State Curriculum - Music

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Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.: Standard 3.0 Creative Expression and Production: Students will demonstrate the ability to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively.:
1. Develop confidence in the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound
1. Develop confidence in the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound
1. Develop confidence in the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound
1. Develop confidence in the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound
1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound
1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound
1. Demonstrate the ability to improvise music through experimentation with sound
1. Explore musical ideas through simple improvisations
1. Explore musical ideas through simple improvisations
1. Explore musical ideas through simple improvisations
a. Experiment with sound patterns through exploration of classroom instruments
a. Sort classroom instruments by sound and playing technique
a. Improvise sounds to enhance stories and songs
a. Improvise instrumental sounds to enhance songs and stories
a. Use selected classroom instruments or voices to improvise short melodies that answer in the same style to given rhythmic and melodic phrases (Q & A)
a. Use instruments or voices to improvise simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments
a. Improvise countermelodies, using familiar repertoire
a. Improvise simple rhythmic and harmonic accompaniments for given pentatonic melodies based on the major keys of C, F, and G
a. Improvise short melodies over given rhythmic accompaniments, maintaining consistent style, meter, and tonality (8 measures)
a. Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic variations or embellishments on given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major keys (pentatonic - black keys only on keyboard instruments; major - keys of C, F, and G for keyboard instruments and keys of G and D for guitar)
b. Use the voice to improvise animal and environmental sounds
b. Improvise simple text (one or two words) by filling in the blanks of familiar songs with other selected words to create new meaning
b. Improvise alternate texts for phrases in familiar songs
b. Use the voice to improvise simple melodic phrases, such as scat singing, street calls, and blues
b. Improvise vocal or instrumental music using nontraditional sounds (e.g., environmental, standard instrument being used in non-traditional ways)
b. Improvise vocal or instrumental music using at least three traditional sounds
b. Improvise vocal or instrumental music, using current technology
b. Improvise vocal or instrumental music using current technology
b. Improvise vocal or instrumental music using current technology
b. Improvise music in at least one performance medium using acoustic or electronic sound sources (no more than 16 measures)
2. Investigate composing music through experimentation with sound and the tools of composition
2. Investigate composing music through experimentation with sound and the tools of composition
2. Investigate composing music through experimentation with sound and the tools of composition
2. Develop the ability to compose and arrange music by experimenting with sound and the tools of composition
2. Develop the ability to compose and arrange music by experimenting with sound and the tools of composition
2. Develop the ability to compose and arrange music by experimenting with sound and the tools of composition
2. Develop the ability to compose and arrange music by experimenting with sound and the tools of composition
2. Preserve musical ideas through simple compositions and arrangements
2. Preserve musical ideas through simple compositions and arrangements
2. Preserve musical ideas through simple compositions and arrangements
a. Explore the use of pictorial representations for sound
a. Create a sound piece by interpreting visual representations of sound, using a variety of modalities, such as classroom instruments, environmental sounds, the voice, body percussion, and found objects
a. Create pictorial representations of sounds to form a sound piece
a. Interpret iconic representation for sound in sound pieces and song accompaniments
a. Use environmental sounds to enhance the mood and /or words of a musical composition
a. Compose and notate graphically a sound composition using environmental sounds
a. Compose, arrange, and notate music to accompany readings or dramatizations
a. Use traditional and non-traditional notation as a means of retaining musical ideas
a. Arrange pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written
a. Use electronic technology to arrange pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written (no more than 16 measures)
b. Use body percussion to create sound patterns
b. Create rhythmic sound patterns using body percussion
b. Use the voice and classroom instruments to create simple rhythmic and melodic patterns
b. Create simple rhythmic and melodic patterns, using the voice or classroom instruments
b. Create simple rhythm patterns which show contrast: whole notes and whole rests, half notes and half rests, quarter notes and quarter rests, two eighth notes connected (2 measures)
b. Create simple melodic patterns that show contrast: whole notes and whole rests, half notes and half rests, quarter notes and quarter rests, two eighth notes connected, tied notes (2 measures)
b. Create simple rhythmic and melodic patterns that show contrast: whole notes and whole rests, half notes and half rests, quarter notes and quarter rests, two eighth notes connected, sixteenth notes, and tied notes (4 measures)
b. Create a sound composition based on a literary work, a place, a personal experience, or other selected subject
b. Create a short original musical composition using contemporary compositional techniques or modern technologies (at least 16 measures)
b. Create a composition using formal, free form, serial, chance, or original compositional techniques (at least 60 seconds in length)
    c. Create short ostinato patterns to enhance given melodies
c. Compose and use non-traditional notation to preserve ostinatos which enhance given melodies
c. Compose and use traditional notation to preserve ostinatos that enhance given melodies
c. Compose and use traditional notation to preserve descants that enhance given melodies
c. Compose and use traditional notation to preserve chordal patterns that enhance given melodies
     
 

 

August 6, 2008