different cultures

Seventh Grade

• Identify meter changes

• Recognize the sound of a minor scale

• Sight-read a two-part song

• Recognize a bridge between two music selections

• Know the meaning of rubato

• Recognize music of Eastern cultures

• Identify hymns of Adventist heritage

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Eighth Grade

• Identify irregular meter patterns (5/4, 7/4)

• Learn all major key signatures

• Sing a more complex two-part song

• Recognize modulation

• Recognize symphonic form

• Describe how a computer can enhance music

• Listen to music of the Renaissance period

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