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.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.

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Component Code

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Standard(s)
  FA.1M.7.1 Identify and perform a simple broken bordun on pitched barred instruments. MU:Pr.4.2.1b
  FA.1M.7.2 Combine standard notation building bricks to make 4-8 beat rhythmic phrases and perform individually and with a partner, on various percussion instruments. MU:Cr2.1.1b, MU:Cr3.1.1a, MU:Pr.4.2.1b
  FA.1M.7.3 Add sol, mi, and/or la to the rhythmic phrases to create a melody, and perform individually and with a partner, on various pitched instruments. MU:Cr2.1.1a, MU:Cr3.1.1a, MU:Cr3.2.1a
  FA.1M.7.4 Identify and define AB and ABA form in music, both verbally and physically. MU:Pr.4.3.1a
  FA.1M.7.5 Identify a variety of classroom percussion verbally and aurally. MU:Pr.4.1.1a

Academic Vocabulary: Identify, Combine, Define, Perform

Content Vocabulary: Standard Notation, Solfege, Melody