MUSIC HIGH SCHOOL – MADRIGAL Circle of Fifths Content Vocabulary: Kodály solfege Simple meters Asymmetrical meters Triplets Duplets Dotted rhythms Accidentals Altered pitches Tonic Dominant Subdominant Diatonic major and minor Major keys Minor keys Kodály Hand Signs Modes and Modal Scales Tonic, Dominant and Subdominant Sight Reading Simple and Complex Melodies in Major Keys Simple and Complex Melodies in Minor Keys Diatomic Major and Minor Intervals Essential Understandings: Singing involves the ability to read rhythmic patterns. Kodály solfege involves hand signs. Music can be written in a variety of keys – some major and some minor. Sight-read, accurately and expressively, music with a difficulty level of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6.