Fifth Grade General Music Curriculum

Rhythm
Students will experience:
Beat vs Rhythm
Whole Note and Whole Rest
Half Note and Half Note
Dotted Half Note
Quarter Note and Quarter Rest
Eighth Note
Sixteenth Note
Dotted Quarter Note followed by an Eighth Note
Syncopation
Meters in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8

Melody
Students will experience:
Music Notation – being able to read the lines and spaces on the Treble Clef Staff
Solfege (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do)
Recorders (Low C all the way up to High D)
Improvising on a Pentatonic Scale
Music Composition

Form
Students will experience:
AB
ABA
ABACA

Movement and Instrument Playing
Students will experience:
Moving to both the beat and rhythm
Orff Instruments (Xylophones, Glockenspiels, Metallophones)
Variety of classroom rhythm instruments
Choir Chimes
Boom Whackers
Recorders