District 87 Music Curriculum

Concepts and Skills

Vocabulary Notation Instruments Skills

Steady beat Iconic notation Perform on Identify and use 4 voices
Fast/slow available (shout/whisper/speak/sing)
Loud/quiet classroom Perform songs
(forte/piano) instruments using internal voice
Long/Short Demonstrate a
High/Low singing voice
Kindergarten Same/different Demonstrate imitation
4 voices Identify and perform with
Audience/ o Fast/slow
performer o Loud/quiet
o Long/Short
o High/Low
o Steady beat
Pitch Quarter note Perform on Match pitch
Form Eighth note pair available Use correct instrument
First
Composer Quarter rest classroom technique
grade Rhythm instruments Clap and say rhythms using first
grade notation
Orchestra Half note Instrument Name and identify four
Band Half rest families instrument families
Choir Whole note Perform on Clap and say rhythms using 1/2
Second Staff Whole rest available notation and know correct
Conductor classroom terminology
Grade Tempo instruments Identify and perform repeat
Dynamics signs
Melody
Repeat sign
Phrase Treble clef Visually assign Clap and say rhythms using
Ostinato Sixteenth notes an instrument 1/2/3 notation and know correct
Treble clef to a family terminology
Quarter Perform on Identify note names on a treble
note/rest available staff
Third Eighth note pair classroom Visually assign an instrument to
Half note/rest instruments a family
Grade Whole note/rest Perform an ostinato
Sixteenth notes Improvise
Round Sing in a round
Improvise
1st/2nd ending

Measure Dotted half note Visually Visually identify individual

Bar line identify instruments from each of
Double bar line individual family.
Harmony instruments Clap and say rhythms using
Fourth Time signature from each of 1/2/3/4 notation and know
Crescendo family. correct terminology
Grade Decrescendo Perform on Experience harmony
Fermata available Experience crescendo and
classroom decrescendo
instruments Identify and perform fermata

Chord Dotted quarter note Review Clap and say rhythms using
Scale Single eighth note instruments in 1/2/3/4/5 notation and know
Sharp Two sixteenths and an all four correct terminology
Flat eighth families Compose
Fifth
Natural Eighth and two Perform on Review and build upon previously
Grade Major/Minor sixteenths available learned skills
Compose classroom
Syncopation instruments