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. Each Book includes lesson plans and songs, and CD-ROM has colorful visual aids to project or print.
Set of 3 Spiral paperbacks and CD-ROMs
What's included:
- K-Gr.1 Kindergarten (7577) sets the stage for joyful music explorations throughout school. Singing games, movement and dance, differentiating speak/sing voices, discovering timbres of instruments, learning to distinguish monophonic and polyphonic music, keeping a steady beat are all part of this fun stage. 28 songs with lesson plans and assessment. Grade 1 students begin linking words and music aided by repetition, rhyme and pattern, learn to differentiate steady beat and rhythm, discover quarter notes/rest, and double eighth, and manipulate them to poems, rhymes and story songs, and transfer the rhythms to percussion. 27 songs
- Gr. 2-3: Grade 2 (7559) is enthusiastic, making connections between sound and symbol, play, sing, move to, improvise with rhythms and known songs and dances, are introduced to half and whole notes and rests, play barred instruments in melody and simple orchestrations, know the full pentatonic scale. Grade 3 learns the pitches of the staff, adds syncopation, anacrusis, and dotted half to rhythms learning, explores duple, triple meter in movement, singing and playing, add more levels and parts, begin recorder with B, A, and G notes, and sing in major and minor keys.
- Gr. 4-5: Fourth graders (7461) 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, adds mixed meter to all know rhythms, 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.
