What's Happening in Intermediate Music Classes?
(Grades 3, 4, and 5)
Elementary music at the intermediate level is closely aligned to the national and state of Wisconsin music standards. Instruction centers around the concepts of rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, and music history culture/style. To fulfill goals and objectives within these areas, children will participate in a variety of activities including singing, speech, instrument playing, body percussion, movement, reading, writing, creating, improvising, listening, and concert performance, Children will continue to develop a link between music in their lives and in their environment. Objectives leaned at this level provide the foundation for music education at the middle school level.
Intermediate Level: Music Concepts Prepared or Learned:
Simple Meter 2/4, 4/4, and 3/4
Compound Duple Meter 6/8
Improvisation in Compound Meter
Improvisation with Sixteenth Note Combinations
Ostinato
Upbeat
Conducting in Simple and Compound Duple Meters
Dotted Notes
Dotted Quarter Note-Eighth Note Pattern (tom-ti)
Compound Duple Meter Patterns (tah ti, tititi, and tom)
Sixteenth Notes (tika-tika)
Sixteenth-Eighth and Eighth-Sixteenth Patterns (tika-ti and ti-tika)
Dotted Half Note (tah-woh-woh)
Solfege Syllables of the Extended Major Scale (s,l,t,drmfsltd'r'm')
Improvisation with Extended Pentaton
Octave
Major with "do" as Tonal Center
Minor with "la" as Tonal Center
Modes
Tonic and Dominant of a Scale
Sharps and Flats
Absolute Note Name
Listening
Learning to Play the Recorder (grades 4 and 5)
Learning to Play the Guitar (grades 3, 4, and 5)
(Grades 3, 4, and 5)
Elementary music at the intermediate level is closely aligned to the national and state of Wisconsin music standards. Instruction centers around the concepts of rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, and music history culture/style. To fulfill goals and objectives within these areas, children will participate in a variety of activities including singing, speech, instrument playing, body percussion, movement, reading, writing, creating, improvising, listening, and concert performance, Children will continue to develop a link between music in their lives and in their environment. Objectives leaned at this level provide the foundation for music education at the middle school level.
Intermediate Level: Music Concepts Prepared or Learned:
Simple Meter 2/4, 4/4, and 3/4
Compound Duple Meter 6/8
Improvisation in Compound Meter
Improvisation with Sixteenth Note Combinations
Ostinato
Upbeat
Conducting in Simple and Compound Duple Meters
Dotted Notes
Dotted Quarter Note-Eighth Note Pattern (tom-ti)
Compound Duple Meter Patterns (tah ti, tititi, and tom)
Sixteenth Notes (tika-tika)
Sixteenth-Eighth and Eighth-Sixteenth Patterns (tika-ti and ti-tika)
Dotted Half Note (tah-woh-woh)
Solfege Syllables of the Extended Major Scale (s,l,t,drmfsltd'r'm')
Improvisation with Extended Pentaton
Octave
Major with "do" as Tonal Center
Minor with "la" as Tonal Center
Modes
Tonic and Dominant of a Scale
Sharps and Flats
Absolute Note Name
Listening
Learning to Play the Recorder (grades 4 and 5)
Learning to Play the Guitar (grades 3, 4, and 5)