Music with Ms. Davis

Through participation, become familiar with basic elements of music (rhythm, melody, harmony, form, timbre, etc.).

• Recognize a steady beat, accents, and the downbeat; play a steady beat.

• Move responsively to music (marching, walking, hopping, swaying, etc.).

• Recognize short and long sounds.

• Discriminate between fast and slow; gradually slowing down and getting faster.

• Discriminate between differences in pitch: high and low.

• Discriminate between loud and soft; gradually increasing and decreasing volume.

• Understand that melody can move up and down.

• Hum the melody while listening to music.

• Echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.

• Play simple rhythms and melodies.

• Recognize like and unlike phrases.

• Recognize timbre (tone color).

• Sing unaccompanied, accompanied, and in unison.

• Recognize verse and refrain.

• Recognize that musical notes have names.

• Recognize a scale as a series of notes.

• Sing the C major scale using “do re mi” etc.

• Understand the following notation:staff, treble clef, names of lines and spaces in the treble clef, whole note, half note, quarter note whole rest, half rest, quarter rest