Quarter 3-4 weeks 1-9 weeks

Introduction to composition grades 2-5th Understanding the rhythm hierarchy

Quarter notes, Half notes, eight notes, whole notes, triplets

Weeks 1-4

Rhythmic compositions with words

Objectives: Developing student’s musical language for compositional fluency by giving examples and allowing them to make educated guesses by context clues as a class.

Project: rhythmic word compositions

1. Placing music vocabulary words on the carpet and having them decided what words they like.2. Sounding out the syllables for each word like “concerto, orchestra or crescendo.

3. Using the examples writing on the board, they make a relationship to the syllable of the word to the rhythmic hierarchy

The next student proceeds to pick another

And another

Until we have a rhythm sentence

Day 2

4. Breaking into groups and creating their own sentence and perform!!

Reelections:

Students are able to listen to their own compositions and perform in ensembles in class.

Day 3

Objective: Taking existing knowledge and adding more details to create a substantial understanding of rhythms.

Project II: As a group discuss their discoveries and converse the ways music can note rhythm sounds all over the world. After this discussion we being to relate our notes to the Musial staff.

Next is using students rhythmic sentences

Writing the notes and counting out the rhythms and having the class play these rhythms on the Orff instruments !!

5. Breaking up to groups to choose notes from the musical alphabet to form a melody into the rhythmic sentence.

6. The students share there melodies and we prodcees to the final step!

Day 4

Call and response variations of the student composition as a large ensemble. This enable students to write music in a organized manor that can leads to a music theory lesson about choral harmony and early counterpoint.