First rhythmic composition
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/grade-6-8/First_Rhythmic_Composition.aspx
A lesson plan for grade 5 Mathematics and Music Education
This ARTSEDGE lesson introduces students to rhythm concepts, including the names and symbols associated with music notation. Students fill in a chart that outlines names and meanings of rhythmic musical symbols. They then clap rhythm sequences and compose their first compositions using these symbols. They also compare these rhythmic sequences to math concepts. This lesson is part of a curriculum unit titled “Music Composition.”
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 5
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will understand and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency in adding and subtracting non-negative rational numbers (halves, fourths, eighths; thirds, sixths, twelfths; fifths, tenths, hundredths, thousandths; mixed numbers).
- Develop and analyze strategies for adding and subtracting numbers.
- Estimate sums and differences.
- Judge the reasonableness of solutions.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency in adding and subtracting non-negative rational numbers (halves, fourths, eighths; thirds, sixths, twelfths; fifths, tenths, hundredths, thousandths; mixed numbers).
Music Education (2001)
Grade 5
- Goal 2: The learner will play on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
- Objective 2.01: Play with pitch and rhythmic accuracy.
- Objective 2.04: Play independent instrumental parts while others sing and/or play rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic parts.
- Goal 5: The learner will read and notate music.
- Objective 5.01: Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted note and rest durations in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meters.
- Goal 8: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts.
- Objective 8.02: Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other content areas taught in the school are related to those of music.
