The GWM program is aimed at taking music to children in schools. Apart from learning the musical elements, students are exposed to application of these concepts to further their cognitive and social development. The course is aimed at helping children to be able to appreciate music and allow music to impact their lives in a positive way.
Objectives
1.Gain understanding about musical elements - rhythm and tempo, timbre, pitch, articulation, dynamics, texture, expression,form, genre.
2. Active listening, composing, performance and appreciation of music
Social Interaction
- Cooperation and peer interaction
Rhythm and Tempo
- Responding to music using manipulatives, understanding the changes in beat-grouping when a piece of music is played
- Introduction to a variety of musical instruments used/modified to keep beat
- Understand the effect of tempo change on the
Pitch
- Sing along- matching pitch; understand that pitch can be High and Low
- Notes, melodic patterns, intervals
- Types of notes- natural and accidental (Shudh and Vikrit)
- How Ragas are born- interplay of notes
- Learning to harmonize
- Read notation and understand the melody it represents
World Culture and Musical Genres, Musical Form
- Identify the genre of a piece of music: Classical; Pop; Folk. Exposure to forms like Symphony, Opera, Jazz/Blues
- Arabic song
- Traditional Arabic instrumentaion, dance, costumes- an overview
- Hindi film songs and Indian classical Ragas
Dynamics
- Interpret and apply a wide variety of dynamics when singing and in related activities- speaking, moving, etc.
- Explore how application of dynamics changes the expression of any piece of music or speech
Timbre
- Instrumental families- percussion, woodwind, string, brass
Texture
- Call and response
- Monophony
- Homophony
- Polyphony
Articulation
- Understanding marcato, legato and staccato. Legato singing to a staccato accompaniment.
Performance
Form
- Structure of a song
- Analyzing and notating structure of a song
Musical Expression
