

| Students are becoming more aware as they move toward a middle school age level and begin learning key signatures, the science behind music, as well as capitals, presidents, and history. There is always more to learn as the music lessons become more advanced. |
| Level 456 Music Lesson Contents Lesson 1: State Capitals Work with singing technique and breathing, head voice versus chest voice, hand signs for the major scale, scale steps with Roman numerals, major scale whole and half steps, intervals, and rhythms. Song, “I Left My Big Yellow Dog in Topeka,” state capital activity, singing in rounds. Lesson 2: Israel Major and Minor tonality, musical form, form activity with worksheet, note names and rhythms, symbolism in music and art. Song "Wade in the Water,” story of Moses and the Red Sea, creating a recipe activity. Lesson 3: Presidents More with minor tonality, note names and symbols,melody shape, strophic form, dancing the tango. Song, “President Tango,” puzzle activity, rhythm game activities, listening activity. Lesson 4: American Civil War Rhythm flash cards, simple keyboarding, chords, harmony, rondo form. Song "Brother Against Brother", rhythm clapping and Civil War era listening activities. Lesson 5: Folk Music Chords and cadences, primary chord progression, a capella vs. accompanied, solfege with chords, rhythms. Song “Amazing Grace,” Popsicle stick activity classical listening. Lesson 6: Metric Measurement Chord progressions/blues progression, triad scales, chord roots and primary chords, syncopated rhythms. Song: “Metric Blues,” chord “paddle” activity, blues creating activity, measuring, field day activity. Lesson 7: Continents 6/8 time,, solfege triads, theme and variations, creating theme and variations. Continents. song “In the Land,” rhythm chart activity, counting activity. Lesson 8: Circle of Fifths Key signatures, 3/4 time, , fifths feeling “three,” song “There is a Circle,” keyboarding activity, shaker activity, listening activity. Lesson 9: Dictionary Ear training, rhythms with ties, form review, keeping the beat, melody recognition. Song, “Oh Dictionary,” word game, dictionary drill, musical terms, biography. Lesson 10 : What is Music? Scale steps on solfege and numbers, sixteenth notes, noise versus music, organization of music. Song, “I Believe,” recording activity. Lesson 11: Science of Sound Solfege, singing in tune, dotted rhythms, sound waves, frequency, science of sound experiments. Song, “Two things,” museum field trip. Lesson 12: Making Instruments Solfege, rhythm review, science of sound as applied to musical instruments, choosing and creating an instrument. Song, “ Every Child Has an Angel,” listening activity. Lesson 13: Making Notation and a Composition for your Instruments Solfege and rhythm review, study of music notation. Activity, creating your own music notation, creating a composition for your instrument, listening activity. Song, “A Bruised Reed.” Lesson 14: Band Instruments Recognizing solfege patterns in songs, challenging rhythms, organization and instruments of bands and orchestras, composers, music eras. Listening activity. Song, “Just a Closer Walk.” |



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