Year-at-a-Glance

Music Listening Curriculum

2nd Grade Henry Law: Teacher

PERFORMING/CREATING RESPONDING:AMERICAN, POPULAR, RESPONDING: CONCERT

WORLD MUSIC
AUGUST  Review Sol-Mi and La  Wee Willie Winkie  Pachelbel's Canon in D
 Review 1st grade rhythm  Lucy Locket  March of the Animals
and notation
 Call and Response
 Ostinato

SEPTEMBER  Introduce Do “Hop Old Sqiurrel” song  Ravel’s Bolero

 Body Percussion  Create body percussion  Waltz of the Flowers
Accompaniment accompaniment to the song
 Speech Ostinato  Create a speech ostinato with the song
 Put all elements together
“Walk and Stop” song

OCTOBER  Introduce Re Green Gravel  Handel’s “Halleluiah Chorus”

 Rhythmic ostinato  Use this song to introduce Do and the  Rossini La Gazza Ladra
(unpitched percussion) fermata
 Fermata  Have part of the class on percussion
 Introduction and Coda and part walking to the song
 Create a percussion intro and coda to
the song
“Great Big house in New Orleans”
NOVEMBER  Introduce Pentatonic Hwi Ne Ya He- Native American Folk Song  Debussy’s “La Fille Aux
 Broken Bordun  Compose a vocal ostinato with the Cheveux De Lin (The Girl
 Vocal/ Sung ostinato melody and harmonic With The Flaxen Hair)”
 D.C. al Fine accompaniment with the bordun  Beethoven No. 9
 Learn about D.C al fine
“Rockin’ by the Baby”
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Music Listening Curriculum
2nd Grade Henry Law: Teacher

DECEMBER/  Continue Pentatonic “Jugamos En El Bosque” (We Are In The  Ravel’s “Mother Goose”
JANUARY  Speech Canon Woods)  Good morning Blues
 Question and Answer  Pentatonic
 Measure and Barline  Question and Answer game
 Create a speech cannon to play during
the game
Mary Wore Her Red Dress.
FEBRUARY  Introduction to the staff via Learn notes on the staff via instruments  Show notation for pieces that
lines and spaces (bordun) we had worked on in class
 Whole notes “Oro, My Bodeen” (Canon in D, Hallelujah, Etc.)
 Whole rests “I-Tisket, I-Tasket”  Worry, Worry, Worry
 Half Rests
 Level Bordun
MARCH  Review 1st grade concepts “Coffee Grows on White Oak Trees”- verse  Shostakovich’s “Galop”
of Expressive Elements and refrain  Stars and Stripes Forever
 Verse and Refrain “Okki Tokki Unga”- Fine
 First and Second Endings
 Fine
APRIL  Dynamics: Crescendos and “I Had A Rooster”- Folk Song  Haydn: “Surprise Symphony”
Decrescendos  In the Hall of the Mountain
 First and Second endings “Best Things” – Lucky Chops King

MAY  Timbre: Woodwind, Brass, “Jazz Police” – by Gordon Goodwin  Introduction to Symphony
String, Percussion Orchestras instrumentation
 Rondo Eastern Asian Music with unfamiliar  Pictures at an Exhibition
instruments
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Music Listening Curriculum
2nd Grade Henry Law: Teacher

Cross Curricular Connections

Math: In second grade students are still adding, subtracting and being introduced to multiplication. Through teaching notation, I will be focusing
on adding things together so the students understand that a whole rest is broken up in to 4 beats, etc.

English: The Verse and refrain can be tied to poetry in the English. The refrain can always be repeating and the verses tell the story. I can have
the students compose their own refrain and tell a story through poetry then add music to it.

History: Many of these classical pieces have strong history in the way it is composed. Many of them were written in times of great distress in the
composers home countries. I can connect these topics to what they are doing in history with some stretches.

Science: N/A