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LAMS MUSIC

Grade 5 curriculum

Unit 1: Why Create Music?
Essential Questions   
  • Why do people create music?
  • How do musicians use inspiration to create music?
  • How does the inspiration affect the music?
Enduring Understandings
  • Music is the organization of sound and silence
  • People create and perform music for various social, cultural, historical, and emotional reasons.
  • Inspiration is what stirs people to write music.
Objective:
  • Use the 8 musical elements to create a theme and variations, each variation with a different musical inspiration
Skills associated with objective:
  • Identify how composers use musical elements to honor their inspiration
  • Use and manipulate Musical Elements: pitch, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, tempo, form, timbre, mood
  • Review: notes on the staff, rhythms
  • Arrange: change tunes to feel differently
Unit 2: Musical Ownership
  • How can I feel ownership over the music I make and create?
  • As an ensemble, how can we all feel like an important part of the puzzle?
Enduring Understandings:
  • Using your own life experiences to relate to a song or piece of music makes the song more meaningful to you, the performer, as well as your audience.
  • Every person’s voice counts in a musical ensemble; it is important not only to communicate your own but also listen to others' voices.
Objective:
  • Composition project: using different templates, 5th graders will compose their own music based on who inspires them the most
Skills associated with objective:
  • Composition using the 8 musical elements
  • Connecting inspiration to music
  • Using standard notation and/or graphic notation to write down your musical ideas
By the End of Grade 5:
  • Students will understand that music can communicate and invoke personal and group feelings that goes beyond other forms of communication
  • Students will have an idea of how they can interact musically with the world.
Last Updated: August 2020