Music: Grades 4, 5

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.

Sing, alone and with others, with correct pitch, rhythm, timbre, diction, posture and range.

Play alone and with others on instruments (pitched and unpitched) with good rhythmic and ensemble skills.

Sing and play two-part rounds, partner songs, simple descants, unison songs and simple accompaniments.

Develop sight-reading skills, using simple melodic and rhythmic patterns.

Distinguish the sounds produced by woodwind, brass, percussion, string and keyboard instruments.

Demonstrate rhythmic independence by combining beat and rhythm patterns in solo/ensemble situations/movement.

Explore simple meter groupings (aurally, visually in notation and through conducting patterns).

Make music by reading notation and musical symbols.

Notate simple melodic and rhythmic patterns, using standard musical notation.

Identify ways in which music can express, non-verbally, various emotions or events.

Create and perform pieces using graphic/iconic notation and standard musical notation to express an idea or concept.

Use correct musical terminology in discussing and responding to music.

Create a project that shows understanding of an element of dance that is shared with another discipline (e.g., pattern in dance and visual arts).

Communicate an understanding of music elements as they relate to basic elements of other arts disciplines.

Read, write and perform musical accompaniments.

Discuss and demonstrate relationships of music to other disciplines: (e.g., reading - the ongoing, horizontal flow of words akin to the movement of music; social studies - how music of a culture helps to define and understand that culture; mathematics - the rhythm of music is expressed numerically; science - the movement of sound as a physical phenomenon).

Discuss different motivating factors which have inspired the creation of music, (e.g., historical figures, nature, events, literature, drama).

Apply learned musical elements (e.g., rhythm, melody, form, timbre, tempo, dynamics) to compose a simple melody.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic phrase endings, ostinato patterns and variations on familiar themes.

Identify theme and variation and verse/refrain.

Identify four orchestral families (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion).

Identify at least two individual instruments from each orchestral family by sight and sound.

Identify vocal and instrumental ensembles (e.g., duet, choir, symphony orchestra, band)

Using appropriate musical terminology, compare/contrast various styles and genres of music.

Study and perform music from various cultures with an emphasis on historical and cultural connections.

Study and perform music representative of the cultures found in New Mexico.

Identify specific musical characteristics unique to a country or a cultural style of music.

Discuss and identify how instruments have developed from natural materials to man-made materials.

Discuss similarities and differences among folk instruments across cultures.

Discuss how the development of electronic instruments has influenced contemporary music.

Understand how music technology is an extension of the traditional music curriculum.

Understand and exhibit proper concert etiquette.

Model respectful behavior, understanding the dynamics of what it takes to be a performer.

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