My Music Journal Music Teaching Method for Sixth Grade

Our music curriculum for elementary and middle school students complies with state and national standards. The music textbook for Sixth Grade is both a teacher and student edition. Both the teacher and the student use the same textbook.Students gradually learn about rhythm, melody, tempo, tone color, dynamics, forms, harmony, texture, and style in each music textbook of My Music Journal series K-8. In addition, students learn about music composers, music of other countries, orchestra...
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Our music curriculum for elementary and middle school students complies with state and national standards. The music textbook for Sixth Grade is both a teacher and student edition. Both the teacher and the student use the same textbook.Students gradually learn about rhythm, melody, tempo, tone color, dynamics, forms, harmony, texture, and style in each music textbook of My Music Journal series K-8. In addition, students learn about music composers, music of other countries, orchestra instruments, sight-sing solfege, compose short melodies and rhythms, write music notation. Each textbook begins with a review of the previous years musical concepts to bring students up to speed.Check out the Table of Contents. Each musical concept, such as Rhythm, Melody, Tone Color, Tempo, Dynamics, Forms, e.t.c, has a set number of lessons. There are 36 lessons, which correlate to the 36 weeks of a school year.The installment in the My Music Journal, designed for Sixth Grade students, will expand on the material learned in all previous textbooks to continue the students' musical education throughout grade six. The material in this textbook will continue to teach new material based on the students' previous music education up to that point, providing a solid foundation of knowledge to prepare middle school students for the next phases of their music education and achievements. Students will develop knowledge and skills related to the elements of music, the principles of performance, the connection of music to history and culture, and music's many interdisciplinary connections.Students will expand upon their previously learned knowledge of time signatures, meters, and mixed meters in this textbook. Students will continue to study triplets, tied notes, dotted rhythms, and syncopation. Students will learn to recognize diatonic intervals when reading music and identify notes written on the treble staff and the bass staff. Students will learn to recognize the repeated tones, leaps, and steps in a listening selection and a score. Students will continue to learn to perform a musical selection, solo or with a group, in the appropriate tempo markings like andante, moderato, allegro, presto, ritardando, and accelerando.