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Schola / Music

Ms. Elizabeth Gust

My name is Elizabeth Gust and I am the general music and Schola teacher at Holy Childhood School. I am a graduate of the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University where I received a BA in Music and K-12 Education.

My concentration was in vocal and choral music, with a special emphasis in vocal health and pedagogy. I spent the last school year teaching at Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes. There I directed four choirs, an extra-curricular chamber choir, the school musical, and taught voice lessons.

I was married in January and reside in St. Paul with my husband and our cats Milo and Mabel. I enjoy performing opera and musical theater in my spare time.

K & 1 Music Concepts

2 & 3 Music Concepts

Rhythm:
Demonstrate beat
Identify beat as “Ta”
Experience fast/slow

Harmony:
Develop proper mallet technique
Experience ostinato

Melody:
Differentiate between high/low
Experience up/down
Experience Sol, La, Mi melodies
Demonstrate contour

Form:
Experience same/different
Identify phrase
Identify introduction
Identify repeat sign

Timbre:
Differentiate between speaking/singing voice
Identify unpitched instruments
Demonstrate dynamics (loud/quiet)
Use four levels of body percussion (snap/clap/pat/stamp)
Classify pitched percussion

Assessed On….
Singing v. Speaking voice
Keeping the beat
Pitch matching
Instrument technique

Rhythm:
Demonstrate quarter note/half note pulse
Identify ti-ti, ties
Label half note
Label half rest
Define tempo
Experience meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8)

Melody:
Demonstrate contour
Demonstrate proper vocal technique
Experience Mi, Re, Do melodies
Identify Do and Re scale tones and hand signs
Perform MRD/SMRD/SMD/SMLD

Harmony:
Develop proper mallet technique
Demonstrate ostinato
Experience major/minor
Experience vocal ostinato
Demonstrate broken chords
Experience suspended pitch

Form:
Demonstrate phrase
Identify coda
Identify ABC
Identify bar line/double bar/ measure

Timbre:
Identify forte/piano
Identify pitched percussion
Demonstrate hand drum technique
Identify accent

Assessed On….
Pitch Matching
La, Sol, Mi, Do and hand signs
Instrument identification
Instrument technique
Writing and identifying rhythms
Identifying form

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4 & 5 Music Concepts

Rhythm:
Demonstrate pulse
Identify
Lable eighth rest
Experience accelerando/ritardando
Label pick up (anacrusis)
Conduct in 3
Visualize 6/8
Identify triplet

Harmony:
Demonstrate mallet techinque
Experience canon/round
Experience ostinato
Distinguish between major/minor
Demonstrate moving bordun
Experience I-V

Melody:
Develop a repertoire of songs
Review treble clef lines/spaces
Experience BAGEDC on recorder
Experience countermelody
Identify Ti
Identify ledger lines
Experience scale
Label sharp/flat

Form:
Demonstrate phrase
Experience Rondo
Lable D.C. al Fine
Experience 12 bar blues

Timbre:
Identify orchestral woodwind family
Identify orchestral brass family
Identify pianissimo/fortissimo

Assessed On….
Pitch Matching
Ti, La, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do and hand signs
Instrument technique
Notating pitches
Writing and identifying rhythms
Recorder technique
Form identification

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