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Explore and build foundational musical skills with Spotlight on Music from McGraw-Hill. This course offers a variety of learning activities that include singing, dancing, virtual instruments, listening maps, and authentic sound recordings. Six units in the course are organized into four sections: Spotlight on Concepts, Spotlight on Music Reading, Spotlight on Performance, and Spotlight on Celebrations. Students learn about these musical elements: duration, pitch, design, tone color, expressive qualities and cultural context. Students explore beat, meter, rhythm, melody, harmony, tonality, vocal/instrumental tone color, texture, dynamics, tempo, articulation, style, and music background.
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Unit 1
Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts
· Beat/Meter
· Rhythm – rhythm of the words, quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter rest
· Melody – melodic movement, mi, re, and do
· Harmony
· Tonality – pentatonic
· Texture – combine instrumental sounds
· Form/Structure – verse/refrain
· Tone Color – vocal tone color, instrumental tone color
· Dynamics – f, p
· Tempo – steady tempo
· Articulation - accents
· Style/Background – swing, Singaporean, Newfoundland, Louisiana, Hungarian, Andean, South African
Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading
· Mi, re, do
· Quarter notes, quarter rests, eighth note pairs
· Steps, skips, repeated notes
Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations
· Hispanic Heritage Month
Unit 2
· Beat/Meter – 2/4, 4/4
· Rhythm – quarter notes and eighth notes, half note
· Melody – so and la
· Harmony - countermelody
· Tonality - pentatonic
· Texture – “found sounds”
· Form/Structure – ABA, ABC, AABA
· Tone Color – vocal tone color
· Dynamics – p, f, pp, ff, crescendo, decrescendo
· Tempo – tempo changes
· Articulation
· Style/Background – Mexican, Native American, African American, Nigerian, Japanese, Israeli
· Quarter notes, eighth note pairs
· Do, re, mi, so
· Do, re, mi, so, la
· Sukkot
· Halloween
Unit 3
· Beat/Meter – 2/4, 6/8
· Rhythm – quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, quarter and eighth note pairs
· Melody – low la and low so
· Harmony - instrumental harmony
· Texture – instrumental ensemble
· Form/Structure – verse, refrain, phrases
· Tone Color - violin
· Dynamics
· Tempo - rubato
· Style/Background – Ghanaian, African American
· Low la
· Low so in unison and in cannon
· Conduct in 2/4
· Thanksgiving
· Seasonal Songs
· Hanukkah
· Christmas
· Las Posadas
· Kwanzaa
Unit 4
· Beat/Meter - 2/2
· Rhythm – sixteenth notes
· Melody – high do, skips, leaps, steps
· Harmony - melodic accompaniment, ostinato, canon, round
· Texture – percussion ensemble
· Form/Structure – identical and similar phrases, A and B sections, rondo
· Tone Color – erhu, banjo
· Style/Background – Caribbean, French Canadian, Israeli, Norwegian, Chinese
· Sixteenth notes
· High do
· Martin Luther King Jr. Day
· Chinese New Year
· Valentine’s Day
· President’s Day
Unit 5
· Beat/Meter – 3/4, downbeat, upbeat
· Rhythm – dotted half note, whole note, whole rest, eighth notes, sixteenth notes
· Melody – G, A, and B
· Harmony – chordal accompaniment, rhythmic accompaniment
· Tonality – minor/major
· Texture - chords
· Form/Structure – introduction, coda, verse, and refrain
· Tone Color - cello
· Tempo – varying tempo
· Articulation – staccato, legato
· Style/Background – eighteenth century minuet
· 6/8 with upbeats
· Whole note
· Ostinato with whole note
· Dotted half and whole notes in 4/4 meter
· Ostinato with an upbeat
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