Kindergarten Music Curriculum
Here is a highlight of the many skills that music teachers try and foster in a Kindergarten music class. They are defined for the purpose of understanding their importance in the life of a student. Studies have proven that the music fosters and helps develop a child’s ability to distinguish sounds. Pre-reading skills are developed through listening and speaking.
Steady beat is the most fundamental concept in music. It’s the ongoing, steady, repetitive pulse that occurs in songs, chants, rhymes, and music. It’s the part that makes you want to tap your toes, clap your hands, or jump up and dance.
Rhythm patterns are repeated rhythms establishing the meter and groove through the pulse and subdivision, played on drums or other percussion instruments. Many rhythmic patterns define or characterize a music genre.
Ostinato [ostiˈnaːto] is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, sometimes at the same pitch. The repeating idea may be a rhythmic pattern, part of a tune, or a complete melody in itself.
Solfège: Syllables of a musical scale or melody. Sometimes they are used in a singing exercise, or practicing sight-reading vocal music. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do.
Use of the 4 Voices: Most children begin to learn how to speak, whisper, sing, and use an outdoor voice. These skills are developed and practiced at this level.
For small group lessons or ways to work with your child, see the following resources.
https://www.kindermusik.com/