Music class in 4th and 5th grade is 50 minutes once a week. Each Wednesday morning our students come in one hour late while the teachers meet in what we call "Professional Learning Communities". One project Mr. Rhine has been working on is this web page and more importantly our curriculum.
If you are a teacher or a parent wanting to find out about what really goes on in music class I encourage you to click on the "Detailed Curriculum" button at the bottom of this page. Otherwise . . . scroll down this page to get a brief idea of what our Missouri Show Me Standards expect of us Music Teachers.
GOAL 1: Process and techniques for the performance of music
Here are some great links to help your singing technique!:
A to Z Singing Tips 26 tips from A to Z on singing.
Voice Training Exercises for singers including breathing and sight-singing tips.
Big Ears, An Online Ear Trainer A program to help aural recognition.
Karaoke Tools and Singing Tips More tips for singers.
Goal 2: Principles and elements of music
Rhine's Rhythms Rhine's Way of Explaining Rhythm! (You must have Flash8!)
Rhine's Flash Cards Level 1 Easy Lines and Spaces of the Treble Staff
MusicTheory.net Great site for lessons, trainers, and utilities.
Curwen Hand Signs Have you seen the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Musical Mysteries The resource helps pupils to explore basic musical concepts in sound, rhythm and mood.
Online Music Flashcards Learn to read music with these flash cards of notes.
More Flashcards Treble and bass clefs as well as key signatures.
Intervals to Practice Use famous songs. Example: Octave = Somewhere (over the rainbow).
Whole and Half Steps Explanation for the major scale.
Free Manuscript Paper Print the paper and write your own songs!
Finale Notepad Free computer program to write music and print on printer.
The Rhyme Zone Rhyming Dictionary for all those songs students create.
The Songwriting Game Writing music with chords.
Here are some links for recorders:
Recorder Fingering Chart Interactive chart
Mr. Everybody's Recorder Pages
Piano links:
Piano Songs (Rhine's song collection for classroom use.)
Play a Piano A virtual piano.
Piano Nanny A great online piano lesson site.
Piano Play Along A page with free music and sound samples of left and right hands.
Mr. Everybody's Musical Apartment Building video
Other instruments:
Rhine's Guitar Slides Flash slides for Mr. Rhine's Guitar Class.
Play the Xylophone with Clifford
GOAL 3: Vocabulary to explain perceptions about and evaluations of works in music
Making Tracks Make your own music loop in ABA form.
Music Dictionary Includes audio pronunciation and Appendix.
Music Glossary It has links to two other sites underneath the title.
Musipedia Melody Search Melody Search Engine
Music Adventure Land Many styles of music are demonstrated with audio clips.
Percussion Instruments Pronunciation, Photos, and some videos.
Instrument Tone Color Matching Game Match the music on the stands to the instruments.
JazClass Jazz Improvisation lessons using the folk song, "Scarborough Fair."
Students identify similarities and differences in the meaning of terms common to other arts disciplines. The arts include music, art, theatre, and dance. Some terms in music that can be compared with other arts include imagination, repetition, and contrast. We also talk about how music heard or sung in class makes you feel, and do the same after viewing a painting, a play, or a ballet. Students should also be able to describe ways that music is related to other subject areas such as science, history, math, or language arts.
Links:
The Science of Music Explore science through these online exhibits.
Space Station Music A surprising number of astronauts are also musicians.
Play a Synthesizer with Oscilloscope See what sound waves look like.
Radacadabra A site devoted to ballet and dancing around the world.
Kaleidoscope Painter Try your hand at being a painter.
Imagination at Work See how music and art are similar and different.
50 State Songs The official state songs of all 50 US States.
Music on the Trail The Lewis-Clark Expedition included several musical instruments.
Kennesaw Line and On An Underground Railroad Civil War Song videos.
Songs and Musical Memories of Laura Inglalls Wilder
GOAL 5 : Music in historical and cultural contexts
Students develop an understanding of the relationship of music to the historical period in which it was composed. They describe how the elements of music are used in examples from world cultures. They also discuss the uses of music in everyday life and throughout history.
Links:
On This Day In Music History Find what happened in music on any date.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Students can explore the development of rock music and the historical and technological developments that influenced its growth.
The World of Music Select a country and learn more about music of the continent.
