Rhythm and Meter Fundamentals

Learners will compare exemplary performances using technology and examine music from diverse genres, styles, periods, and cultures.

Learners will read, count, and perform rhythmic patterns using standard notation in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meter.

Learners will identify and describe tonal elements including intervals, solfège, absolute note names, instrumentation, and voicing using standard terminology.

Learners will identify and interpret binary, ternary, phrasic, rondo, and theme and variations forms presented aurally and through notation.

Learners will describe and apply health and wellness concepts related to musical practice including body mechanics, hearing protection, vocal health, hydration, and hygiene.

Learners will interpret and perform music symbols and terms for notation, dynamics, tempi, and articulations including fermata, coda, pianissimo to fortissimo, andante, adagio, accent, and marcato.

Learners will notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics using standard symbols and create increasingly complex rhythmic and melodic phrases.

Learners will read music notation using cognitive and kinesthetic responses and sight-read unison, homophonic, and polyphonic music in multiple keys and meters.

Learners will demonstrate characteristic vocal and instrumental timbre, perform with appropriate physical techniques, and perform with accurate intonation and rhythm alone and in groups.

Learners will perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse styles, cultures, and American and Texas heritage.