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.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)

Pacing  

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Component Code

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Standard(s)

  FA.1M.5.1 Compare several different versions of the story of the orchestral work (e.g. Peter and the Wolf). MU:Pr.4.1.1a, MU:Cn.11.0.1a
  FA.1M.5.2 Listen to a standard orchestral work (e.g. Peter and the Wolf) and discuss what elements help tell the story.

MU:Re.7.2.1b

MU:Cn.10.1.a

  FA.1M.5.3 Create a dramatic presentation of the work.

MU:Cr3.1.1a,

MU:Cr3.2.1a

  FA.1M.5.4 Perform an accurate conducting pattern in 2/4 to music. MU:Pr4.2.1.a
  FA.1M.5.5 Define and identify the purpose of stylistic elements such as piano, forte, allegro, and largo in the work.  

Academic Vocabulary: Define, Perform, Create, Listen, Compare

Content Vocabulary: Meter, Simple vs. Compound, Dynamics, Orchestra