A Thoughtful and Engaging Music Curriculum by Don Dupont and Brian Hiller.
The goal of this series is to provide curriculum tools and resources to teach skills and concepts in an aesthetic and creative class environment. Repertoire and activities to teach elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, form, texture, and timbre are carefully selected and sequenced to allow the concepts to spiral and build with each new piece. Book includes lesson plans and songs, and CD-ROM has colorful visual aids to project or print.
Fourth graders make connections to printed music, incorporate eighths, sixteenths and dotted quarters, add fa and ti to complete major scale, sing, play, speak in multi layered canons, improv more, and add pitches to their recorder study. 34 songs include Orff parts, ostinati, body percussion, found sounds, solfege, and full lesson plans.
FIfth graders read songs in score, add mixed meter to rhythms learning, presents diatonic scale in major and minor, learn chord progressions, explore themes and variations, and continue to sing, play, speak, improv in more multi-layers. 36 songs with plans and focuses.
Spiral Paperback & CD-ROM
