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Music Theory in Practice: Grade 4 Eric Taylor
Publisher: Abrsm (Publishing) Ltd

The students compose and perform songs focusing on melody, rhtyhm, and dynamics . Instrument technique is stressed along with the elements of melody, harmony, and rhythm. Rhythmic skills will be practiced on instruments and refined along with other musical elements, such as tone. Third Grade General Music - Students learn to read notes on the staff in preparation for the recorder unit. With a friendly, coordinated onscreen “Exploring Theory” textbook and hundreds of interactive learning activities, For example, about two years ago my 5th-grade students were playing recorders and having problems with a particular passage. I asked them to stop playing and sing the notes to help get the passage in their ear. Sixth Grade General Music - Students in 6th Grade General Music focus on music theory. It probably would have gone untouched much longer were it not for a dream I had last night in which Politifact.com's Truth-O-Meter kept scoring my lectures (seriously). It offers a complete drill and practice tutor for both music theory and ear training with well over 100 activities. Here's my problem with this year's midterms: music theory is assessed regularly through homework assignments and quizzes, whereas music history is only assessed at exam times (a problem I openly recognize apropos the course design and my planning within it, but that's another blog post).