Elementary Elementary Music Grade 1

Module One: Beat Blast

-music classroom and performance behaviors

-steady beat and non-steady beat

-strong beats and weak beats

-rhythm

-body movements

-music notation

-songs such as In the Hall of the Mountain King and America the Beautiful

Module Two: Melody Makers

-melody

-melodic contour

-staff and treble clef

-pitch

-head voice

-solfege

-melodic patterns

-songs such as You Are My Sunshine and Frère Jacques

Module Three: Dynamic Duos

-dynamics (forte and piano)

-feelings

-staccato and legato

-body movements

-songs such as John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt and Canon in D

Module Four: Tempo Time

-tempo (allegro and largo)

-tempo changes

-feelings and emotions

-listening maps

-songs such as Symphony No. 5 and Flight of the Bumblebee

Module Five: Building Blocks

-patterns

-form (AB, ABA, ABCA, ABAC, and AABA)

-repeat sign

-verse and chorus form

-call and response form

-songs such as This Old Man and Shoo Fly

Module Six: Tone Adventures

-timbre

-tone

-instrument families

-percussion instrument technique

-The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

-environmental sounds

-voice types

-vocal technique

-solo vs. group of singers

-songs such as Baa, Baa, Little Sheep and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt

Module Seven: Red, White, and Music

-listening

-American Folk songs

-comparing and contrasting songs

-composers

-composing songs

-songs such as Home on the Range and Simple Gifts

Module Eight: Music Makers

-composition

-music elements

-classroom and performance behaviors

-participating in music

-enhancing poems and chants

-improvising

-rhythmic and melodic response

-aural and written patterns

-songs such as This is the Way We Brush Our Teeth and Che Che Kule