8 th grade concert choir scope and sequence. 1 st quarter

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1 8 th grade concert choir scope and sequence 1 st quarter MU STH- SCALES #18 Students will understand the concept of scale degree. HARMONY # 25. Students will sing melodies in parallel harmony. HARMONY # 32. Students will identify harmonies in repertoire as is necessary to proper understanding and performance. MU TTD- TEXTURE #48 Students will develop and demonstrate a contextual understanding of lines within texture(s) TIMBRE #51. Students will demonstrate an understanding of SATB timbre aurally and visually. #52. Students will recognize and describe the interrelationships text to timbre (i.e. changes in timbre as a result of text meaning or text sound onomatopoeia) DYNAMICS #54. Students will demonstrate awareness of dynamics in context by adjusting dynamics in instrumental and vocal ensemble settings MU MDM MELODY DURATION #11 Students will recognize and perform note values tied across the bar line and across beats METER #12. Students will recognize, understand, and perform pieces in all simple and compound meters using half-note, quarter-note, eighth note, dotted eighth

2 note unites of the beat and meter signatures including cut-time (alla breve) and common time (meter) #38 Students will understand and read octavo, and multi-lines vocal/instrumental ensemble scores, and keyboard scores notated on the grand staff MU FNA FORM #36. Students will recognize and understand the concepts of Repetition, Variation, and Contrast (same/similar/different). #37. Understanding formal procedures in Imitative Forms (canon, round, catch). NOTATION #39.Students will notate and label pitches in bass clef ARTICULATION #43. Students can perform and hear changes articulation within a measure or phrase. 8 th grade concert choir scope and sequence 2 ND quarter MU STH- SCALES - #17. Students will recognize and perform the chromatic scale beginning on various pitches TONALITY- #21. Students will perform instrumentally and/or vocally the diatonic pitches above the tonic in relation to the tonic.

3 #22. Students will demonstrate some knowledge of diatonic intervals below the tonic in relation to the tonic. HARMONY - #26. Students can recognize and construct major and minor triads #30. Students will sing or play pieces in three or more parts MU TTD- TEXTURE #47. Students will understand and describe the role of texture in musical expression. TIMBRE DYNAMICS #55. Students will understand and describe the role of dynamics in ensemble performance. MU MDM MELODY #1. Students will perform songs in 3-line texture with conjunct and disjunct lines #2. Students will recognize and perform lines in complex texture and as different linear types (bass and melody) and as discrete lines DURATION #10 Students will understand the concepts of tie and beam METER #13. Students will recognize, understand and perform changing meters with the unit of the beat remaining constant MU FNA FORM #33. Students will recognize and understand Form in performance applications.

4 #35 - Students will recognize and identify elements that determine form (key, texture, timbre, tempo, and solo/ensemble). NOTATION #42. Students will perform pieces notated in bass and treble clefs and on the grand staff ARTICULATION- #44. Students recognize the stylistically appropriate use of articulation through listening (i.e. rock, pop, classical, folk, world music). CONTINUED REINFORCEMENT OF PREVIOUS QUARTER S OBJECTIVES. 8 th grade concert choir scope and sequence 3 RD quarter MU STH- SCALES 15.Students will recognize and construct all Major scales. 16.Students will recognize, construct and notate all Major and minor scales in the three forms. TONALITY 20. Students will recognize and perform Tonic and Dominant. 23. Students will understand the concept of key signature as one indicator of minor mode.

5 HARMONY #27. Students will recognize harmonic consonance and dissonance visually and aurally. #28. Students will recognize and identify harmonic changes aurally and visually, especially changes involving the tonic, subdominant and dominant.(i, IV, V) #29. Students will recognize aurally and visually melodic patterns implying the authentic and half cadences. #31. Students will perform consonances and dissonances in stylistically appropriate manner.. MU TTD- TEXTURE #50. Students will demonstrate an understanding of combined textures (monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic, heterophonic, and antiphonal, i.e. call and response) DYNAMICS #56. Students will be able to fine-tune dynamic differences in performance settings. MU MDM MELODY #3. Students will understand lines contextually within a texture and recognize transfer of line within multi-voiced textures #4. Students will recognize perform at sight all diatonic minor, major, and perfect intervals visually and aurally descending and ascending DURATION #7. Students will recognize and perform at sight all characteristic rhythmic patterns in simple and compound meters up to the second level of subdivision including those incorporating rest

6 #8. Students will understand, notate/diagram, and perform rhythmic patterns in metrical contexts and contrary to metrical context (triplet) #14. Recognize and perform characteristic rhythmic patterns within meter syncopation. METER #9. Students will understand and perform at sight complex rhythmic patterns in complex two and three part rhythmic textures MU FNA FORM #34. Students will recognize and identify motives and themes in a formal context. NOTATION #40. Students will understand the concept of enharmonic relationships #41. Students will notate key signatures and understand their relationship to accidentals ARTICULATION #45.Students can recognize, notate, hear and perform all of the previously studied articulations. #46. Students can recognize changes of articulation in sections aurally and visually CONTINUED REINFORCEMENT OF PREVIOUS QUARTER S OBJECTIVES.

7 8 th grade concert choir scope and sequence 4 TH quarter MU STH- SCALES #19. Students will identify the scale degree(s) they are performing in an ensemble setting. TONALITY #24. Students will understand concept of circle of fifths, and modulation. HARMONY MU TTD- TEXTURE #49. Students will hear and describe pieces in all textures both instrumentally and vocally. TIMBRE - DYNAMICS #53. Students will demonstrate a performance mastery of the dynamic markings from pp through ff and <> instrumentally and vocally. MU MDM MELODY #5. Students will recognize at sight augmented and diminished intervals in melodies (A2, d5, d7) #6. Students will recognize and perform standard linear chromaticism

8 DURATION METER MU FNA FORM NOTATION ARTICULATION #45. Students can recognize, notate, hear and perform all of the previously studied articulations. #46. Students can recognize changes of articulation in sections aurally and visually. CONTINUED REINFORCEMENT OF PREVIOUS QUARTER S OBJECTIVES.

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