Music: Grades 2, 3

Music

Learn and develop the essential skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts.

Use dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts to express ideas.

Integrate understanding of visual and performing arts by seeking connections and parallels among arts disciplines as well as other content areas.

Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamics of the creative process.

Observe, discuss, analyze and make critical judgments about artistic works.

Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

Demonstrate knowledge about how technology and invention have historically influenced artists and offered new possibilities for expression.

Contribute to communities by sharing expertise in dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts and by participating in the activities of cultural institutions.

Sing and play instruments with appropriate techniques while maintaining a steady beat.

Identify timbre (tone quality) of various families of instruments.

Acquire beat and rhythmic competency skills.

Identify basic musical notation and symbols

Understand how music expresses ideas.

Identify terms common to the various art forms.

Explore connections between the elements of dance and other content areas.

Develop musical accompaniments related to other art forms or content areas.

Identify how music can support and enhance other disciplines.

Understand why music is created and how it is used.

Understand how music is created.

Identify simple music forms when presented aurally.

Identify the sounds of more familiar instruments, as well as treble and bass voices.

Use appropriate terminology to discuss responses and reactions to particular musical works.

Show increased awareness of diverse peoples and cultures through visual and performing arts.

Understand how various instruments have evolved.

Use appropriate music technology.

Model appropriate audience behavior at live concert performances.

Participate in appropriate school programs.

Share and develop cultural experiences.

Perform a simple accompaniment (e.g., body percussion, rhythm band instruments, Orff instruments) while singing a simple song.

Develop appropriate singing techniques and range (from D below the staff to fourth line D).

Make music using body percussion, Orff instruments, and world folk instruments.

Demonstrate rhythmic competency through reading, performing and creating rhythms/movements.

Identify simple rhythmic and melodic notation.

Recognize and respond to different genres of music.

Identify the relationship between music elements and basic elements of other arts disciplines.

Identify movement as described in a variety of content areas (e.g., pathways and force of weather; shapes and actions of animals; intersections, pathways and interruptions of transportation; shapes and spatial relationships of geometry) and respond through movement.

Develop ostinato patterns based on key concepts or facts related to another content area.

Identify commonalities (e.g., terms, concepts, media) between music and other disciplines.

Identify the role and purpose music plays in daily life (e.g., entertainment, religion, civic affairs, military.)

Identify different careers in music.

Perform and label simple forms in music such as: AB, ABA, rondo, theme and variation.

Improvise on an existing melody or accompaniment.

Explore a variety of sound sources for composing or improvising accompaniments or "found sound" pieces.

Identify AB, ABA and rondo.

Understand how different instruments generate sound, including: shakers (maracas, jingle bells), scrapers (guiro, sand blocks), struck instruments (triangle, wood block), drums and blown instruments (recorders).

Distinguish various singing voices (e.g., soprano, bass).

Using appropriate musical terminology, discuss and rationalize personal preferences about music in general and as related to a specific piece of music.

Perform music from various cultures and discuss same and different elements in each.

Perform songs and musical games from New Mexico cultures.

Discuss and classify instruments based on origins.

Use recording and playback technology and music skill training software.

Understand and exhibit proper concert etiquette.

Prepare and perform age-appropriate material at school and community-based programs.

Celebrate customs, cultural traditions and American holidays, using music at or from home and in other social situations