Week One:
The Musical Alphabet
Weeks Two and Three:
Dynamics and Tempo Markings: How do we know whether the music should be played loudly or softly, quickly or slowly?
Weeks Four and Five:
Notes and Rests, The Long and Short of it. (Whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted half notes)
Weeks Six and Seven:
Making Patterns with Notes and Rests, Call and Response Songs
Weeks Eight and Nine:
The Music Staff, Measures, Bar lines, and Endings (Fine and Repeat Sign)
Week Ten:
The Treble Clef and the Treble Staff
Week Eleven:
The Bass Clef and the Bass Staff
Week Twelve:
Simple Meter and Triple Meter and the 4/4 and 3/4 Time Signatures
Week Thirteen:
Smooth and Bumpy (Legato and Staccato)
Week Fourteen:
Making a Musical Phrase with Slurs and Ties 
Week Fifteen:
Accidentals (Sharps and Flats)

Musical Examples may include:

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor 
Camille Sant-Saens “The Swan” from Carnival of the Animals
Edvard Grieg’s “Morning” from Peer Gynt 
Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee” from The Tale of Tsar Sultan
Brahms' Lullaby 
Edvard Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture 

Arthur "Guitar Boogie"
Smith’s “Dueling Banjos”
Swahili song “Che Che Koolay” 
Protestant Hymn “Oh Happy Day”

Tchaikovsky’s “Waltz of the Flowers” from The Nutcracker 
Johann Strauss II’s, “The Blue Danube Waltz”
Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty Waltz” from Sleeping Beauty

Cole Porter’s “Begin the Beguine”
Van Heusen and Burke’s “Swinging on a Star” 
Arthur and Burke’s “Pennies From Heaven”

Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings”
Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune”
Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43: Variation XVIII” 
Frédéric Chopin’s “Prelude in E-Minor Op.28 No. 4”

Rubinstein’s “Staccato Etude Op. 23 No. 2”
Grigora Dinicu’s “Hora Staccato”
Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No 2 in B KV 39 - Andante staccato”
Vivaldi’s “Winter” from The Four Seasons
Gabriel Fauré’s “Pavane Op.50”