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, authentic sound recordings and playing the recorder. 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, texture, form, tone color, dynamics, tempo, articulation, style, and music background.

Coures Outline

Unit 1: Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter – 2/2, 4/4, 6/8, 2/4, cut time

· Rhythm – rhythmic patterns in 4/4, syncopation, Latin rhythms and Egyptian rhythms, eighth note, quarter note, half note, eighth rest, and quarter note patterns, ties, eighth notes, quarter note, and quarter rest patterns, 6/8 triplets, dotted quarter note, and dotted quarter rest patterns

· Melody – Japanese five-pitch scale, melodic contour, step, skip, leap, repeated pitch

· Harmony

· Tonality – pentatonic

· Texture – drum conversations, drum circles

· Form/Structure – ABA

· Tone Color – Taiko, resonator bells, jug band, prepared piano, Egyptian percussion, steel drums, koto

· Dynamics

· Tempo – upbeat tempo

· Articulation

· Style/Background – Caribbean, sea chantey, spiritual, Japanese folk song, jug-band, Latin, taiko

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· Do, re, mi

· Basic rhythms

· Low so, low la

· Sixteenth note rhythms

· Read and compose a pentatonic melody with high mi, re, do

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· Hispanic Heritage Month

Unit 2: Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter – 2/2, 3/4, 4/4, 2/4

· Rhythm – eighth notes, quarter rest, and quarter note patterns, sixteenth notes, quarter note, quarter rest, and half note patterns

· Melody – solfege, bass clef, intonation, intervals

· Harmony – modulation, parallel lines, consonance, dissonance, chord progression

· Tonality – diatonic scale in C major, thirds in major and minor keys

· Texture – unison singing, two-part singing, three-part singing, four-part singing, descant, canon singing

· Form/Structure – canon

· Tone Color – unison, Chinese, Czech, barbershop choral pieces, choir, timbre, mouth music, clarinet, bluegrass instruments

· Dynamics – p, f, ff, dim.

· Tempo

· Articulation – solfège, enunciation

· Style/Background – spiritual, operetta, open, barbershop, Chilean, Yiddish, miner’s song or work song, bluegrass song, music from England, Angola, France, Indonesia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, South Africa, U.S.A.

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· Conduct songs in 3/4

· Canon

· Sixteenth note rhythms

· Fa

· Ti

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· Hmong New Year

· Diwali

Unit 3: Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter – 4/4, 2/4, unmetered, cut time 3/4

· Rhythm – syncopation, body percussion, sixteenths, eighth note and dotted quarter note pairs

· Melody – dorian scale, half step, whole step, pitch fall off

· Harmony

· Tonality – major scale, F major, E-flat major, C major, G major, B-flat major, Dorian mode

· Texture - canon

· Form/Structure – rondo, round, canon, verse/refrain

· Tone Color – body percussion, renaissance instruments, drum orchestra

· Dynamics – f, ff

· Tempo

· Articulation – grace notes

· Style/Background – swing, hand-jive, stone-passing game, stick game, square dance, country line dancing, English renaissance dance, pavane, circle dance, clogging pattern, ragtime, music from Polynesia, Mexico, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Native American cultures, Israel

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· Major scale

· Canon

· Dotted quarter-eighth note rhythms

· Ostinato

· Syncopated rhythms

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· Loy Krathong

· Seasonal Songs

· Hanukkah

· Christmas

· Kwanzaa

Unit 4: Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter – 4/4, 6/8, 3/4, 2/4, cut time

· Rhythm – various rhythmic patterns in 6/8

· Melody – major melody, minor melody, dorian melody, Japanese five-pitch scale, ledger lines, G A B C D E F# G

· Harmony – chord, triad, E, Am, Em, G, D chords, descant, root, bass

· Tonality – major, minor, D dorian, D major, G major scale, C minor, A minor, C major

· Texture – two part, poem accompaniment

· Form/Structure – gigue

· Tone Color – piano, guitar, kokiriko, difference between two performances of same piece, families of instruments, harpsichord, accordion, string bass, saxophone

· Dynamics

· Tempo

· Articulation – slur

· Style/Background – composers, piano, gigue, boat song, lumber camp song, guitar, bluegrass, miners’ song, army song, movie song, opera overture, jazz, music from U.S.A., Germany, Japan, Caribbean

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· 6/8

· La pentatonic

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

· Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

· Valentine’s Day

Unit 5: Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts

· Beat/Meter – 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, 5/4 cut time

· Rhythm – syncopation, various rhythm patterns in 6/8

· Melody – countermelody, transpose

· Harmony – chord roots, primary chords, tonic, subdominant, dominant, I IV V, 16-bar blues chord progression

· Tonality – B-flat major, F major, E-flat major, C major, D major, key

· Texture - canon

· Form/Structure – AABA, 16-bar blues chord progression, ABACA, verse/refrain, coda

· Tone Color – klezmer, clarinet, Brazilian instruments, soprano, piano, orchestra

· Dynamics - fff

· Tempo

· Articulation

· Style/Background – composers, swing, musical, lullaby, klezmer, samba, opera, blues, boogie woogie, orchestral, music from Newfoundland, Uruguay, Brazil, Spain, Muscogee culture

Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading

· F-major chord roots

· Improvise syncopated rhythms

· I, IV, and V in F major

Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations

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