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Spotlight on Music, Grade 4

Spotlight on Music, Grade 4

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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, 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.
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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, 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. Course Outline Unit 1 Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts · Beat/Meter – maintain steady beat, beat through movement · Rhythm – rhythmic accuracy, eighth notes and quarter note and eighth note pairs · Melody · Harmony · Tonality – major, pentatonic · Texture – vocal septet · Form/Structure – ABA form, sections · Tone Color – higher and lower register registration, violin, sound of voice, wood block, drum, triangle, tone color · 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 · Quarter notes, eighth-note pairs, quarter rests, half notes · Do, re, mi · Pentatonic Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations · Hispanic Heritage Month · Harvest 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 – accompaniments, ostinato · Tonality – major, pentatonic · Texture · Form/Structure · Tone Color – bell set, flute, glockenspiel, trombone, brass instruments, guitar, orchestra, tone color · Dynamics – softer and louder, p, mp, mf · Tempo – steady tempo · Articulation · Style/Background – England, African American, Halloween, Spanish Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading · Sixteenth-note patterns · ABA · La Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations · Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival · Halloween Unit 3 Section 1 Spotlight on Concepts · Beat/Meter – maintain steady beat, 2/4, 4/4, 6/8 · Rhythm – quarter note, dotted quarter note, and eighth note pairs, eighth notes · 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 · 6/8 · Unequal rhythms · Fa in unison and in cannon Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations · Thanksgiving · Seasonal Songs · Hanukkah · Las Posadas · Christmas · Kwanzaa 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 · Syncopated rhythms · 6/8 · Do in unison and in cannon · Sixteenth notes Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations · Martin Luther King, Jr. Day · Valentine’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, quarter and eighth note pairs · Melody – higher and lower, same/different melodies, lower pitches · Harmony · Tonality – major, pentatonic · Texture – duet, aria, opera, tremolo · Form/Structure – repeated sections, 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 – Ghanaian, Brazilian, Bulgarian, Ugandan, Russian, Israeli, Pantomime playing, African-American, opera, German, French Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading · Dotted quarter and eighth note rhythms · Major scale · I-V harmony 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 · Melody – low, high, and higher, melodic improvisation, so-la-so-mi motive · Harmony – drum accompaniment · Tonality – major, pentatonic · Texture · Form/Structure – echo, mirroring, ABA · Tone Color – bell set, guiro, hand drum, notched rhythm sticks, instrumental tone color · Dynamics · Tempo · Articulation – smooth and detached · Style/Background – French, South American, Spanish, German, English, French Canadian, Native American Section 2 Spotlight on Music Reading · La · Syncopated rhythms · D minor Section 3 Spotlight on Performance · Partner song · Syncopation · Intervals · Clear articulation Section 4 Spotlight on Celebrations · Seasonal Songs · Laotian New Year · Earth Day

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