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.

Outcomes and Components:

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.

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Standard(s)

  FA.1M.1.1 Create movements in duple and triple meter, both imitatively and independently. MU:Pr.4.3.1a
  FA.1M.1.2 Identify and describe the difference between duple and triple meter. MU:Pr4.2.1.a
  FA.1M.1.3 Identify and perform known rhythms and half notes/rests in both duple and triple meter. MU:Pr4.2.1.a
  FA.1M.1.4 Identify and demonstrate duple and triple meter, verbally, aurally, and physically.

MU:Pr4.2.1.a,

MU:Pr.4.3.1a

  FA.1M.1.5 Create and improvise a 2-3 bar rhythm in duple and in triple meter on various instruments. MU:Cr1.1.1b, MU:Cr3.1.1a
  FA.1M.1.6 Notate and perform a 2-3 bar rhythm in duple and triple meter using iconic and standard notation. MU:Cr.1.1b, MU:Pr.4.2.1b

Academic Vocabulary: Create, Identify, Notate, Perform, Describe

Content Vocabulary: Meter, Rhythm, Notation, Instruments