Music

Music is Fun for Everyone!

Welcome to Music! I want everyone to find something they enjoy when they visit the music room. That’s why we play instruments, sing songs, perform dances, and hear great music. Since different children learn in different ways, every class uses movement, singing, reading, writing and creating music. These activities can even help them learn when they return to their classroom!

Music Concepts

1. Rhythm (beat, long and short sounds)

2. Pitch-Melody (tune, high and low sounds)

3. Harmony-Texture (accompaniment, more than one sound)

4. Expressive Elements (tempo/speed, dynamics/loudness)

5. Form (verse-chorus, same and different sections)

Thank you Parents!

Many kind students have blessed the music program with much-needed tissues, stickers, pencils and erasers. I know behind every thoughtful student is an equally thoughtful and generous parent. It is a big help to me to have these resources available.

Recorder Karate

Fourth graders are playing recorders with an extra-exciting method this year – Recorder Karate! They earn different colored belts for being able to play different songs that get harder as they go. This has them really motivated to read and play independently.

Sumner County Symphony

This group will visit us October 4th to entertain us with “Janet’s Planet.”

Multicultural Fair

The whole school will team up on November 17, 2006 to showcase how people in other countries live. Kindergarten will have Africa, first grade will have Ireland, second grade will have Mexico, third grade will have Japan, and fourth grade will have Australia. Students have already learned songs, games and dances from these interesting lands in music.

Christmas Program

Our 3rd and 4th grade will amaze and delight you in December with a musical Christmas Program.

The Nashville Opera

A group we always look forward to, the Nashville Opera, will visit in February to perform “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”

Spring Program

Our 2nd and 1st grade will impress and astound you in May with a musical Spring Program.

The Once and Future Music Program

Here are some activities from the past that may or may not materialize this year due to Ms. Amy’s maternity leave. Look forward to them returning in the 2007-2008 school year.

1. Third and fourth grade field trip to hear the Nashville Symphony in the

Ryman auditorium.

2. Honor Choir with young singers from all around Sumner County. This

happens in the spring of even-numbered years.

3. Sumner Celebrates Music! Countywide music program featuring singing,

drumming, xylophones, and recorders. This happens in the spring of odd-numbered years.

National Standards for Music:

1. Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

    a. demonstrate the ability to sing alone and in unison

    b. sing expressively using proper vocal technique

    c. sing simple harmonies

2. Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

    a. demonstrate the ability to play simple rhythmic patterns

    b. demonstrate the ability to play simple melodic patterns

3. Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

    a. improvise a simple melody and variation

    b. improvise a simple accompaniment

4. Students will compose and arrange music within specific guidelines.

    a. create simple binary and ternary forms

    b. create a simple arrangement of a familiar song

5. Students will read and notate music.

    a. read selected melodic and rhythmic notation

    b. write rhythmic and melodic patterns using traditional and non-traditional notation

6. Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

    a. recognize, aurally, simple binary, ternary, and rondo forms

    b. recognize, aurally, introductions, interludes, and codas

    c. recognize, aurally, the sounds of a variety of instruments, including voices

7. Students will evaluate music and music performances.

    a. apply specific criteria in evaluating music and music performances

8. Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

    a. examine ways in which the principles of other art forms relate to those of music

    b. explore ways in which the principles of other disciplines relate to those of music

9. Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

    a. identify by genre or style aural examples of music from various cultures

    b. discuss the correlation of events, composers, and music from various historical periods