Music

Preschool

• Creative movement
• Rhythm
• Recall
• Practice using a singing voice
• Introducing musical instruments
• Experimenting with sound
• Listening
• Creating
• Winter program
• Mommy and Me Tea program
• End of year program

Prekindergarten

• Creative movement
• Rhythm
• Recall
• Practice using a singing voice
• Introducing musical instruments
• Experimenting with sound
• Listening
• Creating
• Winter program
• Mommy and Me Tea program
• End of year program 

Kindergarten

• Voice explorations
• Steady beats
• Simple songs and games
• Left and right concepts
• Call and response songs
• Echo songs
• Winter songs 

Grade 1

• Voice exploration
• Steady beat
• Simple songs and games
• Instrument timbres
• Rhythm games
• Circle dances
• Great composers: Bach; Haydn; Mozart; Beethoven; Schumann; Prokofiev; Dukas

Grade 2 

• Correct singing techniques
• Solfege
• Bizet’s Carmen Suite
• Simple folk songs
• Game songs
• Harmony
• Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite
• Notes on staff
• Classic Kids Magic Flute, by Mozart

Grade 3

• Classic Kids Ring of Mystery, by Vivaldi (through December)
• Folk songs; game songs; rounds
• Selected choral pieces
• Develop singing; reading from the staff: d’lsmrd patterns
• Melodic ostinati, singing rounds and echo and partner songs, Thanksgiving piece
• Preparation for Symphony Hall Concert
• Carnival of the Animals, by St. Saens

Grade 4 

• Listening and singing skills
• Baroque music, while listening to Classic Kids Hallelujah, by Handel
• Songs from American history to support Social Studies curriculum
• Solfege
• Melodic ostinati
• Two-part harmony
• Decoding musical markings
• Tempo
• Pictures at an Exhibition, by Mussorgsky
• American folk dancing

Grade 5

• International folk songs and rounds
• Select choral pieces
• Pachabel’s Canon in D
• Benjamin Britten’s Guide to the Orchestra
• Winter concert choral piece
• Learning to play tone chimes
• Orff music of different styles
• Vaughan-Williams (four selections)
• Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
• Dances and games from around the world

Grade 6

• Multicultural songs and dances
• Music styles bingo
• Selections from four musical periods, using movement to illustrate form
• Beethoven's 5th Symphony
• Learning to play the recorder
• Ensembles using recorders and Orff instruments
• Zimbabwean style music for Orff instruments

Grade 7

• Introduction to classical guitar
• Learning to accompany for the winter program piece
• Hands on training all year; first position
• Learning chords to accompany many songs

Grade 8

• World music drumming curriculum
• Listen and learn various drum styles and techniques, from Africa to the Caribbean
• Create new drum ensembles, learning to listen to the ensemble