Grade 1

Create Perform Respond Music Literacy
  • Improvise pentatonic melodies
  • Improvise simple rhythmic phrases based on familiar text and/or melodies
  • Create with known rhythms (quarter note, paired eighth notes, quarter rests) and pentatonic scale
  • Create story accompaniment
  • Sing while maintaining steady beat with body rhythms or on instruments
  • Sing pentatonic melodies
  • Reproduce the tonic pitch (resting tone) in melodies
  • Sing simple intervals: sol, mi, la
  • Play beat vs. rhythm using percussion instruments and body rhythms
  • Sing with good posture
  • Sing with correct pitch, rhythm, expression and tone quality
  • Reproduce patterns on pitched and non-pitched instrument
  • Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
  • Explain personal musical preferences using musical terminology
  • Relate the sound of an instruments to mood, idea, and character
  • Recognize musical phrases that are same/different/similar
  • Describe and analyze musical performances using musical terminology
  • Aurally recognize sol, mi, la tones
  • Draw the contour of simple melodies that move up, down or have repeated notes
  • Follow written representation of melodic contour
  • Read notated rhythms using quarter notes, paired eighth notes, and quarter rests
  • Identify patterns