State Curriculum - Music

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Grade K Grade 1 Grade 2
Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education: Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to music.: Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education: Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to music.: Standard 1.0 Perceiving, Performing, and Responding: Aesthetic Education: 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
1. Develop awareness of the characteristics of musical sounds and silence, and the diversity of sounds in the environment
1. Develop awareness of the characteristics of musical sounds and silence, and the diversity of sounds in the environment
a. Experiment with a range of classroom instruments such as wood blocks, triangles, rhythm sticks, maracas, guiros, jingle bells, sand blocks, cymbals, tambourines, and hand drums
a. Classify classroom instruments by sight and sound such as wood blocks, triangles, rhythm sticks, maracas, guiros, jingle bells, sand blocks, cymbals, tambourines, and hand drums
a. Classify band and orchestra instruments by sight according to methods of sound production such as blow, pluck and bow, strike, and shake
b. Identify repeated patterns heard in music
b. Identify same and different patterns heard in music
b. Identify call-and-response and verse-and-refrain when presented aurally
c. Identify sounds as fast/slow, loud/soft (quiet), long/short, high/low
c. Compare musical sounds: fast/slow, loud/soft (quiet), long/short, high/low
c. Listen to, perform, and describe music that illustrates fast/slow, loud/soft (quiet), long/short, high/low
d. Explore and discuss sounds heard in selected environments such as classroom, playground, field trip, cafeteria
d. Use and simulate environmental sounds
d. Identify and describe environmental sounds
  e. Listen to and perform music in major and minor modes
e. Listen to, perform, and describe music in major and minor modes
2. Experience performance through singing, playing instruments, and listening to performances of others
2. Experience performance through singing, playing instruments, and listening to performances of others
2. Experience performance through singing, playing instruments, and listening to performances of others
a. Experiment with vocal sounds that use a variety of pitches: singing in an age-appropriate range, speaking, whispering, and calling
a. Demonstrate vocal qualities, such as head voice and chest voice and sing with high and low vocal sounds, matching pitches within an age-appropriate vocal range
a. 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
b. Listen to examples of adult male voices, adult female voices, and children's voices
b. Distinguish among adult male voices, female voices, and children's voices in aural examples
b. Describe the differences among adult male voices, adult female voices, and children's voices
c. Wait and listen before imitating rhythmic and melodic patterns
c. Demonstrate ability to echo short rhythmic and melodic patterns (quarter note, two eighths, and quarter rest)
c. Echo a variety of short rhythmic and melodic patterns (quarter note, two eighths connected, half note, whole note, and quarter rest)
d. Explore steady beat through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments
d. Practice steady beat through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments
d. Demonstrate the ability to maintain a steady beat through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments
e. Explore beat groupings (meter) through singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments
e. Demonstrate meter through chanting, and playing classroom instruments
e. Perform and identify simple and compound meters
f. Explore use of simple 2- or 4-beat rhythmic ostinatos
f. Perform simple 2- or 4-beat rhythmic ostinatos
f. Sing one part of a 2-part round while the teacher sings the other part
g. Sing or play in groups, matching tempo (fast and slow)
g. Sing a variety of songs with the class or individually, independent of the teacher's or recorded voice(s)
g. Perform an ostinato while other students perform a contrasting ostinato
h. Experience as an audience member a variety of concerts, plays, and other age-appropriate programming
h. Sing or play in groups, matching dynamic levels (soft and loud)
h. Use good singing and playing posture as demonstrated by the teacher
  i. Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
i. Sing from memory a varied repertoire of songs representing genres and styles from diverse world cultures
    j. Listen to a group of voices singing and differentiate between blending voices and voices which are not blending
    k. Describe and demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
3. Respond to music through movement
3. Respond to music through movement
3. Respond to music through movement
a. Demonstrate understanding of personal space while moving to music
a. Demonstrate musical characteristics through movement to music
a. Create movement patterns for music and describe the relationships of movement to music
b. Explore and recognize steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement
b. Demonstrate steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement
b. Demonstrate ability to maintain steady beat through locomotor and non-locomotor movement
c. Follow simple directions or verbal cues in singing games
c. Follow musical cues to sequence movement in singing games
c. Demonstrate sequences of movement in singing games
d. Use a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements to show meter
d. Respond to meter with a variety of locomotor and non-locomotor movements
d. Identify meter in aural music examples and convey the meter through movement
4. Experiment with standard and individually created symbols to represent sounds
4. Experiment with standard and individually created symbols to represent sounds
4. Experiment with standard and individually created symbols to represent sounds
a. Interpret picture symbols representing musical characteristics
a. Use stem notation to read and write rhythm patterns including quarter note, quarter rest, and two eighth notes connected
a. Identify and apply 2, 3, 4, and 6 as representing meter in aural and visual examples
b. Interpret stem notation used to represent rhythms
b. Relate melodic contour to standard and non-standard notation
b. Experiment with standard and non-standard notation to represent simple melodies or melodic patterns
 

 

August 6, 2008