Download Grade 6 Music Year Outline

Grade 6 Music Year Outline
Canadian Coalition for Music Education
1. Singing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music
2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines.
5. Reading and notating music.
6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.
7. Evaluating music and music performances.
8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture.
September Focus
● Read/Sing songs using note names, numbers, and solfege
● D scale Round
● Partner song
● C scale Song with descant
● Introduce Ukulele Basic Chords
● syncopated, dotted rhythm patterns, 1st and 2nd endings
Musicplay Songs
● Barges
● Why Shouldn’t
● Rufus Rustus
● Mango Walk
● Now We’ll Make
● Song For Mira
October Focus
● C Scale Read
● Seasonal song expressing gratitude and thanks
● Singing game and creative movement
● Accompany Song with Ukulele and percussion
● Play song on Recorders
● continue syncopated and dotted patterns
● Practice and assess rhythm dictation
● Introduce entry song for Christmas Concert
Musicplay Songs
● Fish and Chips (One Bottle of Pop)
● Dollar
● Dry Bones
● Scarborough Fair
● Oh My Darling
November Focus
● Learn feature song and finale for Christmas Concert with
choreography
● Read a 3/4 round in F using note names/numbers/ and solfege
● Accompany a G song with Uke and percussion
December Focus
● Polish Christmas songs and choreography
● accompany song with uke and percussion
● 12 bar blues
Musicplay Songs
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Music Vocabulary: Tempo and dynamic terms, verse -chorus,
legato, theme and variations
● Conductor signals, choir skills
Musicplay Songs
● Dona Nobis Pacem
● La Bamba
● Hagdalena
● Wild Mountain Thyme
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Angels
Who Did
Christmas at the Hop
January Focus
● Playing Recorders
● Boomwhackers
● Play ensemble pieces for mallet percussion, recorder in 2
parts, and ukulele chord progressions I-IV-V
● Composition with 2 boomwhacker songs
● F song Round in 3/4 Time
● continue practice on dotted rhythms
● Begin composer individual research project
Musicplay Songs
● COFFEE
● Here’s a Song That’s Really Neat
● It’s a Whacky Kind of Sound
● De Colores
● Hockey Song
● A Great Big Sea
February Focus
● Read/sing the full F Scale using note names/numbers/solfege
● Continue playing ensemble pieces for recorders, ukulele and
percussion
● songs in 6/8 Time
● 3 part Choral
● Clapping Game
● composer individual research due
Musicplay Songs
● Oh My Love
● Tell My Ma
● A Wuni Kuni
● Hymn to Freedom
● Wai Bamba
● Wade in The Water
● John B Sails
● Arapusu
March Focus
● Music Styles- Big Band, Country, Folk, Spirituals, Gospel
● 4 part round
● Expression
● Ukulele I - V chord accompaniment
April Focus
● Stomp small group performances
● Drum circle full ensemble
● Song Stories
Musicplay Songs
● Black socks
● Gypsy Rover
● Found a Peanut
● Tumbalalaika
● A Ram Sam
Musicplay Songs
● She Waded in the Water
● Corner Grocery Store
● Rap Accompaniments
● Blues Accompaniments
May Focus
● Modern Song Critiques
● Rhythms Around the World
Musicplay Songs
● Sippin’ Milkshakes
● Take Time in Life
● Siyahamba
● Brazilian, Cuban, Trinidad
● Nova Scotia Song
Songs
● Light of the World
● Pharaoh, Pharaoh
● Romans 16:19 Says
● All in All
June Focus
● Musicals : The Music Man, Sound of Music
● Opera and Symphonies
Songs
● O Canada on Recorder for Assembly?