All students at Grafflin receive thirty minutes of vocal music instruction once a week.  As in any other discipline, music has its own tools, materials, skills and concepts which are developed with increasing understanding over time.  Our goals are for students to learn basic musical concepts, develop musical skills, have a positive attitude toward music and gain appreciation and respect for the music-making process. 

KINDERGARTEN

Steady beat
Group participation
Singing Games
Instrument Playing
Tuneful Singing

 

 FIRST GRADE 1

Quarter note and rest
Eighth notes
Singing Games
so-la-mi motives
Barred instruments
Unpitched percussion
ABA form

 SECOND GRADE

Half note and rest
Whole note and rest
do-re-mi-so-la motives
Folk dances
Instrument playing
AABA Form
 

THIRD GRADE

Dotted half-note
2/4, 3/4, 4/4 time
Folk songs and dances
Recorder notes B-A-G
Rondo Form
do-re-mi-so-la-do', low so-la
Minor modes
Speech/vocal ostinati
Instrument playing

FOURTH GRADE

Sixteenth note combinations
6/8 time
Recorder notes D-C-B-A-G-E-D
Theme and Variations
Independent musicianship
Improvisation
Full diatonic scale
Canon singing
Instrument playing
Question/Answer technique