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Using the State Curriculum: Music, Grade 4

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Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education:

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Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education

Standard 1.0 Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education

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

Indicator

  • 1. Develop awareness of the characteristics of musical sounds and the diversity of sounds in the environment
Objectives
  1. Explain characteristics of band and orchestra instruments to support their belonging to the string, woodwind, brass, or percussion family
  2. Identify theme and variation form in music when presented aurally
  3. Read music notation including dynamics (p, f, mp, and mf), tempo (allegro, adagio, and moderato), and meter (2/2, 2/4, 4/4, 3/4, 6/8, and 5/4)
  4. Describe environmental sounds heard, with attention to rhythm
  5. Listen to and distinguish among voices as children's, adult male, and adult female

Indicator

  • 2. Experience performance through singing and playing instruments in general, vocal, and instrumental settings, and listening to performances of others
Objectives
  1. Perform accurately simple rhythms at sight from standard notation: tied notes (whole, half, and quarter combinations)
  2. Sing and play a variety of music with accurate intonation and characteristic timbre
  3. Sing partner songs and songs with descants accurately
  4. Perform rhythmically and melodically correct ostinatos or chordal accompaniment patterns while other students sing or play contrasting parts
  5. Exhibit appropriate performance behavior

Indicator

  • 3. Respond to music through movement
Objectives
  1. Perform singing games and traditional dances from a variety of world cultures
  2. Conduct music in four meter

Indicator

  • 4. Experiment with standard and individually created symbols to represent sounds
Objectives
  1. Read standard chord symbols and play the represented chords on classroom instruments (I and V chords)
  2. Write simple rhythm patterns from dictation using quarter, notes, two connected eighth notes, half notes, whole notes and corresponding rests in 2/4 and 3/4 time
  3. Create and notate short melodies on the treble staff, using standard notation (2 measures)
  4. Read and perform simple pitch and rhythm notation on the treble staff in the key of C major, using solfeggio or a comparable system

August 6, 2008