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Elementary Elementary Music Grade 3

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Suggested Prerequisites

N/A

Description

Embark on a musical journey with our Music Grade 3 course. This dynamic and engaging course helps students deepen their understanding of music through interactive lessons, creative activities, and performance opportunities. Students will explore musical concepts such as dynamics and tempo, along with a variety of musical styles and instruments. Through singing, movement, and listening exercises, students will enhance their musical skills and appreciation, fostering a lifelong love for music.

Module One: Rhythm Rockstars

-Elements of music 

-Introduction to music 

-Active listening 

-Music classroom and performance behaviors 

-Rhythm 

-Steady beat 

-Strong beat and weak beat 

-Meters of 2, 3, and 4

-Time signature

-Whole note and whole rest

-Four sixteenths

-Dotted half note

-Matching aural and written rhythm patterns

-Rearranging rhythmic patterns

-Arranging a rhythmic accompaniment 


Module Two: Melody Mania

-What is melody?

-Step, skip, leap, and repeat

-Pentatonic scale

-Octave

-Musical alphabet

-Treble staff note names

-Melodic ostinato

-Extended pentatonic scale

-Rearranging melodic patterns

-Improvising melodies

-Adding accompaniment

-Tonic and dominant chords

-Notating melodic patterns

-Singing canons


Module Three: Discovering Dynamics

-What are dynamics?

-Mezzo piano and mezzo forte

-Sforzando

-Identifying dynamics in a song

-How conductors show dynamics

-Playing and singing with dynamics

-Notating dynamics

-Singing rounds

-Using dynamics to blend 

-Legato, staccato, and accents

-Describing how dynamics change the mood

-Dynamics in the world around you

-Changes in dynamics

-Using dynamics to enhance a story


Module Four: Speed of Sound

-What is tempo

-Presto, allegro, andante, adagio, largo

-Performing songs with tempo

-Identifying tempo

-Notating tempo

-Responding to tempo through art and movement

-Tempo in the world around you

-Responding to tempo through art and movement

-Describe how tempo changes the mood of a song

-Accelerando and ritardando

-Using tempo to bring a story or poem to life

 

Module Five: Musical Puzzles

-What is form?

-AB, ABA, Rondo

-Identify patterns in songs

-Describe the form of a familiar song

-Unison and two-part singing

-Call and response

-Echo songs

-Rounds and canons

-Comparing music to other subjects

-Verse, chorus, and refrain

-Listening maps

-Song memorization

-Creating alternate endings


Module Six: We Are Family

-What is timbre?

-Orchestra sections and their instruments

-Single reed vs. double reed

-Band and ensemble groups

-Identify music from different cultures

-Compare indigenous instruments

-Cultural folk dances


Module Seven: Musical Influencers

-Listening skills 

-Baroque period

-Classical period 

-Connecting music to other arts 

-Sharing opinions

-Purpose of music

-Music through American history 

-American composers

-Performance techniques

-Evaluating a performance


Module Eight: Composer Quest

-Role of musicians in the community

-Role of music in daily life

-Opportunities to make music

-Leadership in music

-Innovative music tools

-Traits of successful musicians

-Using music to bring stories to life

-Collaboration

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