1. 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.