October 2, 2012

2012 ELEMENTARY MUSIC APPRECIATION

OCTOBER
Music & Movies: soundtracks, commercials, religious
Orchestra: Strings
Orchestra: Woodwinds
Orchestra: Brass

NOVEMBER
Orchestra: Percussion
Orchestra: Keyboard
Harmonica

DECEMBER
 Handel (Hallelujah Chorus) tonal notation
Vivaldi (Four Seasons) tempo terms

JANUARY
Interpreting rhythms of familiar songs
Offenbach (Can-Can) tempo terms
Verdi (Rigoletto)
FEBRUARY
Grieg (Peer Gynt)
Mendelssohn (Concerto in E Minor) concerto terms

MARCH
Bizet (Toreador Song) 4/4 meters
Music & Literature: verses and poems
Pachelbel (Cannon)  chord progression
Berloiz (Symphonie-Fantastique) articulation terms

APRIL
Sousa (Stars and Strips Forever) Key Signatures
Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade) key signatures
Strauss (Till Eulenspiegel) key signatures

MAY
Berloiz (Symphonie-Fantastique) articulation terms
South America
South America
South America
South America