IHMCS Curriculum Overview

Link to Music by Grades Kindergarten Grade One Grade Two Grade Three Grade Four Grade Five Grade Six Grade Seven Grade Eight

Music

Kindergarten (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Steady beat
• Difference between fast and slow
• Meter
• Dynamics
• Basic staff elements
• Rhythmic notation
• Rhythmic patterns
• Singing games
• Basic instruments

Grade 1 (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Opposites in articulation
• Rhythmic qualities of music
• Dynamics, treble staff elements
• Simple rhythmic patterns
• Singing games
• Music expressive of individuality
• Basic instruments
• Imaginative qualities of music
• Simple melodies

Grade 2 (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Good breathing habits
• Rhythms with a steady beat
• High and low pitch
• Ostinato
• Melodies expressive of legato and staccato
• Sight-singing
• Musical concepts
• Gradually changing dynamics
• Simple note values
• Kodaly hand motions

Grade 3 (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Good breathing habits
• Ascending and descending melodies
• Melodic phrases
• Musical concepts
• Simple rhythmic notation
• Orchestral instruments
• Instrumental tone colors
• Major scale using Kodaly
• Musical math
• Multicultural music

Grade 4 (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Correct breathing
• Tone quality
• Simple rounds and partner songs
• Complex dynamics
• Themes and variation
• Key signatures
• Meter signature
• Original compositions using the pentatonic scale
• Rhythmic patterns
• Recorder
• Multicultural music

Grade 5 (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Good posture
• Correct breathing
• Tone quality
• Canons and two-part countermelody harmonies
• Steps and half steps, either vocally or on instruments
• Syncopation
• Complex musical concepts
• Dotted note values
• Musical mathematics and note equivalencies
• Accidentals to steps and half steps
• Sight-singing
• Musical instrument families
• Multicultural music

Grade 6 (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Good posture
• Correct breathing
• Tone color
• Multiple dynamics of music
• Musical symbols, inclusive of both staves
• Various compositional forms
• Meter signatures
• Songs in different languages
• Musical textures such as polyphony on instruments
• Sing polyphonic harmonies
• Multicultural perspectives
• Original musical compositions

Grade 7 (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Good breathing
• Tone
• Two-part harmony
• Intervalic relationships
• Major and minor keys
• Musical concepts
• Rhythmic patterns and math equivalencies
• American musical theater
• American musical styles of the 20th century
• Classical composers
• Research skills
• Cantoring

Grade 8 (MUSIC)

• Tune
• Good posture
• Correct breathing
• Tone
• Rhythmic patterns
• American musical styles of the 20th Century
• Styles of classic historical eras
• Historical composers
• Musical elements
• American musical theater
• Multicultural music and history as it pertains to styles
• Social influences of music
• Cantoring