Lambert, Gayle- Music / Syllabus- 2nd Grade

Grapvine-Colleyville Independent School District

Grapevine Elementary School

2nd Grade

1st Nine Weeks

Rhythm	Pitch	Harmony/Texture	Form/Listening	Timbre/Expression
Review	Do	Simple Bordun/Ostinato	Review 1st concepts	Pitched/non-pitched
Steady Beat	Treble Clef			Dynamics (p/f)
Beat vs. Rhythm
Quarters, eighths, quarter rest
Half Notes

2nd Nine Weeks

Rhythm	Pitch	Harmony/Texture	Form/Listening	Timbre/Expression
Ties	Re	Various Cultural Music	AABA	Instrument Families (strings)
Equal/Unequal Sounds	Repeats, Repeated Melodies	Broken Bordun	AABB	<>
Simple Bordun on beat		Solo vs. Ensemble	Piano/Forte

3rd Nine Weeks

Rhythm	Pitch	Harmony/Texture	Form/Listening	Timbre/Expression
Review Meter in 2 & 3	Compose 4-8 beat melodic patterns	duet/trio	Rondo/ABACA	Instrument Families
Meter in 4		canons/rounds	crescendo/decrescendo	(Brass)
Whole note/rest. Half rest
Write simple rhythm notation in 4-8 beat patterns

4th Nine Weeks

Rhythm	Pitch	Harmony/Texture	Form/Listening	Timbre/Expression
Continue from previous 9 weeks	Compose 4-8 beat	continue from	accelerando	Instrument Families
	melodic patterns	previous nine	ritardando	(Woodwinds)
		weeks

Last Modified on March 23, 2009