Course Syllabus
Course Name:  General Music

Teacher:  Billie Shook

School Phone#:  678-594-8048   Teacher’s Voice Mail:  252 or 466

E-mail:  Billie.Shook@cobbk12.org

Description:  General music is a nine-week course.  To support Daniell’s school goals, there will be an increased focus in reading and writing in all subject areas.

Objectives:

  1. The learner will be able to recognize basic music notation including the staff, note names, clefs, accidentals, time signatures and note values in the treble clef in the key of C.
  2. The learner will be able to perform accompaniment from simple notation using classroom melodic, harmonic, and percussive instruments.
  3. The learner will be able to distinguish between simple meters: 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.
  4. The learner will be able to recognize such musical forms as AB, ABA, AABA, theme and variation, rondo, suite, symphony, musical theatre, and string quartet.
  5. The learner will be able to demonstrate growth in knowledge of music vocabulary appropriate to the level and content of material.
  6. The learner will be able to describe the expressive effect of music in terms of its elements:  melody, rhythm, harmony, timbre, tonality, expressive and, when present, text.
  7. The learner will be able to listen critically to music in a variety of instrumental and vocal styles and origins.
  8. The learner will be able to identify musicians representing a variety of styles and periods of music.
  9. The learner will be able to use print and nonprint media to research music and musicians.
  10. The learner will be able to explore career opportunities in music.
  11. The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding of rhythmic terms such as time signature, measure, bar line, and double bar line.
  12. The learner will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the periods of music history and the evolution of musical styles from the Medieval Era to the Twentieth Century.
  13. The learner will be able to play from notation simple melodic patterns.

 

Grading:  Tests/Reading-Writing Assignments = 50%

                   Participation  = 50%

 

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