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Core Knowledge Music
As students develop in their understanding and ability they explore music techniques and terminology through the study of great artists and their works. While learning about basic principles of music in the Core Knowledge Curriculum, students become prepared to articulate their ideas, feelings and judgments to others.
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Kindergarten
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- Become familiar with rhythm, melody, form
- Recognize instruments by sight and sound
- Become familiar with the 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' by Grieg and Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals
- Music and Movement from Kindergarten Songs list
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1st Grade
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- Review rhythm melody, harmony, form
- Become familiar with simple music notation
- Intro to composers, orchestra and opera.
- Listening: Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik
- Songs and movement from 1st Grade Song list
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2nd Grade
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- Review basic elements of music and notation
- Review families of instruments
- Recognize differences between piano and organ
- Explore composition
- Listening: Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, Bach's Minuet in G and Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
- Music and movement from 2nd Grade song list
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3rd Grade
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- Review basic elements of music and notation
- Review symphony orchestra
- Composers and their music: John Phillip Sousa, Aaron Copland, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky
- Intro to Jazz
- Music and Movement - 3rd Grade Song List
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4th Grade
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- Review basic elements and notation
- Introduction to singing in harmony
- Recognize vocal ranges of singers
- Listening - Britten's 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra', Handel's Messiah (The Hallelujah Chorus), Haydn's Surprise Symphony, Mozart's The Magic Flute
- Music and movement from 4th Grade Song list, especially Gregorian chant and Sea Songs
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5th Grade
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- Continue with basic music terms and notation
- Composers: Beethoven (Symphony No 5), Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition),
- Mendelssohn (Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream) and music of the Renaissance
- American Musical Traditions - Spirituals
- Songs and Movement from the 5th Grade List
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6th Grade
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- Review as necessary the orchestra, keyboard instruments and vocal ranges
- Italian musical terms
- Review musical notation
- Handbell Unit
- Classical Music from Baroque to Romantic
- Composers: Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn,
- Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann
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7th Grade
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- Review terms from earlier grades
- Recognize Italian terms
- Understand notation
- Listening: Romantics and Nationalists
- Composers and works: Brahms, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Dvorak, Grieg, Tchaikovsky
- American Musical Traditions: Blues and Jazz
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8th Grade
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- Review terms and notation from earlier grades
- Introduction to Non-Western Music
- Listening: Modern Music (Impressionists)
- Opera, Operetta, American Musical Theater, Music video and Film
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