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.

Coures Outline

Unit 1

Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter - maintain steady beat, beat through movement

· Rhythm - rhythmic accuracy, quarter notes and eighth notes

· Melody

· Harmony

· Tonality - major, pentatonic

· Texture - vocal septet

· Form/Structure - ABA Form, sections

· Tone Color - higher and lower, violin, sound of voice, wood block, drum, triangle

· Dynamics - p, mp, mf

· Tempo - faster and slower, movement with tempo

· Articulation

· Style/Background - Maori, Mexican, Spirituals, Japan, New England, Christmas

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· Steady Beat

· Faster & Slower

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· Songs of Our Country

Unit 2

Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter

· Rhythm - Dotted quarter note, rhythmic clapping, word rhythms

· Melody- melodic contour, higher and lower, octave interval

· Harmony - ostinato

· Tonality - major, pentatonic

· Texture

· Form/Structure

· Tone Color - bell set, flute, glockenspiel, trombone, brass instruments, guitar, orchestra

· Dynamics - softer and louder, p, mp, mf

· Tempo - steady tempo

· Articulation

· Style/Background - England, African American, Halloween, Spanish

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· Lower and Higher

· Beat & Rhythm

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· Seasonal Songs

· Halloween

Unit 3

Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter - 2/4, 4/4, 6/8

· Rhythm - quarter and eighth note combinations

· Melody - pitch contour, middle C to G, lower to higher melody, higher to lower melody

· Harmony - tone cluster, interlude

· Tonality - major, pentatonic

· Texture - glissando

· Form/Structure - echo, ABA

· Tone Color- glockenspiel, instrumental tone color, brass choir, erhu, vocal tone color

· Dynamics

· Tempo - steady tempo

· Articulation

· Style/Background - Puerto Rican, Yoruban, African, Mexican, Renaissance, English, Waltz, Korean, Chinese, Welsh

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· Higher and Lower

· Difference in Meter

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· Thanksgiving

· Seasonal Songs

· Hanukkah

· Christmas

· Las Posadas

Unit 4

Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter - strong beat and weak beat

· Rhythm - One and two sounds to a beat

· Melody - so-mi pattern

· Harmony - drone accompaniment

· Tonality - major, pentatonic

· Texture - lip buzzing, tremolo

· Form/Structure - same/different sections

· Tone Color - vocal tone color, sand blocks, hand drums

· Dynamics - louder and softer, song/poem dynamics

· Tempo - slower to faster

· Articulation - expression

· Style/Background - Panamanian, Shiloh, South African, French, Hungarian, Argentinian, Brazilian, English

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· One and Two Sounds to a Beat

· Soft and Loud

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· Kwanzaa

· Martin Luther King Jr. Day

· Chinese New Year

· President’s Day

Unit 5

Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter - beat of silence, 2/4, 3/4, 4/4

· Rhythm - one and two sounds to a beat, beat of silence, one and two sounds to a beat

· Melody - higher and lower, same/different melodies, lower pitches

· Harmony

· Tonality - major, pentatonic

· Texture - duet, aria, opera, tremolo

· Form/Structure - repeated section, same/different sections, ABACABA, ABA

· Tone Color - shakers, cabasa, found sound, soprano saxophone, trumpet, tuba, trombone, piano, drum, symphony orchestra, sound and distance, musical

· Dynamics - louder and softer, gradually louder and softer

· Tempo - steady tempo

· Articulation - detached sounds

· Style/Background - Ghanian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Ugandan, Russian, Israeli, Pantomime playing, African-American, opera, German, French

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· High and Low minor third

· Beat of silence

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· St. Patrick’s Day

· Seasonal Songs

Unit 6

Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter - 6/8, 4/4

· Rhythm - beat of silence, one sound to a beat, two sounds to a beat, internalize rhythm, free rhythm, pat to the beat