VOCAL MUSIC

Curriculum: Each class attends vocal music once every six-day cycle for forty minutes.  During this time, students will be engaged in various aspects of musical learning including:

• singing, alone and with others **

• playing singing games from around the world **

• movement activities 

• learning concepts about music literacy including: rhythmic and melodic components, dynamics, expression, form, meter, tempo and more

• playing rhythm instruments (as available for the 2024-2025 school year)

• the basics of composition and improvisation

• analyzing and evaluating music

• understanding music's connection to art, culture, history, and other subject areas

• Applying constructive feedback to enhance performance 

  The vocal music curriculum utilizes tenets and practices from multiple pedagogical approaches, including the Kodály philosophy, as well as John Fierabend’s, Conversational Solfege. Ultimately, students will be prepared to enter middle school as tuneful, beatful, and artful young musicians. These terms are defined below:  

   

• Tuneful = Students can sing in tune with ease. Students can access a light and gentle head voice, demonstrating their knowledge pertaining to healthy vocal registration. 

• Beatful = Students can demonstrate consistent beat groupings with ease, successfully applying their knowledge pertaining to meter. 

• Artful = Students can demonstrate the expressive nature of music with ease, demonstrating their increased emotional awareness and intuition via music and musical ideas. 

In 2014, the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards released the new National Core Arts Standards, a process that guides educators in providing a unified quality arts education in Pre-K through high school. The standards include: 

• Creating
• Performing/Presenting/Producing
• Responding
• Connecting

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About the Instructor: 

Hello Great Neck Community and Families! My name is Desireé DeMelfi, and I am super excited to join E.M Baker as a Vocal Music Instructor! Before coming to Baker, I served as a general music teacher and elementary chorus director in Suffolk County. I received my Bachelor's Degree in Music Education with a Concentration in Vocal Studies from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey. I also co-instructued the First Steps in Music, Community Children’s Program at Stony Brook University (SUNY), and I look forward to continuing my education and development as a music educator.
Please feel free to contact me at any time. I'm looking forward to a joyful year of learning, singing, and performing! 

Ms. Desireé DeMelfi

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Ms. Aurora Coman (Grade 1 Music)
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