MUSIC & MOVEMENT CLASS CURRICULUM SUMMARY: Fall/Winter 2013-14

The 3’s & 4’s classes meet twice a week for music, once in the music room and once in the classroom. We have been working on individual and ensemble listening and responding skills, early music literacy, improvising and creating sounds and music. Our activities include rhymes, songs, poems, movement, structured dance and instruments. The musical concepts on which the lessons are based include:

·         A sense of pulse (steady beat)

·         A sense of duration (long/short, patterns, rhythm)

·         A sense of tempo (fast/slow)

·         A sense of pitch (high/low)

·         A sense of dynamics (loud/soft)

·         A sense of structure (same/different)

·         A sense of timbre (tone color)

·         A sense of texture (one sound/several sounds)

·         A sense of style