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Brief Curriculum Overview
Each year builds on the previous year
K- Audiation, Resting Tone, Body Movement (Flow, Space, Weight, Time), Four Voices, Dynamics, Tempo, Steady Beat, Listening Maps, Beethoven, Solfege (SO MI)
1- Audiation, Body Movement, Beat vs Rhythm, Phrase, Instrument Families, Note Reading, Dynamics, Solfege (SO LA MI), Program Music (Peter and the Wolf), Mozart, Composing
2- Audiation, Beat vs Rhythm, Duple vs Triple Identification, Note Reading, Solfege (DO RE MI), Program Music (Carnival of the Animals), Form, Instrument Families, Listening Journals, Recorders
3- Audiation, Exploring Tonalities, Solfege (DO RE MI SO LA), Note Reading, Writing and Composition, Math in Music, Orff instrument playing, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, John Williams, Jazz, Ukuleles
4- Audiation, Syncopation, Exploring Tonalities, Note Reading, Solfege (Pentatonic Scale, FA ,TI), Form, Music Composition, Conducting, Part Singing, Reggae, Gustav Holst's The Plants, The Science of Sound, John Williams, Ukuleles