Lambert, Gayle- Music / Syllabus- 1st Grade

Grapvine-Colleyville Independent School District

Grapevine Elementary School

1st Grade

1st Nine Weeks

Rhythm	Pitch	Harmony/Texture	Form/Listening	Timbre/Expression
Steady Beat	High/Low	One Sound/More than one sound	Review K concepts	4 voices (singing, speaking, whispering, yelling)
Long/Short	Sol-Mi	Light vs. Heavy		Loud/Quiet (soft)
Fast/Slow				Body Percussion
Sound/Silence
Same/Different/Pattern

2nd Nine Weeks

Rhythm	Pitch	Harmony/Texture	Form/Listening	Timbre/Expression
Quarter note/rest	Staff	Accompanied/Not Accompanied	Ostinato	Instrument Sounds (classroom perc)
Eighth notes	La	Simple Bordun	Cumulative Songs
Simple Bordun			ABA
			Intro/Coda

3rd Nine Weeks

Rhythm	Pitch	Harmony/Texture	Form/Listening	Timbre/Expression
Ostinato	Compose 4-8 beat melodic pattern	large vs. small ensemble (solo vs. group)	Aurally identify solo instruments and voices in musical selections	instrument families
Meter in 2			Identify accompanied/unaccompanied
Strong/Weak Beat			Identify one sound/more than one sound

4th Nine Weeks

Rhythm	Pitch	Harmony/Texture	Form/Listening	Timbre/Expression
Meter in 3	Compose 4-8 beat melodic	continue from previous nine weeks	Repeat sign	pitched vs. non-pitched
	pattern		Fine	(classroom instruments)

Last Modified on March 23, 2009