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What Students Need to Know and Do
RHYTHM
- Demonstrate steady beat and no beat in duple and triple music
- Accurately echo rhythmic phrases using quarter notes, eighth notes and quarter rests
MELODY
- Identify melodic phrases that move upward or downward
- Sing in the range of E-B
- Accurately echo melodic phrases matching pitch
- Read, write and match pitch using solfege notes do, mi, sol, and la
HARMONY
- Identify and perform ostinati
- Perform chordal borduns on xylophones and metallophones
TONE COLOR
- Identify and use Head voice vs. Chest Voice
- Identify solo and group performances
FORM
- Understand and use the repeat sign symbol
- Perform songs and instrumental pieces using echo
- Understand and identify patterns and phrases
EXPRESSION
- Understand and use louder and softer dynamics
- Understand and use faster and slower tempi
- Understand and use legato (smooth) and staccato (detached)
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