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Music Year Curriculum

The document outlines a year-long 4th grade music listening curriculum organized by month. It includes sections on performing/creating music, and responding to American, popular, world, and classical music. Some highlights include learning about fa and ti notes in August, identifying major and minor themes in September, composing using pentatonic scales in October, exploring jazz, hip hop, and folk music from various cultures throughout the year, and connecting the material to other subject areas like social studies, language arts, health/PE, and math. The curriculum aims to provide students with a well-rounded introduction to different musical genres and traditions from around the world.

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Music Year Curriculum

The document outlines a year-long 4th grade music listening curriculum organized by month. It includes sections on performing/creating music, and responding to American, popular, world, and classical music. Some highlights include learning about fa and ti notes in August, identifying major and minor themes in September, composing using pentatonic scales in October, exploring jazz, hip hop, and folk music from various cultures throughout the year, and connecting the material to other subject areas like social studies, language arts, health/PE, and math. The curriculum aims to provide students with a well-rounded introduction to different musical genres and traditions from around the world.

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Year-at-a-Glance

Music Listening Curriculum


4th Grade Garrett Prall

PERFORMING/CREATING RESPONDING:AMERICAN, POPULAR, RESPONDING: CLASSICAL MUSIC


WORLD MUSIC
AUGUST Fa and Ti Popular: “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Mozart – Eine Kleine
Meter in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 Music Nachtmusic
North American Folk Song: Arkansas Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the
Traveler Flowers
SEPTEMBER Identify Major and Minor Caribbean: Medley of Old Calypso by Brahms - Variations on a theme
Theme and Variations The Mighty Zebra by Robert Schuman
Dotted quarter and eighth rhythm Music of Hawai’i: Show video of E Chopin – Funeral March
Pele, Pele, Pele
OCTOBER La Pentatonic Music of Korea: Kang-Kang-Soo-Wol- Debussy – Pagodes
Composing using La Pentatonic Nae Saint-Saens – The Swan
Plastique anime to Con Voi Music of Vietnam: Con Voi (The
Elephant)
NOVEMBER 2-4 Part Melodic Rounds Jazz: Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk Pachelbel - Canon in D
Improvisation (Including lesson with This Jazz Man) Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the
Sixteenth notes Popular/Hip-Hop: Stereo Hearts by Bumblebee
Gym Class Heroes
DECEMBER/ Read Notes on Treble Staff Music of Panama: Camu Burwi – Flute Beethoven – Symphony No. 5
JANUARY (GABCDEFG) Music Rossini – William Tell Overture
Locate Key Signature Music of Paraguay: Guantanamera
by Los Tres Paraguayos

FEBRUARY Partner Songs Music of Gambia: Tama Jung Jung John Williams – Jurassic Park
Exposure to Bass Clef Music of Madagascar: Kaka misy John Williams – Indiana Jones
Double 16th, single 8th rhythm and ampondy (A horned beast)
single 8th, double 16th
MARCH Dance Elements American Folk Dance: Alabama Gal Tchaikovsky – Overture to the
Choreography Bluegrass: Bluegrass Breakdown by Nutcracker
Eighth, quarter, eighth rhythm David and Billy Ray Johnson Paul Dukas – The Sorcerer’s
Apprentice
Year-at-a-Glance
Music Listening Curriculum
4th Grade Garrett Prall

APRIL Changing Meter Music of Ireland: Mo Ghille Mear by UCD Maslanka – Mother Earth
Descant Choral Scholars Christopher Tin – Baba Yetu
Music of Iceland: Hunting Song by The
Icelandic Singers
MAY Sing and Double Moving Bordun Music of India: Unnaippol Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre
Kurdish Music of Iran: Dupeyi Beethoven – Symphony No. 7

For at least 3 out of the 5 categories below, provide a description (at least 3-5 sentences) including the month, the repertoire, and the connections
you will provide to the curriculum.

Science:

Social studies:
I believe that in general, sections where the class learns about world culture’s will satisfy social studies connections. These take place in the
Months of September, October, December/January, February, April, and May. Additionally, our class will cover American folk music in August
and March. During this time, we will discuss what life was like for individuals who sang these songs. This section will satisfy Olathe’s social
study unit of American settlers on the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails.

Language Arts (Reading, Writing, Speaking, Research):


In November, our class is doing a unit on jazz. To pair with this lesson, we will be doing an activity from the book This Jazz Man. While
following along with the book, the class will be reading the text and speaking it out loud. This satisfies the Olathe School District’s standard
RF.4.4. a) “Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.”

Health/P.E.:
This connection takes place in March during our unit on American Folk Dances. The dance to Alabama Gal requires students to do a decent
amount of moving as they move from the front of the line and through the tunnel. Relating to curriculum, this activity fits in Standard 4 of the
Olathe School District: “Participates in moderate to vigorous levels of physical activity that develop each component of physical fitness.”
Year-at-a-Glance
Music Listening Curriculum
4th Grade Garrett Prall

Math:

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