TEACHING MUSIC

IN ELEMENTARY GRADES

BEED 113 FIRST SEMESTER 2020-2021

INTODUCTION

This teaching module is intended to BEED

113 students Teaching Music in Elementary
Grades. It aims to provide comprehensive
knowledge, skills, musical awareness and
appreciation in learning the fundamentals of
Music. This is also serving as guidance in
teaching new approach in Music.
FUNDAMENTAL OF MUSIC ELEMENTS
Music is a vocal or instrumental sounds combined in
such a way to produced beauty of form, harmony and
expression of emotion It can be analyzed by considering a
variety of elements or parts individually or together
.Musical Sound is any tone with characteristics such as
controlled pitch and timbre. The sound vibrations produced
by instruments or voice by performers. In musical writings
and interpretation of musical sound, tone represents
different notes with specific value. A pause or rests also has
significant part in performing musical score.
THE NOTES AND RESTS

 
WORK SHEET FOR NOTES AND RESTS
FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH NOTE ,REST AND VALUE
 RHYTHM
 It is a strong, regular, repeated pattern of
movement or sound.
 Strong- heavy rain fall regular -
(Feel the heart beat) others specify
RHYTHMIC PATTERNS

The meter of a song is indicated by its time

signature. It consists of two numbers stacked one
on top of the other. The top number represents the
number of beats per measure while the bottom
number represents the note value each beat.
TIME SIGNATURES AND BEAT PATTERN
 

Find tig isang staff na may

 Musical score with 2 ,3 and 4 6 signatures
4 4 4 8
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 ACTIVITY

 Practice conducting the beat pattern/time

signature.
 Find children/folksongs musical scores with
different time signatures and practice the beat
pattern/time signature
MELODY

It is timely arranged linear sequence of

pitched sounds that composed of musical tones
vary in pitch which can be low, moderate and
high tone.
sample video
STAFF

Consist of 5 lines and 4 spaces where notes,

rests and other musical writings /manuscript
place .Specifically named in letters E,G,B,D, F
for 5 lines and F,A,C,E for 4 spaces.
ACTIVITY IN TREBLE CLEF LETTER NAMES
SOFA SYLLABLE

It is one of the names for notes of a musical

scale in solmization. This is a system of
attributing a distinct syllable to each note of a
musical scale.
Sofa Syllables – do re mi fa so la ti do

 
KODALY METHOD
It is a way of developing musical skills and
teaching musical concepts beginning in a very
young children .This method uses Curwen hand
signals, pictures, movable do rhythm and
syllables. Curwen Glover hand signals
emphasizes the importance of learning how to
sing on pitch.
 THE STAVES
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TREBLE/G STAFF

Activity-Practice Kodaly Method using Treble Staff with

proper tone placement( singing it ).
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ACTIVITY-KODALY METHOD USING THIS MUSICAL SCORE AND
SING IT.
BASS /F STAFF
ACTIVITY- GIVE THE LETTER NAMES AND SOFA SYLLABLES IN BASS
STAFF. EXAMPLE C-DO
GRAND STAFF
.Middle C located near the center of the keyboard, falls in the center
of the grand staff. Guido d’Arezzo invented in about the year
1000.Consist of treble staff joined to a bass staff by means of a
brace.
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
ACTIVITY-GIVE THE LETTER NAMES AND SOFA
SYLLABLES IN GRAND STAFF
MELODIC PATTERN
Conjunct- When the notes of a melody are close
together.
 Disjunct - When the notes of a melody are far
apart.
 Mixed- Combination of conjunct and disjunct
 
 
FORM

In music form refers to the over all

structure or plan of a musical
composition or performance. It
describes the layout of a composition
as divided into sections.
STRUCTURE OF MUSICAL FORM
Unitary Form- Also known as Strophic form (AAA), which has the same melody over
different song stanzas that have different lyrics. Moreover, a song is unitary in its form if
it has this “repetitive “nature.

 Binary (AB) – describes the structure of a piece of music which is divided into two
different sections .The two sections are usually labeled A and B.

 Ternary Form (ABA)- It is Sometimes called song form ,is a three-part musical form
consisting of an opening section ,a following section and then repetition of the first
section.
 
 Rondo (ABACABA)-A piece of music where the musical material stated at the beginning
of the piece keeps returning.T his opening music can be called either the theme or the
refrain they are the same thing.

Activity- Identify musical form of the following familiar children songs.

HEAD,SHOULDERS,KNEES AND TOES
RAIN RAIN
BINGGO
ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT
OLD MCDONALD HAD A FARM
 TIMBRE
 The quality of a musical sound or voice as
distinct from its pitch and intensity.
 of voice range
 
VOCAL SOUND

Video of Chorale

Activity-Identify the timber of different voices

performed with harmony.

The instruments produced quality sound or timber

depends on its size, shape and kind of instrument.
Classifications of instruments are Stringed, Wood
Wind, Brass and Percussion.
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS
Instruments sounded by plucking , striking or
by bowing a bow across its tight strings.
STRING INSTRUMENTS
STRING I NSTRU MENT
STRING INSTRUMENT
WOOD WIND /BRASS INSTRUMENTS
It is a type of musical instrument that play by
blowing into its mouthpiece.

 
 
 
 
 
WOOD WIND AND BRASS INSTRUMENTS
WOOD WIND INSTRUMENT
WOOD WIND INSTRUMENT
WOOD WIND INSTRUMENT
WOOD WIND INSTRUMENT
BRASS INSTRUMENTS

Brass Instruments are musical instruments

that produce sound in a tubular resonator in
sympathy with vibration of the player’s lips.
BRASS INSTRUMENT
BRASS INSTRUMENT
BRASS INSTRUMENT
BRASS INSTRUMENT
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS

Musical instruments that is sounded by

being struck or scraped by a beater including
attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck,
scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against
another similar instrument.
 Pictures with description
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
 LISTENING ACTIVITY

video of Orchestra

Activity –Identify the quality sounds of different

instruments performed in an orchestra.