Using the State Curriculum: Music, Grade 2

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	Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education	Historical, Cultural, and Social Context	Creative Expression and Production	Aesthetics and Criticism

Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to music.

1. Develop awareness of the characteristics of musical sounds and silence, and the diversity of sounds in the environment

Classify band and orchestra instruments by sight according to methods of sound production such as blow, pluck and bow, strike, and shake
Identify call-and-response and verse-and-refrain when presented aurally
Listen to, perform, and describe music that illustrates fast/slow, loud/soft (quiet), long/short, high/low
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Identify and describe environmental sounds
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Listen to, perform, and describe music in major and minor modes

2. Experience performance through singing, playing instruments, and listening to performances of others

Use the head voice to sing a varied repertoire of songs, singing games, and songs with instrumental accompaniment, matching pitches within an age-appropriate vocal range
Describe the differences among adult male voices, adult female voices, and children's voices
Echo a variety of short rhythmic and melodic patterns (quarter note, two eighths connected, half note, whole note, and quarter rest)
Demonstrate the ability to maintain a steady beat through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments
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Perform and identify simple and compound meters
Sing one part of a 2-part round while the teacher sings the other part
Perform an ostinato while other students perform a contrasting ostinato
Use good singing and playing posture as demonstrated by the teacher
Sing from memory a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles from diverse world cultures
Listen to a group of voices singing and differentiate between blending voices and voices which are not blending
Describe and demonstrate appropriate audience behavior

Create movement patterns for music and describe the relationships of movement to music
Demonstrate ability to maintain steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement
Demonstrate sequences of movement in singing games
Identify meter in aural music examples and convey the meter through movement

4. Experiment with standard and individually created symbols to represent sounds

Identify and apply 2, 3, 4, and 6 as representing meter in aural and visual examples
Experiment with standard and non-standard notation to represent simple melodies or melodic patterns
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August 6, 2008