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 Chant, weeks Feb Troubadours/Trouveres/Minnesingers, Concert/Recital Etiquette, Composers (Guido of Arezzo, Hildegard of Bingen, Bernart de Ventadorn, Comtessa de Dia, Adam de la Halle, Guilliame de Machaut, Leonin, Perotin, Phillipe de Vitry), Unit 3: Renaissance Period 3 wks Sep/ Feb Harmony, Grand Staff, pitch identification, Polyphony, Mass settings, Oct Madrigals/Motets, 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 Fantastique, 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 .