Music Curriculum
1st Grade
Course Purpose: |
Students will engage in the basics of musical notation and composition on a variety of instruments, and investigate how personal choices help create musical ideas. |
Outcome # |
Outcome |
FA.1M.1 | Students will perform and identify the beat, the rhythm, and the meter of a known song on a variety of instruments, incorporating known rhythms and half notes/rests, and verbally and visually be able to differentiate between the two. |
FA.1M.2 | Students will explore and analyze the form and instrumental makeup of a variety of works by different composers. |
FA.1M.3 | Students will improvise, compose, and perform, using both standard and non-standard notation, musical and rhythmic phrases of various lengths, including known rhythms, half note/rest, and solfege syllables (sol, mi, and la). |
FA.1M.4 | Students will prepare and perform, vocally and instrumentally, a variety of age and range-appropriate music from various cultures and traditions, with guidance, for an audience of peers, friends, and families. |
FA.1M.5 | Students will analyze a standard orchestral work to discuss ways music can tell a story, perform extended dynamics and perform and conduct in duple meter (simple and compound) |
FA.1M.6 | Students will describe, create, and perform a song based on sol, mi, and la consisting of steps, leaps, and skips, either individually or as a call and response song with the teacher, through analyzing and performing various classroom songs. |
FA.1M.7 | Students will improvise and perform various musical phrases and forms, to include simple broken borduns and melodies using sol, mi, and la, on both pitched and unpitched instruments. |