{"id":75,"date":"2016-11-28T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2019-09-03T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T17:11:58","slug":"kindergarten-music-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/kindergarten-music-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten Music Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is a highlight of the many skills that music teachers try and foster in a Kindergarten music class.<\/strong>\u00a0 They are defined for the purpose of understanding their importance in the life of a student.\u00a0 Studies have proven that the music fosters and helps develop a child&#8217;s ability to distinguish sounds.\u00a0 Pre-reading skills are developed through listening and speaking.<\/p>\n<p><b>Steady beat<\/b>\u00a0is the most fundamental concept in music. It&#8217;s the ongoing,\u00a0<b>steady<\/b>, repetitive pulse that occurs in songs, chants, rhymes, and music. It&#8217;s the part that makes you want to tap your toes, clap your hands, or jump up and dance.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rhythm<\/b>\u00a0<b>patterns<\/b> are repeated rhythms establishing the meter and groove through the pulse and subdivision, played on drums or other percussion instruments.\u00a0 Many rhythmic patterns define or characterize a music genre.<\/p>\n<p>O<b>stinato<\/b>\u00a0[osti\u02c8na\u02d0to] is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same\u00a0musical\u00a0voice, sometimes at the same pitch. The repeating idea may be a rhythmic pattern, part of a tune, or a complete melody in itself.<\/p>\n<p><b>Solf\u00e8ge:\u00a0 S<\/b>yllables of a musical scale or melody.\u00a0 Sometimes they are used in a singing exercise, or practicing sight-reading vocal music.\u00a0 Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use of the 4 Voices:<\/strong>\u00a0 Most children begin to learn how to speak, whisper, sing, and use an outdoor voice.\u00a0 These skills are developed and practiced at this level.<\/p>\n<p>For small group lessons or ways to work with your child, see the following resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>https:\/\/www.kindermusik.com\/\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dance and Movement Songs | 24 Minutes of Music Videos by Laurie Berkner | Best Preschool Music\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3JJcmtJ98mA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a highlight of the many skills that music teachers try and foster in a Kindergarten music class.\u00a0 They are defined for the purpose of understanding their importance in the life of a student.\u00a0 Studies have proven that the music fosters and helps develop a child&#8217;s ability to distinguish sounds.\u00a0 Pre-reading skills are developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-75","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/musicnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}