4th Grade Music
4th Grade music class is full of exciting performance, movement, music literacy and creative expression opportunities! Below is an outline of what we are studying this fall semester in class!
This website is currently under construction...more detail will be added soon!
4th Grade students experience 55 minutes of Music within their Special's Rotation!
​In all music classes we will experience the following threads of learning:
Movement
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Music Appreciation
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Music History
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Music Literacy
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Musical Instruments
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Improvisation
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Performance
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World Music
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Recorder
4th Grade Play
Info and practice music!!!
All Elm Grove 4th Grade students will get a chance to perform in the wonderful 4th grade production called Tales of a Fourth Grade Something! This play will include singing, dancing, acting gymnastic tricks and fun dance moves created by the students!!!
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Performance Dates/Times
Thurs., May 30, Two performances
8:30am and 1:45pm in the EGES Cafeteria​
Fri. May 31, One performance
1:45pm in the EGES Cafeteria
Costume Info
TO BE ANNOUNCED AT A LATER DATE...
After STAAR, students will get a chance to audition for specific roles,
parts or backstage options. Once those parts are decided...costume information will be updated!
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PRACTICE MUSIC BELOW:
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WORDS TO SONGS:
Click the "W" for
the lyrics to the songs!
What are we learning in the Music Room?
Music Appreciation
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Western Classical Music History- study how the development of western civilization, societal development, and technical advances have effected the development of music starting in Europe as well as world wide
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Medieval Musical Period​-
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Origins of the woodwind instruments family​
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Historical context of who first started notating music and how it has evolved into today's music notation
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Secular and Sacred music- listen, compare and contrast, learn and perform music
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Renaissance Period-
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Invention of the metal brass and origins of the brass family​
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How science and technological advances were sparked by the societal climate
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How these advances are at the root of today's music, cultures and history of music on North and South America today
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How multiple cultures can come together to create a new and unique cultures
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Hispanic Heritage Study- learn about how the traditions and cultures that were already evolved on the American continents came together with Spain, France and English cultures to create our cultures today
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EX: Dia De Los Muertos- A Catholic holiday in Spain combined with an Aztec Holiday in the region we now call Mexico. Both traditions combined to create Dia De Los Muertos​
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Listen, compare and contrast, learn and perform music as well as movement games from various European and Hispanic cultures
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Baroque Period-More detail coming soon!
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Classical Period-More detail coming soon!
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Romantic Period-More detail coming soon!
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Modern Times-More detail coming soon!
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American Music History and its connection to Blues and Jazz History
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Social Justice through the arts​
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Life Stories of Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, George and Ira Gershwin
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Music Literacy
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Learning to read notes for instruments by identifying the letter names of the the lines and spaces on the treble clef
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Learning solfeg to read notes vocally from a musical score
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Reading rhythms including quarter notes, quarter rests, eight notes, sixteenth notes, half notes, whole notes, half rests and whole rests
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Music Theory-
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Learning musical terms that describe tempo​
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Learning musical terms that describe loud/soft
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Learning musical terms for the symbols used in a musical score enabling students to read music with multiple parts effectively
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Learn how time signatures, barlines, repeat signs, coda and da capo work in a musical score​
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Recorders- We will transfer our Music Theory, performance, and sight reading skill to recorder this year through our "Recorder Karate" program!​
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Movement-
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Learn movement games and dances from across the globe
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Internalize the beat as we effectively work as a team to complete two and three part movement activities
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Connect the movement game's culture, traditions and societal development as related to the game we are playing
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Connect our music terms, structures and to the movements and use critical thinking to decipher how the music effected the choice in movement for the given traditional movement game
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