General Music: Grade 2

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Refine and complete artistic work

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas (e.g. beat, meter, and rhythm).

With appropriate guidance, generate musical ideas in multiple tonalities (e.g. major, minor, modal, and pentatonic) and meters (e.g. duple, triple, simple, and compound).

Demonstrate and explain personal reasons for selecting musical ideas (e.g. patterns and ideas).

Use notation to document personal or collective musical ideas (e.g. sequencing).

Interpret and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to revise personal music.

Present a final version of personal or collective musical ideas, utilizing elements of expression, to peers or informal audience.

With appropriate guidance, demonstrate and state personal interest in varied musical selections.

Demonstrate knowledge of musical concepts in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance (e.g. meter and tonality).

Read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns using notation.

Demonstrate an understanding of musical concepts (e.g. physical, verbal, or written response-- understanding of musical concepts and how creators use them to convey expressive intent).

Apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performance.

With an appropriate level of independence use suggested strategies in rehearsal to address interpretive challenges of music.

Perform music with appropriate expression and technique (e.g. posture, tone, and breath support).

Perform appropriately for the audience and occasion.

List and explain personal musical interests.

Demonstrate and identify how specific musical concepts are used in various styles of music (e.g. meter and tonality).

Demonstrate knowledge of expressive attributes and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent (e.g. tempo, dynamics, mood, and emotion).

Apply teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.

Express personal preferences in music.

Explore various uses of music in daily experiences (e.g. songs of celebration, game songs, marches, T.V., movie, and video game sound tracks, dance music, and work songs).

Explore relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. such as dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).

Explore how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.