Music: Grade 2

Sing using appropriate tone quality, posture, diction, and breathing and play accompaniment using correct mallet technique.

Improvise melodies and rhythms using the pentatonic scale.

Listen to music of diverse cultures and styles and identify distinguishing characteristics.

Using simple music vocabulary, describe the musical elements that contribute to performance excellence.

Relate music/notation symbols to a written melodic line.

Compare and contrast music examples from different cultures, times, and places.

Describe the musical characteristics that affect moods, responses, and feelings.

Identify musical expression as it relates to other subject areas.

Describe the ways that music affects everyday life.

Music, Beginner Keyboard

Strings, Beginner and Intermediate Level

Sing and play alone and with others a variety of songs using appropriate techniques and dynamics.

Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics, phrasing, and interpretation.

Sing and chant ostinatos and call and responses.

Students will be able to play simple ostinato patterns.

Improvise short melodies by singing or playing on pitched and un-pitched instruments.

Improvise rhythms and accompaniments by playing instruments.

Create a song by using rhyming words and improvising "answers" in the same style.

Demonstrate perceptual skill by moving to, answering questions about, or describing aural examples of music from diverse cultures.

Interpret a music selection with appropriate movements or dramatization.

Compare the sounds of different instruments of orchestras, bands, and other cultures.

Identify AB and ABA form.

Explain musical elements that relate to a successful performance.

Recognize excellence in the quality of a vocal or choral performance.

Perform and evaluate individual and/or group performance.

Recognize increasingly difficult music symbols that demonstrate rhythm notation (i.e., eighth rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest).

Read and respond to simple notated melodies, rhythms, and dynamic.

Compose a short song within specified guidelines.

Listen to music from various cultures and ethnic groups and compare and contrast performance styles.

Perform music from various cultures and create musical instruments from various cultures.

Discuss the role and function of music and musicians.

Perform using instruments and timbres of instrumental families from various cultures.

Compare the feelings expressed by specific examples of music.

Interpret the idea or story of a music selection through movement, dance, and dramatization (role-play).

Respond to and describe music by painting or drawing a picture, or writing a story.

Identify ideas and stories contained in the language of songs and relate them to the appropriate subject area.

Understand word patterns and rhymes within a song text.

Recognize the sequential arrangement of sections in a work of music.

Describe various ways that people make music.

Understand the presence and uses of music in everyday life.

Describe different music styles and genres.

Identify careers in music.

Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for a musical performance.

Play a variety of music selections alone or in groups.

Create and perform music using simple melodies and rhythms.

Listen to, describe, and respond to short works of music.

Describe qualities of successful keyboard performances.

Recognize and identify music notation and symbols.

Recognize that music reflects the culture, time, and place of its origin.

Experience a variety of moods and feelings expressed by different keyboard selections.

Recognize connections between music, the other arts, and other subject areas.

Recognize ways that music and musicians are encountered in everyday life.

Sing and play a variety of music selections alone or in groups.

Create and perform music using simple melodies and rhythms.

Listen to, describe, or respond to short works of music.

Describe qualities of successful string performances.

Recognize and identify music notation and symbols.

Recognize that music reflects the culture, time, and place of its origin.

Experience a variety of moods and feelings expressed by different string repertoire.

Recognize connections between music, the other arts, and other subject areas.

Recognize ways that music and musicians are encountered in everyday life.

Use proper posture and hand position while sitting at the keyboard.

Demonstrate understanding of high, medium, and low pitch ranges in selected keyboard repertoire.

Create melodic motives on the keyboard to illustrate up and down.

Improvise a composition using staccato and legato melodies.

Describe characteristics of a melody or rhythm used in a keyboard composition.

Describe basic elements of form in music.

Identify expressive qualities of a keyboard performance: soft, loud, fast, slow, etc.

Evaluate accuracy of rhythm, melody, and style in keyboard performances.

Recognize music symbols that demonstrate rhythmic notation and values (i.e., quarter note, quarter rest, eighth note bar lines, and measures).

Know the letter names of line and space notes on treble and bass clefs.

Demonstrate knowledge of music symbols/icons by playing on the keyboard.

Listen to and perform music from various cultures, and ethnic groups.

Understand the role of music and musicians in selected cultures, times, and places.

Compare and contrast emotions or moods expressed when listening to or performing specific examples of music.

Know that keyboard selections can convey various ideas or stories.

Compare ways a composer uses dynamics to tell a musical story with the way an author, a painter, a mime, or a dancer tells a story.

Analyze the sequential arrangement of phrases or sections in a work of music compared to the order of events in a story.

Know various ways that people make music.

Analyze the presence, use, and effect of music in everyday life.

Demonstrate beginning knowledge of a variety of music styles.

Compare and contrast the qualifications for various musical careers.

Use proper posture and hand position while holding stringed instrument.

Demonstrate understanding of high, medium and low pitch ranges in selected stringed repertoire.

Identify and play scales.

Create melodic motives on the instrument to illustrate up and down.

Improvise a composition using staccato and legato melodies.

Describe characteristics of a melody or rhythm used in a string composition.

Describe basic elements of form in music.

Identify expressive qualities of a string performance: soft, loud, fast, slow, etc.

Evaluate accuracy of rhythm, melody, and style in stringed performances.

Recognize music symbols that demonstrate rhythmic notation (i.e., quarter note, quarter rest, eighth note).

Know the letter names of line and space notes on treble and bass clefs.

Identify note/rest values, bar lines and measures.

Demonstrate knowledge of music symbols/icons by playing on respective stringed instrument.

Listen to and perform music from various cultures, and ethnic groups.

Understand the role of music and musicians in selected cultures, times, and places.

Compare and contrast emotions or moods expressed when listening to or performing specific examples of music.

Know that stringed selections can convey various ideas or stories.

Compare ways a composer uses musical elements to tell a musical story like the way an author, a painter, a mime, or a dancer tells a story.

Compare ways music and other subjects are related.

Know various ways that people make music.

Analyze the presence, use, and effect of music in everyday life.

Demonstrate beginning knowledge of a variety of music styles.

Compare and contrast the qualifications for various musical careers.