Grade 2 • Music What Your Child Will Learn

Grade 2 Music

What Your Child Will Learn

At all levels, Howard County music education focuses around these three artistic processes:

  • Performing: Realizing artistic ideas and work through individual or ensemble performance or presentation
  • Creating: Conceiving and developing artistic ideas through music making while connecting to historical, contextual, and personal events
  • Responding: Synthesis of meaning, context, and process through interaction with, and connection to the musical world

Musical concepts are carefully sequenced through kinesthetic, aural, and visual experiences. The student's singing voice is the primary instrument and developed throughout the elementary general music curriculum.

Melody and Pitch

  • Listen, perform, and describe music in both major and minor modes.
  • Listen to, perform, and describe music using high and low.
  • Echo a variety of short melodic patterns (whole note, half note, quarter note, quarter rest, and two connected eighth notes).
  • Sing from memory a varied repertoire of songs, representing different genres, styles, and cultures.

Harmony and Texture

  • Create and perform an ostinato while students perform a contrasting ostinato.
  • Sing one part of a two-part round while teacher sings another part.

Tone Color

  • Identify and describe the Orchestral instrument families.
  • Describe the differences between adult male/female and children’s voices.
  • Differentiate between blending voices and non-blending voices.

Tempo

  • Listen to, perform, and describe music that illustrates fast and slow.

Rhythm

  • Echo a variety of short rhythmic patterns (whole note, quarter note, quarter rest, and two eighth notes connected).
  • Identify and apply 2, 3, 4, and 6, representing meter in aural and visual examples.
  • Experiment with simple notation to represent 2 measures.

Dynamics

  • Listen to, perform, and describe music that illustrates loud and soft.

Form

  • Identify A-A-B-A, Rondo, and Theme and Variations forms aurally and visually.