About Fifth Grade Music
Fifth graders participate in music for the entire year. Attending class 1 to 2 times a week. They also have a performance in combination with 4th grade in the fall. In class we focus on...
Pulse
Rhythm
Melody
Harmony
Tonality
Dynamics
Tempo
Tone Color
Texture
Form
Style
- Perform through reading in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.
Rhythm
- Identify quarter note, 8th note pair, 4 sixteenth notes, quarter rest, half note, half rest, whole rest, and whole notes with traditional notation.
- Perform quarter note, 8th note pair, 4 sixteenth notes, quarter rest, half note, half rest, whole rest, and whole notes.
- Explore syncopated rhythms
Melody
- Identify do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, high do
- Identify the term treble clef
- Introduce sharp and flat
- Identify pitches C4 to C5
- Introduce the term ledger line
- Explore melodic vocal exploration (iconic/non-traditional notation)
- Explore inner hearing
Harmony
- Explore simple vocal harmonies with ostinati, canons, and rounds
- Explore harmonies on pitched classroom instruments
- Explore singing of partner songs
Tonality
- Explore terms scale and tonal center
- Explore major/minor tonalities
Dynamics
- Perform known dynamic markings (pp,p, f, ff, crescendo, and decrescendo)
- Introduce dynamic markings mp and mf
Tempo
- Perform tempos presto and largo
- Perform tempo changes accelerando and ritenuto
- Introduce terminology andante and allegro
Tone Color
- Introduce changed, unchanged voices
Texture
- Explore partner songs
- Identify pitched and unpitched ostinati
Form
- Introduce theme and variations
- Introduce first and second endings
- Explore rondo
- Explore call/responses, introduction, phrase
- Identify symbols for repeat sign, D.S. and coda
Style
- Explore various styles of music
- Exploring the function and context of lyrics in music