2nd Grade

Question 1

Melody

Answer 1

•	Pentatonic Scale
	Identify r-d scale tones
	Identify r-d hand signs
•	D to b singing tessitura
•	Sing songs with ostinato accompaniment
•	Demonstrate proper vocal technique
•	Perform variations of Pentatonic scale

Question 2

Harmony

Answer 2

•	Proper mallet technique
o	Demonstrate ostinato
o	Demonstrate simple bordun (broken)
•	Experience Vocal ostinato
•	Experience suspended pitch
•	Experience major/minor
•	Begins to sense closed/strong and open/weak cadences

Question 3

Rhythm

Answer 3

• Demonstrate quarter and half note pulse
• Identify two eighth notes with flags as the same as two beamed eighth notes
• Identify two tied quarter notes as the same as a half note
• Identify two quarter rests as the same as a half rest
• Label half notes and rests
• Define tempo
• Recognize time signatures

Question 4

Form

Answer 4

• Demonstrate phrase
• Identify coda
• Identify ABC
• Identify bar line

Question 5

timbre

Answer 5

•	Identify pitched percussion
o	Xylophone, metallophone, glockenspiel 
•	Demonstrate hand drum technique
•	Identify accent
•	Begins to develop skipping skills
•	Achievement of beat competence
•	body bordun
•	Identify forte/piano