Music Mrs. Engle Grades Pre-K through 7 All music students at CTL have the opportunity to perform in music programs in addition to attending music class during the school day. CTL students recently presented the holiday music program The Best Gift. Music students at CTL learn new music concepts in a childdevelopmental sequence. Each new concept is experienced through physical, aural and visual activities. The Pre-K music class involves vocal exploration, partner activities and recognition of patterns. Kindergarten students continue to work on comparatives. They are currently experiencing the High/Low comparative and will be combining it with Fast/Slow and Loud/Soft comparatives. High/low is the comparative that prepares them to read music. Grades 1-2 students are learning to read solfa (do re mi.... major scale) from the music staff. Their first interval is so-mi. They continue to study rhythm patterns and learn about music in 2/4 meter and 4/4 meter. Grades 3-4 students have learned re in a mi-re-do solfa pattern. They will be combining this pattern with the known so and la notes in order to study the Do Pentatonic Scale. They are also studying 16th notes in 4/4 meter. Reading music from the staff as they play, grades 5-7 students are continuing to learn to play the piano/keyboards. They have learned to play short excerpts from classical composers: Beethoven's Ode to Joy and the beginning of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. The students have also watched a video about Handel and will be watching another on Beethoven as well as other classical composers during the coming weeks. They will also be working on an upcoming performance. 18
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