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3rd-5th Grade Music at Muscota! "2012-2013 School Year: Many Voices, One Chorus" 3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders will be taking their musical knowledge to a critically in depth level this year as they focus on the importance of community within music. Students will delve into the role a chorus line plays in the composition of a song, how a group of singers must work together to create one sound, and how a chorus can determine the motif of a song, or of a story. In addition to self-assessing at the end of each lesson, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade musical scholars will also participate in performance tasks at the end of each unit of study. These performance tasks will be assessed using rubrics aligned to the National Arts Standards, as well as any applicable grade level Common Core Standards.

Throughout units, student work products will be posted as frequently as possible, and whenever applicable, links to the music we are working on will be available. Some of the best ways to learn music are to listen to recordings over, and over, and over again! Here's hoping parents like the songs too! :) =Unit 1: Choral Patterns =

In the Unit, “Choral Patterns,” students will be studying how the chorus line can create a pattern with the melody line to determine the expression of the song, “I Believe in Love.” Students will discover how when working together and making many voices act as one chorus line, they can create harmonies and syncopated rhythms with the melody line, which ultimately defines the expression. Students will also learn to reference the musical text, as in the noted music, to find evidence of the harmonies and rhythms.

Unit 1 Vocabulary:


 * Syncopated Rhythm
 * Melody Line and Chorus Line
 * Expression
 * Musical Text and Citing Evidence
 * Harmony


 * Choral Patterns Song of Study: "I Believe in Love" **

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As you're watching and listening with active eyes and active ears, ask your children to think with an active mind and tell you about: 1. Where the expression in the piece changes 2. HOW they know that the expression changes (what does it look like, sound like, and what does it look like in the musical text?) 3. What is the special rhythm called that happens when the chorus line joins the melody line? Why is that type of rhythm so exciting?



=Additional Music at Muscota Links: =

National Standards for Music Education Each standard (1-9) are listed to the right side in more detail, as provided by the Kennedy Center ArtsEdge, via the National Association for Music Educators website

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