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Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
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Lesson Plans: 4
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.


• Grade level song literature

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
2.) Sing with good posture maintaining a steady tempo.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
3.) Memorize songs representing diverse cultures.


Example: singing simple folk songs in a pentatonic scale

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
4.) Demonstrate the difference between speech and singing.


Examples: whispering, shouting, speaking/singing

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
5.) Use their age-appropriate vocal range utilizing head tone.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
6.) Perform steady beats on instruments.


Example: accompanying songs, stories, or poems using classroom instruments

  Connections: Count in sequence (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
7.) Echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
8.) Read simple rhythmic patterns.


• Quarter notes and quarter rests

• Paired eighth notes

  Connections: Explore and create patterns using objects and pictures (mathematics).

  Connections: Use vocabulary associated with measurement (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
9.) Recognize the difference between high and low sounds.


Example: bird call, lion roar

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
10.) Recognize melodic contour.


Example: singing and showing direction through movement

  Connections: Read and interpret a musical graph of the melody line which is written on the staff (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
11.) Respond to a melody through movement.


Example: dancing and showing the expressive qualities of the tune (march, glide).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
12.) Recognize various vocal timbres (tone qualities).


• Speaking voice

• Singing voice

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
13.) Differentiate between solo and group performance.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
14.) Express musical ideas using movement and body percussion.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
15.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
16.) Recognize relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


Example: repetition in patterns found in nature, wallpaper, poetry, clothing, sounds, songs, architecture, and dance

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): K
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 8
17.) Consider music in relation to history and culture.


Examples: patriotic songs, holiday songs, songs related to self and family life, songs from other cultures

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with other students.


Examples: nursery rhymes, folk songs, holiday songs, grade level repertoire

  Connections: Explore rhyming words (language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
2.) Sing with proper vocal technique.


• Pure head tone

• Good diction

• Good posture

• On pitch

• In rhythm

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
3.) Sing songs representing diverse cultures.


  Connections: Investigate music from families and countries near and far (social studies). Create a picture of a family from another country or draw a representative family portrait of their own family (visual arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
4.) Use age-appropriate vocal range.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
5.) Demonstrate the difference between speaking and singing.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
6.) Sing expressively.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
7.) Perform steady beats on classroom instruments.


  Connections: Count in a variety of ways (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
8.) Echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.


Examples: teacher clapping rhythmic pattern; students echoing on unpitched percussion instrument

  Connections: Explore patterning of objects (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
9.) Perform accompaniment on pitched and unpitched classroom instruments.


Example: playing nursery rhymes

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
10.) Read simple rhythmic patterns.


• Quarter notes and quarter rests

• Paired eighth notes

• Half note

• Connections: Identify and compare the number of objects in sets (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
11.) Recognize and use standard notational symbols and terms.


Example:AE19980101MUS0112.gif

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
12.) Identify notation on the staff as being on a line or in a space.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
13.) Recognize the difference between high and low sounds and upward and downward melodic direction.


  Connections: Develop vocabulary used to compare and measure (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
14.) Recognize melodic contour.


  Connections: Draw contours which represent sections of music. Combine to create shapes and patterns (visual arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
15.) Respond to a melody through movement while listening to music.


  Connections: Investigate spatial relationships (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
16.) Identify the title of a familiar song from listening to the melody.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
17.) Differentiate between solo and group performance.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
18.) Recognize various vocal and instrumental timbres.


Examples: child voice, adult voice, pitched classroom instruments, unpitched classroom instruments

  Connections: Explore sounds within the classroom and categorize them under these headings (science).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
19.) Recognize form.


Examples: AB (binary)

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
20.) Improvise answers to given rhythmic phrases.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
21.) Express musical ideas using creative movement and body percussion.


Examples: using scarves, hula hoops to express lyrics of song

  Connections: Use interpretive movements to dramatize the words (dance).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
22.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
23.) Recognize and practice accepted performance behavior. (See Appendix B.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
24.) Compare relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


  Connections: Identify things which are alike and different in music and visual arts by illustrating songs or creating a song about a picture (visual arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 1
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 8
25.) Examine music in relation to history and culture.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.


  Connections: Create a story from the music and dramatize (theatre and language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
2.) Sing with proper vocal technique.


• Pure head tone

• Good diction

• Good posture

• On pitch

• In rhythm

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 6
3.) Sing songs representing diverse cultures.


Example: performing folk songs in their native language

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
4.) Use age-appropriate vocal range.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
5.) Sing expressively with technical accuracy and appropriate dynamics.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
6.) Respond to the cues of a conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
7.) Perform a varied repertoire of music using correct posture and playing positions.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
8.) Perform steady, strong, and weak beats using simple, repeated rhythmic patterns.


  Connections: Demonstrate proficiency in the use of basic number concepts and skills (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
9.) Perform simple melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns on classroom instruments.


Examples: half notes and rests; quarter notes and rests; eighth notes and rests

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
10.) Perform accompaniment on pitched and unpitched instruments.


• To music from diverse cultures

• To movement

• To poems, nursery rhymes

  Connections: Use interpretive steps and patterns to visually illustrate accompaniments (dance) visually.

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
11.) Echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
12.) Perform independently while others sing and play contrasting parts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
13.) Respond to the cues of the conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
14.) Read simple rhythmic patterns.


• Half notes and half rests

• Whole notes and whole rests

• Quarter notes and rests

• Eighth notes and rests

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
15.) Recognize and use standard notation and terms.


Example Image

  Connections: Recognize that (>) is an accent mark and means these notes are important. When it is used in math it means "greater than" (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
16.) Identify by name melodies of familiar songs.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
17.) Demonstrate the difference between high and low sounds and upward and downward melodic direction.


  Connections: Identify the antonyms above and find them in the music (language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
18.) Describe melodic contours.


Examples: using gestures or drawings to indicate upward/downward movement

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
19.) Respond to a melody through movement.


  Connections: Use a combination of high and low movements to create an eight beat long sequence (dance).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
20.) Distinguish between duple and triple meters.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
21.) Recognize melodic direction on the staff.


  Connections: Extend and create models (graphs) to show contour (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
22.) Recognize like and unlike phrases (music thoughts).


  Connections: Extend and create patterns using symbols

Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
23.) Recognize and perform melodic and rhythmic motives.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
24.) Recognize and perform simple song forms.


Examples: AB (verse/chorus), ABA, rondo (ABACA)

  Connections: Create pictures that illustrate like and different shapes in a pattern that represents musical form (visual arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
25.) Recognize various vocal and instrumental timbres.


• Male and female voices

• Instrumental families

• Classroom instruments

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
26.) Categorize instruments according to how the sound is produced.


  Connections: Investigate sound generators (science).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
27.) Improvise answers to given rhythmic phrases.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
28.) Express musical ideas using creative movement, body percussion, classroom instruments, body sounds, and vocal sounds.


  Connections: Create a sound story (theatre).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
29.) Compose simple melodies and ostinatos.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
30.) Use a variety of sound sources when composing.


Examples: body percussion, homemade instruments, rhythm sticks, electronic sounds, pitched/unpitched instruments, keyboard instruments

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
31.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
32.) Recognize and practice accepted performance behavior. (See Appendix B.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 8
33.) Recognize relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 2
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 9
34.) Consider music in relation to history and culture.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
2.) Sing with proper vocal technique.


• Pure head tone

• Good diction

• Good posture

• On pitch

• In rhythm

• Breath control

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 7
3.) Sing songs representing diverse cultures.


Examples: multi-cultural songs, folk songs

  Connections: Develop questions from the song texts and write the answers in complete sentences (language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
4.) Use age appropriate vocal range.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
5.) Sing expressively.


• Technical accuracy

• Appropriate dynamics

• Phrasing

• Interpretation

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
6.) Respond to the cues of a conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
7.) Sing ostinatos, partner songs, and rounds.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
8.) Perform a varied repertoire of music using correct posture and playing position.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
9.) Perform steady, strong, and weak beats using simple, repeated rhythmic patterns.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
10.) Perform simple accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments.


• To music from diverse cultures

• To movement

• To poems, stories

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
11.) Perform simple melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns on classroom instruments.


Examples: whole notes and rests; half notes and rests; quarter notes and rests; eighth notes and rests

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
12.) Echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
13.) Perform independently while others sing and play contrasting parts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
14.) Respond to the cues of the conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
15.) Use rhythmic accompaniments to movement.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
16.) Read simple rhythmic patterns.


• Dotted half notes

• Eighth rest

  Connections: Read and interpret patterns using objects and symbols (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
17.) Recognize and use standard notational symbols and terms.


Example Image

  Connections: Rewrite number problems by substituting music notes for numbers (mathematics). Example: 1 + 1 = 2, q + q = h

Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
18.) Describe staff notation as moving up, down, by skip, by step, by leap, or as staying the same.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
19.) Use a system (symbols, numbers, or letters) to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
20.) Identify notation on the staff by line space names.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
21.) Identify melodies of familiar songs by name.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
22.) Distinguish between high and low sounds.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
23.) Recognize and describe melodic contour.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
24.) Interpret melody through movement and discussion of those movements.


  Connections: Use the contour of the melody to create a story (dance).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
25.) Distinguish between meters.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
26.) Recognize and label phrases.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
27.) Recognize and perform melodic and rhythmic motives.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
28.) Recognize and perform simple song forms.


• AB

• ABA

• Rondo

  Connections: Explore and create patterns using objects and pictures (mathematics and visual arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 7
29.) Recognize instruments by sight and sound.


• Classroom and folk instruments

Examples: autoharp, guitar, maracas

• Selected orchestral instruments

Examples: violin, trumpet, flute, drum

  Connections: Name and spell correctly specific instrument vocabulary (spelling and language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 6
30.) Categorize instruments by how the sound is produced and by families.


  Connections: List and label words using instrument categories (language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
31.) Improvise answers to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
32.) Create variations and accompaniments.


  Connections: Describe, extend, and create a variety of geometric patterns (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
33.) Express musical ideas using creative movement, body percussion, classroom instruments, body sounds, and vocal sounds.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
34.) Use a variety of sound sources when composing.


Examples: body percussion, homemade instruments, rhythm sticks, electronic sounds, recorders, keyboards, pitched/unpitched instruments

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
35.) Compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
36.) Compose and arrange simple songs and instrumental pieces.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
37.) Compose melodies and ostinatos.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
38.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
39.) Recognize and practice accepted performance behavior. (See Appendix B.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 11
40.) Identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 3
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 14
41.) Correlate music in relation to history and culture.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
2.) Sing with proper vocal technique.


• Pure head tone

• Good diction

• Good posture

• On pitch

• In rhythm

• Breath control

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 7
3.) Sing songs representing diverse cultures and genres.


  Connections: Develop maps that show the geological area of the song (social studies).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
4.) Use age-appropriate vocal range.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
5.) Sing expressively.


• Technical accuracy

• Appropriate dynamics

• Phrasing

• Interpretation

• Vocal timbres blended

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
6.) Respond to the cues of a conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
7.) Sing ostinatos, partner songs, rounds, and descant.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
8.) Perform a varied repertoire of music using correct posture and playing position on pitched and unpitched classroom instruments.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
9.) Perform steady, strong, and weak beats using simple, repeated rhythmic patterns.


  Connections: Determine lines of symmetry (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
10.) Perform simple accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments.


• To music from diverse cultures

• To movement

• To poems, stories

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
11.) Perform simple melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns on classroom instruments.


Examples: half notes and rests; quarter notes and rests; eighth notes and rests;

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
12.) Echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
13.) Perform independently while others sing and play contrasting parts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
14.) Respond to the cues of the conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
15.) Recognize and use standard notation symbols and terms.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
16.) Describe staff notation as moving up, down, by skip, by step, by leap or as staying the same.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
17.) Use a system (syllables, numbers, or letters) to read pitch notation in the treble clef in major, minor keys.


Examples: C, F, G pentatonic, major and a, d, e minor

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
18.) Read rhythmic patterns in regular meters.


• Sixteenth notes

• Single eighth notes and eighth rests

  Connections: Create word chains and word patterns combining them into sequences (language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
19.) Recognize and use the musical alphabet. (A, B, C, D, E, F, G)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
20.) Identify notation on the staff by line and space names.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
21.) Identify melodies of familiar songs by name.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
22.) Describe the difference between high and low sounds.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
23.) Analyze meters.


  Connections: Compare measurements of length (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
24.) Recognize and perform simple forms.


Examples: ABA theme and variation

  Connections: Create a dance using patterns for the theme and make changes for a variation of the themes (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
25.) Recognize melodic sequence.


Example: Melody B is a sequence to melody A.

Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 6
26.) Recognize instruments by sight and sound.


• Classroom and folk instruments

• Orchestral instruments

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
27.) Categorize instruments by the way the sound is produced and by instrument families.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
28.) Create variations and accompaniments to known melodies.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
29.) Improvise short songs and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources and pitched and unpitched instruments.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
30.) Improvise answers to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.


• Pentatonic scale

• Major, minor scales

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
31.) Explore timbres of electronic, environmental, and invented sound sources.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
32.) Use a variety of sound sources when composing.


Examples: body percussion, homemade instruments, rhythm sticks, electronic sounds, sound objects, recorders, keyboards, pitched and unpitched instruments

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
33.) Compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.


  Connections: Extend the concept of accompaniment by relating it to environment. Environment is the background in which we live and accompaniment is the musical background for the melody. Name other environments and what you would find in them (social s

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
34.) Compose and arrange songs and instrumental pieces.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
35.) Compose simple melodies and ostinatos.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
36.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
37.) Recognize and practice accepted performance behavior. (See Appendix B.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 7
38.) Identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 4
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 10
39.) Correlate music in relation to history and culture.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
2.) Sing with proper vocal technique.


• Pure head tone

• Good diction

• Good posture

• On pitch

• In rhythm

• Breath control

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 6
3.) Sing songs representing diverse cultures and genres.


  Connections: Write a story from the song selected. Write a new verse to the song. (language arts)

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
4.) Use age-appropriate vocal range.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
5.) Sing expressively.


• Technical accuracy

• Appropriate dynamics

• Phrasing

• Interpretation

• Vocal timbres blended

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
6.) Respond to the cues of a conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
7.) Sing ostinatos, descant, partner songs, rounds, two-part songs, and counter melodies.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
8.) Perform a varied repertoire of music using correct posture and playing position.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
9.) Perform steady, strong and weak beats using simple, repeated rhythmic patterns.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
10.) Perform simple accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments.


• To music from diverse cultures

• To movement

• To poems, stories

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 5
11.) Perform simple melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns on classroom instruments.


Examples: whole notes and rests; half notes and rests; quarter notes and rests; eighth notes and rests; dotted half notes and rests; sixteenth notes and rests; dotted quarter notes and rests

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 6
12.) Echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
13.) Perform independently while others sing and play contrasting parts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
14.) Respond to the cues of the conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
15.) Perform rhythmic accompaniments to movement.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
16.) Perform simple songs by sight.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
17.) Read rhythmic patterns in regular meters.


  Connections: Reinforce mathematical relationships by using musical symbols to add and subtract (mathematics).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
18.) Recognize and use standard notation symbols and terms.


• Meter

• Rhythm

• Pitch

• Dynamics

• Tempo

• Articulation

• Form

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
19.) Describe staff notation as moving up, down, by skip, by step, by leap or as staying the same.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
20.) Use a system (syllables, numbers, or letters) to read pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys.


  Connections: Identify coordinates on grids, graphs, and maps (mathematics and social studies).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
21.) Identify notation on the staff by line and space names.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
22.) Identify melodies of familiar songs by name.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
23.) Describe melodic contours.


  Connections: Experiment with pitch and vibrations to distinguish relationship between diameter and length of the sound generator (science).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
24.) Analyze meters.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
25.) Recognize and perform simple forms.


Examples: rondo, ABA, theme and variation

  Connections: Detect lines of symmetry in art, nature, architectures, and symbols (mathematics and visual arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
26.) Recognize melodic sequence.


Example: melody B is a sequence to melody A.

Example:AE19980505MUS0263.gif

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
27.) Recognize instruments by sight and sound.


• Band instruments

• Orchestral instruments

  Connections: Develop an experiment which demonstrates the relationship of the size of the sound generator to the pitch it produces (science).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
28.) Create rhythmic and melodic variations and harmonic accompaniments.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
29.) Improvise short songs and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources and unpitched instruments.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
30.) Improvise answers to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.


• Pentatonic scale

• Major/minor scales

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
31.) Explore timbres of electronic, environmental, and invented sound sources.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
32.) Compose simple melodies and ostinato accompaniments.


  Connections: Create spoken variations by repeating some words (language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
33.) Use a variety of sound sources when composing.


Examples: body percussion, homemade instruments, rhythm sticks, electronic sounds, sound objects, recorders, keyboards, computers, pitched/unpitched instruments

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
34.) Compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
35.) Compose and arrange songs and instrumental pieces.


  Connections: Write an advertisement for your song highlighting the musical element that is most evident (language arts).

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
36.) Use composition to demonstrate understanding of musical elements.


• Melody

• Rhythm

• Harmony

• Texture

• Form

• Timbre/Tone color

• Expressive elements

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
37.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
38.) Recognize and practice accepted performance behavior. (See Appendix B.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
39.) Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own performances and the performances of others.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 9
40.) Identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 5
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 8
41.) Correlate music in relation to history and culture.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.


Example: performing literature appropriate to the changing voice

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
2.) Sing with proper vocal technique.


• Pure head tone

• Good diction

• Good posture

• Intonation

• In rhythm

• Articulation

• Tonal production

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
3.) Sing expressively.


• Technical accuracy

• Appropriate dynamics

• Phrasing

• Interpretation

• Vocal timbres blended

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
4.) Use age-appropriate vocal range.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 6
5.) Sing songs representing diverse cultures.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
6.) Respond to the cues of a conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
7.) Maintain simple harmony part.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
8.) Sing descants, ostinatos, partner songs, rounds, and two-part songs.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
9.) Perform a varied repertoire of music using good posture and playing positions.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
10.) Perform simple accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments.


• To music from diverse cultures

• To movement

• To choral literature

• To poems, stories

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
11.) Perform with technical accuracy.


• Pitch

• Rhythms

• Tempo

• Dynamics

• Phrasing

• Balance

• Tone

• Articulation

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
12.) Blend timbres, sing accurate pitches, and respond to the cues of the conductor.


• Dynamics

• Tempo

• Articulation

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 4
13.) Recognize and use standard notation symbols and terms.


• Meter

• Rhythm

• Pitch

• Dynamics

• Tempo

• Articulation

• Form

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
14.) Use a system to read pitch notation in the treble clef in major, minor, and/or pentatonic keys.


Examples: solfége, numbers, letters

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
15.) Sight read and perform rhythmic patterns using unpitched and pitched instruments.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
16.) Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8 and 2/2 meter signatures.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
17.) Read at sight simple melodies in treble clef.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
18.) Use standard notation to record simple musical ideas.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
19.) Identify music forms when presented


Examples: theme and variation, fugue, concerto, sonata allegro

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
20.) Describe using correct terminology music events heard in a listening example.


Examples: introduction, timbre (instrumental/vocal), coda

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
21.) Demonstrate knowledge of musical elements through analysis of music.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
22.) Improvise and create variations and harmonic accompaniments for songs, books, stories, and poems.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
23.) Improvise vocal and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
24.) Improvise on given pentatonic, major and minor scales.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
25.) Explore timbres of traditional instruments and voices.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
26.) Compose and arrange songs and instrumental pieces.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
27.) Compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
28.) Use a variety of sound sources when composing.


Examples: homemade instruments, rhythm sticks, electronic sounds, recorders, keyboards, computers, pitched instruments, unpitched instruments

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
29.) Use composition to demonstrate understanding of musical elements.


• Melody

• Rhythm

• Harmony

• Form

• Texture

• Expressive elements

• Timbre

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
30.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
31.) Recognize and practice accepted performance behavior. (See Appendix B.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
32.) Develop and apply criteria for evaluating music performances and compositions.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
33.) Assess the quality and effectiveness of their own performances and performances of others.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 9
34.) Identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 6
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 8
35.) Correlate music in relation to history and culture.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.


Example: using literature appropriate to the changing voice

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
2.) Sing with proper vocal technique.


• Pure head tone

• Good diction

• Good posture

• Intonation

• In rhythm

• Articulation

• Tonal production

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
3.) Sing expressively.


• Technical accuracy

• Appropriate dynamics

• Phrasing

• Interpretation

• Vocal timbres blended

• Tempo

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
4.) Use age-appropriate vocal range.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 7
5.) Sing songs representing diverse cultures.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
6.) Respond to the cues of a conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
7.) Sing simple melodies and harmonies by sight.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
8.) Maintain simple harmony part.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
9.) Sing descants, ostinatos, partner songs, rounds, and two- and three-part songs.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
10.) Perform a varied repertoire of music using good posture and playing positions.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
11.) Perform simple accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments.


• To music from diverse cultures and genres

• To movement

• To choral literature

• To poems stories

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
12.) Perform with technical accuracy.


• Pitch

• Rhythms

• Tempo

• Dynamics

• Phrasing

• Balance

• Tone

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
13.) Use a system to read pitch notation in the treble and bass clefs in major, minor, and pentatonic keys.


Examples: solfége, numbers, letters

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
14.) Sight read and perform rhythmic patterns using unpitched and pitched instruments.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
15.) Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, dotted notes, and rests in 2/3, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, 2/2; meter signatures.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
16.) Read at sight simple melodies in treble and bass clefs.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
17.) Use standard notation to record musical ideas.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
18.) Recognize and use standard notation symbols and terms.


• Meter

• Rhythm

• Pitch

• Dynamics

• Tempo

• Articulation

• Form

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
19.) Identify music forms.


Examples: theme and variations, fugue, concerto, sonata allegro

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
20.) Describe music events in a listening example using correct terminology.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
21.) Demonstrate knowledge of musical elements through analyses of music.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
22.) Improvise and create rhythmic and melodic variations and harmonic accompaniments for songs, books, stories, and poems.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
23.) Improvise vocal and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
24.) Improvise on given pentatonic, major, and minor scales.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
25.) Explore timbres.


• Voice

• Electronic instruments

• Electronic sounds

• Environmental sounds

• Invented sound sources

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
26.) Use a variety of sound sources when composing.


Examples: homemade instruments, electronic sounds, recorders, keyboards, computers, pitched/unpitched instruments

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
27.) Compose and arrange simple songs and instrumental pieces.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
28.) Compose accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
29.) Use composition to demonstrate understanding of musical elements.


• Melody

• Rhythm

• Harmony

• Form

• Texture

• Expressive elements

• Timbre

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
30.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
31.) Recognize and practice accepted performance behavior. (See Appendix B.)


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 2
32.) Continue to develop and apply criteria for evaluating music performances and compositions.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
33.) Assess the quality and effectiveness of their own performances and performances of others.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 9
34.) Identify relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 7
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 7
35.) Correlate music in relation to history and culture.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
1.) Sing a varied repertoire of age-appropriate music alone and with others.


Example: literature appropriate to the changing voice

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 1
2.) Sing with proper vocal technique.


• Pure head tone

• Good diction

• Good posture

• Intonation

• In rhythm

• Articulation

• Tonal production

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
3.) Sing expressively.


• Technical accuracy

• Appropriate dynamics

• Phrasing

• Interpretation

• Vocal timbres blended

• Tempo

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
4.) Use age-appropriate vocal range.


Example Image

Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 7
5.) Sing songs representing diverse cultures.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
6.) Respond to the cues of a conductor.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
7.) Sing descants, ostinatos, partner songs, rounds, two-, three-, and four-part songs.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 3
8.) Perform a varied repertoire of music using good posture and playing positions.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
9.) Perform accompaniments to music from diverse cultures.


Arts Education (1998)
Grade(s): 8
Music
Web Links: 0
Lesson Plans: 0
10.) Perform accompaniments on pitched and unpitched instruments


• To music from diverse cultures and genres

• To movement

• To choral literature

• To poems, stories

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11.) Perform with technical accuracy.


• Pitch

• Rhythms

• Tempo

• Dynamics

• Phrasing

• Balance

• Tone

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12.) Read and play by sight moderately difficult songs.


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13.) Recognize and use standard notation symbols and terms.


• Meter

• Rhythm

• Pitch

• Dynamics

• Tempo

• Articulation

• Form

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14.) Use a system to read pitch notation in the treble and bass clefs in major, pentatonic, and minor keys.


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15.) Sight read and perform complex rhythmic patterns using unpitched and pitched instruments.


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16.) Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, and 2/2 meter signatures .


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17.) Read at sight melodies in both treble and bass clefs.


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18.) Use standard notation to record musical ideas.


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19.) Identify music forms.


Examples: theme and variation, fugue, concerto, sonata allegro

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20.) Describe music events in listening example using correct terminology.


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21.) Demonstrate knowledge of musical elements through analyses of music.


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22.) Improvise and create variations and accompaniments.


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23.) Improvise vocal and instrumental pieces using a variety of sound sources.


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24.) Explore timbres.


• Voice

• Electronic instruments

• Electronic sounds

• Environmental sounds

• Invented sound sources

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25.) Improvise on given pentatonic, major, minor, and simple modal scales.


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26.) Compose and arrange songs and instrumental pieces.


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27.) Compose accompaniments for songs, stories, poems, and dramatizations.


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28.) Use a variety of sound sources when composing.


Examples: electronic sounds, recorders, keyboards, computers, pitched instruments, unpitched instruments

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29.) Explore varied composing and arranging techniques of composers.


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30.) Use composition to demonstrate understanding of musical elements.


• Melody

• Rhythm

• Harmony

• Form

• Texture

• Expressive elements

• Timbre

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31.) Recognize and practice accepted audience behavior. (See Appendix A.)


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32.) Recognize and practice accepted performance behavior. (See Appendix B.)


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33.) Refine and apply criteria for evaluating music performances and compositions.


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34.) Make valid musical decisions about their individual and ensemble performances.


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35.) Understand relationships between music and the other arts as well as disciplines outside of the arts.


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36.) Understand music in relation to history and culture.


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