Playing recorder
Performing on instruments
Singing at the beginning of class
Singing alone and with others
Writing notes on test
Notating Music
1-2nd Grades
Recorder: would not teach yet – do not have articulation yet.

Rhythm: Accent strong beats, perform simple syncopation

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Expression: Sing with dynamics/changes in tempo

Accent

2/4, 4/4 Meter

Ostinato

Tied notes

Staff, notes, sol mi la

Melody with simple harmonic accompaniment

3-4 Grades
Recorder: 3 note songs, B A G.

Singing melodies from musical notation

Sharps, flats, naturals

Ledger lines, bass clef, melodic intervals

3/4 meter, 16th notes, dotted half notes, syncopation

5-6 grades
Recorder: Teach rounds/harmonizing with different parts.

Rhythm: Asymmetrical meters, mixed meters, 16th rests

Triplets, polyrhythms, common time

Melody: Whole/half steps, major scales and key signatures in CFG, minor scales, chromatic scale, transposing

Kodaly Method – whole note
ta-ah-ah-ah
Kodaly method – dotted half note
Ta-ah-ah
Kodaly method – half note
ta-ah
Kodaly method – quarter note
ta
Kodaly method – eighth notes (2)
ti ti
Kodaly method – dotted quarter note
ta-i
Kodaly method – sixteenth notes ()
ti-ri-ti-ri

ti-ki-ti-ki

Kodaly method – triplet
tri-o-la
Cello, bass, harp, viola, violin
Strings
Bass drum, castanets, Glockenspiel, timpani
Percussion
Bassoon, clarinet, saxophone, flute
Woodwinds
Trumpet, trombone, tuba
Brass
Piano, harpsichord, organ
Keyboards
Articulation
The manner in which you play a note.

staccato, legato, fermata, accent

Dynamics
Volume.

piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte

cresendo, decresendo, diminuendo

Tempo
Fast or slow.

1. Presto
2. Allegro
3. Moderato
4. Andante
5. Addagio
6. Largo

Teaching Recorder: Pitches
B, A, G, E
Teaching Recorder: Songs
Hot Cross Buns
Orff method –
Instrumentarium – percussion.

Used familiar words for rhythm syllables (grape, grape, kiwi grape. watermelon grape pear)

Timbre
Quality of a musical note or sound.