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Perform |
Respond |
Music Literacy |
- Improvise within various styles
- Compose a simple instrumental piece and/or and accompaniment to text
- Express form through
- composition
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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4th graders may have the opportunity to perform in instrumental and vocal ensembles with an emphasis on basic skills.
