Grade 4

Create Perform Respond Music Literacy
  • Improvise within various styles
  • Compose a simple instrumental piece and/or and accompaniment to text
  • Express form through
  • composition
  • Sing partner songs
  • Sing 3-part rounds
  • Sing expressively with blend and balance using proper phrasing
  • Sing songs from memory and notation: duple and triple meter, major and minor keys
  • Participate in choral singing demonstrating:
    • Expression
    • Blend
    • Breathing/Phrasing
    • Dynamics
    • Interpretation
    • Diction/Articulation
    • Posture
  • Respond to cues of the conductor:
    • Starting & stopping
    • Balance
    • Dynamics
    • tempo

 
 
 
 
 

  • Recognize theme and variations
  • Distinguish between melody and harmony
  • Recognize major and minor tonalities
  • Devise simple criteria for evaluating performances and compositions using musical terminology for quality and style
  • Evaluate their own performances
  • Follow and/or create a listening map
  • Associate music with specific historical periods and composers
  • Recognize, categorize & describe timbre of  orchestral instruments

 

  • Notate music using standard notation
  • Identify and define symbols for dynamics
  • Sing and play from a score
  • Read standard notation for quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter notes and half notes, dotted half notes, whole notes, whole rests, four sixteenth notes
  • Take rhythmic dictation suing known elements
  • Understand simple meters and time signatures
  • Identify note names of treble clef
  • Follow a score with multiple verses
  • Identify repeated notes, steps, skips

 

4th graders may have the opportunity to perform in instrumental and vocal ensembles with an emphasis on basic skills.