Green Bean's Music

Series

Green Bean's Music

11 episodes

Bright, animated music explainers for the elementary classroom, hosted by a cheerful green bean. This collection is the series' theory and notation core: catchy videos that name the seven elements of music, walk through musical form (AB, ABA, and rondo), and teach kids to read the page. Separate shorts cover note and rest values, the treble and bass clef staffs, time signatures, accidentals, the British note names, and dynamics from pianissimo to fortissimo. Each video leads on screen with clear captions and examples, so a class can name a symbol, say what it means, and use the vocabulary in the music activities that follow. Aimed at grades 2 through 6.

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what this series covers

What Green Bean's Music covers

11 episodes in the library, tagged for 2nd–6th. Heaviest coverage: Music. Between them they line up with 4 distinct standards across 1 framework.

Episodes per grade

2nd
1
3rd
10
4th
11
5th
11
6th
11

Episodes per subject

Music
11

National Core Arts 4

  • MU:Pr4.2.6bWhen analyzing selected music, read and identify by name or function standard symbols for rhythm, pitch, articulation, and dynamics.
  • MU:Pr4.2.6aExplain how understanding the structure and the elements of music are used in music selected for performance.
  • MU:Re7.2.6aDescribe how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of the pieces.
  • MU:Re8.1.6aDescribe a personal interpretation of how creators' and performers' application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres and cultural and historical context, convey expressive intent.

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