2013 ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM

Appreciation 
OCTOBER
Genres:
(links to just some of what we listen to)
Latin - Salsa, Mambo
Jazz and Blues
Country and Western
Rock and Rap

NOVEMBER
Classical Month:
Kodaly's Viennese Musical Clock
Bach's Little Fugue
Bach's Minuet in G (The Supremes)
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto

DECEMBER
Opera: (taught by Middle School)
Hansel and Gretal - Humperdink
Magic Flute - Mozart
Rigoletto - Verdi
Barber of Seville - Rossini
Little Prince - Portman
Madame Butterfly - Puccini
Carmen - Bizet
Aida - Verdi

JANUARY - FEBRUARY
Opera review

American History:
Native American music
Revolutionary War: Star Spangled Banner
Music for the Underground Railroad
Civil War: North vs. South music/lyics
Frontier Music: gold rush, homesteaders, railroad, cowboysBlue Grass music

MARCH-APRIL
A month of American composers:
Sousa (El Capitan is the perfect tempo for students learning the cup song)
Gershwin
Copland
Jopland
 
APRIL-MAY
Music from Asia
India
Korea
Japan
China
Middle East/Arabia
Philippenes
 

Theory
We follow the Music Mind Games curriculum

Play
Fall Unit - voice

Winter Unit - Boomwhackers

Spring Unit - Hand percussion

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