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.

• 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

• Sing unaccompanied, accompanied, and in unison

• Recognize harmony; sing rounds

• Recognize verse and refrain

• Continue work with timbre and phrasing

• Review names of musical notes; scale as a series of notes; singing the C major scale using “do re mi” etc