Music: Grade 5

Perceiving/Knowing/Creating

Producing/Performing

Responding/Reflecting

Explore and identify musical instruments from different historical periods and world cultures.

Listen to, identify, and respond to music of different composers, historical periods and world cultures.

Identify terms related to form (e.g., D.C. and D.S. al Fine; D.C. and D.S. al Coda; repeat signs, first and second endings).

Recognize and identify longer music forms (e.g., sonata, 12-bar blues, and theme and variations).

Identify elements of music including tonality, dynamics, tempo and meter, using music vocabulary.

Differentiate between melody and harmony.

Identify patterns of whole and half steps in a major scale.

Sing a varied repertoire with accurate rhythm and pitch, appropriate expressive qualities, good posture and breath control.

Perform, on instruments, a varied repertoire with accurate rhythm and pitch, appropriate expressive qualities, good posture and breath control.

Improvise, compose and arrange music.

Use technology and the media arts to create and perform music.

Read, write and perform using sixteenth through whole note values including syncopated rhythms and dotted-half notes in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4meter.

Read, write and perform diatonic melodies and the major scale on the treble staff.

Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette at live performances.

Justify personal preferences for certain musical pieces, performances, composers and musical genres both orally and in writing.

Discuss contributions of musical elements to aesthetic qualities in performances of self and others.

Describe how the process of learning in music connects to learning in other arts and other subject areas.

Defend interpretations of music via dance, drama and visual art using appropriate vocabulary.

Consider and articulate the influence of technology on music careers.

Develop and apply criteria for critiquing more complex performances of live and recorded music.