7Th Grade Music Curriculum Map Miss Ogg

TOPICS Duration Fall Spring Unit 1: Elements of Music 1 week Aug Jan Introduce basic elements of music: Melody, Harmony, Rhythm, Texture, Dynamics, Tone Color/Timbre, Form; Music and Physics Unit 2: Medieval Period 3 Sep Jan/ Melody, Music notation, Medieval instruments, Gregorian , weeks Feb /Trouveres/Minnesingers, Concert/Recital Etiquette, Composers (, , , , , Guilliame de Machaut, Leonin, Perotin, Phillipe de Vitry), Unit 3: Renaissance Period 3 wks Sep/ Feb Harmony, Grand Staff, pitch identification, , Mass settings, Oct /, Reformation/Counter Reformation, Music and the Printing Press, Composers (Palestrina, Byrd, Monteverdi) Unit 4: Baroque Period 5 wks Oct Mar Polyphony, Baroque Instruments, Intervals, Major/Minor Thirds, Major/Minor/Augmented/Diminshed Triads, Composers (Sweelinck, Bach, Lully, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Telemann) Unit 5: Classical Period 4 wks Oct/ Mar/ Melody and Harmony, Symphony, Concerto, String Quartet, Sonata, Sonata Nov Apr Form, Development of the orchestra, Composers (CPE Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven) Unit 6: Romantic Period 3 wks Nov Apr Absolute Music, Program Music, Nationalism in Music, Composers (Brahms Symphony No. 1, Movt. IV, Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Berlioz, Symphonie , Wagner, Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Dvořák, Symphony No. 9, (“From the New World”), Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture, Greig, Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2), Smetana, Ma Vlast Unit 7: American 20th Century 2 wks Dec May Blues, Spirituals, Ragtime, Improvisation, Syncopation, Jazz, Composers (Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland) Semester Review 1 week Dec May