My Music Journal Music Teaching Method For Fifth Grade

The music textbook for Fifth 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 material in this textbook will continue where the fourth-grade installment ends, and 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 elementary students for the next phases of their music education and achievements. In this installment, several more advanced concepts of rhythm will be taught, including various meters like 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4, a review of common and cut time, and new vocabulary like triplets, ties, and slurs.Students will continue their education of melodies by learning the differences in naturals, flats, and sharps, differentiating between major and minor keys, building the major scale, and introducing the bass clef. Students will learn a variety of new tone color vocabulary and their applications, such as duet, trio, quartet, chorus, soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. The concepts of harmony and tone will be expanded upon with students engaging in topics such as thick and thin textures, unison and harmony, new vocabulary like ostinato, partner songs, descants, countermelodies, and rounds, and various chord patterns. Finally, students will continue their education of different musical styles, engaging in various musical pieces from different cultures and time periods and comparing and contrasting these different types of music.