Grade 1 - Music

Grade 1 Music

SKILLS

Rhythm

Melody

Harmony

Form

Expression

Demonstrates music listening skills

Distinguishes environmental sounds: school, home, weather, animals, machines

Identifies and compares sounds (musical and non-musical): high-low, loud-soft, short-long, slow-fast, up-down

Distinguishes voice sounds

Distinguishes among the sounds of common musical instruments

Is an attentive member of an audience

Understands and appreciates the effect of music that is high-low, loud-soft, short-long, slow-fast, up-down

Is aware of and enjoys seasonal, holiday and ethnic music

Follows a story told by music

Demonstrates skills in music-based movement

Mimes animals, machines and other sounds

Moves to the beat in music through walking, running, hopping, galloping and skipping, as appropriate to the psychomotor development of the students

Responds to beat through action and simple body percussion

Performs simple action songs and singing games

Improvises movement for high-low, loud-soft, short-long, slow-fast

Responds to music through movement in an individual manner

Demonstrates skills in singing

Distinguishes between children's speaking and singing voices

Responds to tone matching and Echoes games

Responds to so-mi hand signals

Responds to hand signals for so-mi-la

Sings, in tune, many rhythmic and melodic songs, singing games and action songs

Experiences singing alone and in a group

Sings accurately in unison

Responds appropriately and with confidence to a conductor's signals

Demonstrates skills in playing instruments

Explores the sound of various musical instruments

Plays a steady beat using rhythm instruments

Discovers that some instruments play low notes and some play high notes

Echoes rhythm patterns

Accompanies singing with appropriate body percussion and movement (beat, accent, rhythm patterns) and transfers these to instruments

Plays rhythm instruments correctly

Accompanies songs, stories and poems with appropriate instrumental effects

Demonstrates skills on Orff instruments

Demonstrates skills in reading and writing music

Recognises "ta" and "ti-ti" rhythm patterns

Recognises the following rhythm patterns on large charts, and follows from left to right: (ta, ti-ti, rest [Z])

Echoes clap and chant written rhythm patterns

Responds to simple instrumental scores on large charts

Responds to hand signals and staff notation of "so-mi", "so-mi-la"

Reads repeat signs, p (soft) and f (loud)

Draws "stick" rhythm patterns on paper

Builds "so-mi-la" patterns on a simple staff

Demonstrates skills in creating music

Uses suitable sound effects for poems and songs

Uses instruments to create sounds of high-low, loud-soft, slow-fast, short-long, up-down

Creates singing "conversations" (tone matching)

Attitudes -"Performance is an active process involving the development and application of musical skills, knowledge and perceptions" (from Program Rationale and Philosophy)

Demonstrates active involvement in personal development of musical skills and concepts

Demonstrates an understanding of musical concepts: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and expression as related to skill development

Demonstrates that music may move to a steady beat

Demonstrates that music may move evenly or unevenly

Understands that music is made up of long sounds, short sounds and silences

Understands that there are strong and weak beats in music

Demonstrates that long sounds, short sounds and silences may be grouped to form rhythm patterns

Recognises that sounds may be high or low

Recognises that sounds are also in the middle

Understands that a sequence of sounds may move from low to high, high to low, or stay the same

Understands that a melody is made up of sounds organised in patterns

Understands that melodies are based on scales: major, minor and pentatonic (5-tone)

Understands that two or more sounds can occur simultaneously

Understands that melodies may be accompanied by harmony

Demonstrates that music can be organised into sections - alike or different

Understands that a section may be repeated (verse, chorus)

Understands that music is organised into phrases

Demonstrates that the beat in music may be fast or slow (tempo)

Understands that music may be soft (p) or loud (f), dynamics

Understands that music may express our feelings

Recognises that musical instruments have different tonal qualities

Recognises that the human voice has different tonal qualities

Understands that music reflects our feelings about holidays, seasons, our country, and cultural heritage

Understands that the words of a song are very important to the understanding of the song (text)