Objective: To unify, focus, and intensify music curriculum between specialists and classroom teachers across all age levels.
Implementation: Rock and Roll Daycare specialists and teaching staff will implement a joint music theory curriculum. Each 2-month-long period will focus on one of six music theory concepts that will repeat again at the end of each twelve month cycle.
Curriculum Concepts:
RHYTHM (Sept-Oct) / FRANCE
Steady pulse
Note duration
Meter
Rhythm notation
Rhythm call and response
Rhythm in language
Rhythm in movement
Percussion instruments
Rhythm improvisation
PITCH (Nov-Dec) / ISRAEL
Matching pitches
Scales
Solfege
High vs. low
Intervals
Intro to reading pitch on the staff
Clef symbols
Melodic vs. percussion instrument
Size of instrument/range
DYNAMIC & TEMPO (Jan-Feb) / SOUTH KOREA
Gradations of dynamic (pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff)
Shifting dynamic (crescendo, decrescendo)
Accents/emphasis
Shifting dynamic marks (sforzando, fortepiano/pianoforte, accelerando)
MELODY & HARMONY (Mar-Apr) / JAMAICA
Singing sections of scales
Tetrachord singing
Melodic improvisation
Identifying common melodies w/different lyrics (Twinkle/Baa Baa Black Sheep/ABC)
Assonance / dissonance
Interval singing & analysis
Major vs. minor
TIMBRE & ORCHESTRATION (May-June) / CAMBODIA
Discriminating qualities of sound
Identifying sounds of instruments
Hearing same notes/melodies played by different instruments
Discriminating and identifying instruments in an ensemble
