1. Welcome to Music! Third Grade Fourth Grade KATE HAYASHI
GENERAL MUSIC & CHORUS
M.L. BURBANK ELEMENTARY
Third Grade
Fourth Grade

2. Third and Fourth Grade Goals
Students will be able to:
Build music literacy skills through Dr. Feierabend’s Conversational Solfege Curriculum.
Develop improvisational skills through Dr. Azarra’s Developing Musicianship Through Improvisation Curriculum.
Exercise healthy vocal technique using Dr. Phillips’, Teaching Kids to Sing Curriculum.

3. Conversational Solfege
THE BRIDGE BETWEEN:
ROTE LEARNING
AND
MUSIC LITERACY

4. Conversational Solfege
Music is an aural art:
Learn with your ears before your eyes
Music learning based on language learning
Music conversation skills => Reading and Writing Skills
Based on traditional folksongs and rhymes
Reflects natural melodic and rhythmic inflection
Literature-driven curriculum
Focuses on 2/4 and 6/8 meters
Tone set focus begins with do, re, mi
Identify and label rhythms in duple and triple using
Rhythm syllables (du_, du-de, du-da-di)
Tonal syllables (do, re, me, etc)
Rhythm symbols (♩, ♫)
Tonal symbols (♩, ♫ symbols on a staff)

5. Developing Musicianship Through Improvisation
THE BRIDGE BETWEEN:
ROTE LEARNING
AND
HARMONIC DEVELOPMENT

6. which is at the core of the music learning process.
Just as it is possible for everyone to learn a language and engage in meaningful conversation,
it is also possible for everyone to engage in meaningful improvisation,
which is at the core of the music learning process.
~Dr. Christopher Azarra~

7. Developing Musicianship Through Improvisation
Improvisation is the spontaneous expression of meaningful musical ideas.
Key elements: personalization, spontaneity, anticipation, anticipation, prediction, interaction, and being in the moment.
We are born improvisers.
It is an expression from an internal source.
Learning to improvise is like learning a language.
Steps to improvise: listening, immersion, imitation, association, speaking, improvisation, reading, writing.
Engage in meaningful conversational improvisation
Internalize melodies and bass lines => hear harmonic progressions

8. THE BRIDGE BETWEEN: ROTE LEARNING AND VOCAL PEDAGOGY
Teaching Kids to Sing
THE BRIDGE BETWEEN:
ROTE LEARNING
AND
VOCAL PEDAGOGY

9. Expression through song is uniquely human and binds humanity together as a people and as a world of cultures.
~Dr. Kenneth Phillips~

10. Teaching Kids to Sing Systematic Vocal Instruction
Singing is a learned behavior.
We build endurance.
We use healthy vocal technique for vocal protection.
Why Sing? Because singing:
Enhances the quality of life.
Is a basic and powerful form of communication.
Grows community: it builds a connection and cultural identity.
Celebrates and commemorates life.
In groups promotes cooperative learning.
Helps understand each other’s ethnic, cultural, or national backgrounds.
Develops the aesthetic response.

11. 3rd and 4th Grade Chorus WEDNESDAYS 4TH GRADE: 9:00-9:40AM
3RD GRADE: 9:45-10:30AM
KATE HAYASHI
VICKIE LIVERMORE

12. If healthy vocal production is taught, music is selected that accommodates range needs, and musical concepts and skills are taught so students can make decisions about their own performance, then a stunningly beautiful choral performance can be the result.
~Judy Bowers~

13. Third and Fourth Grade Choral Goals
Students will be able to:
Exercise healthy vocal technique using Phillips’, Teaching Kids to Sing Curriculum.
Sing varied choral repertoire.
Connect music literacy from general music to the choral rehearsal.
Sing in unison and with part-singing.
Develop and practice a working music vocabulary.

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