Choral Music: Grade 1

Music Performance

Creating Music

Music Literacy

Critical Response to Music

History and Culture

Making Connections

The student will sing and perform on instruments a variety of music, alone and with others.

The student will improvise, compose, and arrange music within specified guidelines.

The student will read and notate music.

The student will listen to, describe, analyze, and evaluate music and music performances.

The student will examine and perform music from a variety of historical periods and cultures.

The student will make connections between music and other arts disciplines, other content areas, and the world.

Singing

Playing

Improvising

Composing and Arranging

Use a system (for example, rhythm syllables, numbers) to read, write, and perform rhythm patterns including quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests.

Use a system (for example, solfège syllables, numbers, note names) to read, write, and perform a melodic line in the pentatonic mode.

Identify basic symbols such as staff, bar lines, measures, double bar line, repeat sign, and dynamics.

Use icons and/or simple symbols to write musical ideas.

Analyzing

Evaluating

Sing a diverse repertoire of music from various cultures.

Use personal vocabulary to describe voices, instruments, music notation, and stylistic differences in music of various genres from the diverse cultures of the world.

Integrate music and storytelling by creating sound stories and adding sound effects to stories and poems.

Integrate the subject matter of non-arts classes into the music class by singing songs that reinforce language arts and mathematics curricula.

Describe music careers in familiar settings.

Discuss the various tasks that musicians carry out in their jobs.

Discuss the fact that music supplies, repairs, and replacements cost money.

Explore career options in music and recognize which options are a source of personal income.

Sing songs and play games representative of daily real-life experiences.

Discuss ways that activities performed in music classes can be used in other daily activities.

Compare and contrast various places where music is performed and identify appropriate audience behaviors for those performances.

Echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.

Sing songs in a developmentally appropriate range, match the pitch, and maintain a steady tempo.

Speak, chant, sing, and move to demonstrate awareness of beat, tempo, and dynamics.

Sing developmentally appropriate songs representing a variety of cultures.

Sing in groups, using good posture and matching dynamic levels.

Explore a variety of pitched and unpitched instruments as well as other sound sources, including body percussion.

Improvise songs and rhythm chants with words and syllables.

Differentiate between two or three rhythmic variations or melodic embellishments of phrases in familiar songs when presented aurally.

Use body percussion and classroom instruments to improvise simple rhythmic accompaniments.

Demonstrate creativity by composing and using symbols to represent music beats.

Demonstrate awareness of contrast and repetition in rhyme or song.

Identify examples of musical forms such as call and response and verse and refrain.

Use movement and personal vocabulary to describe music from diverse cultures.

Identify and describe basic musical elements such as pitch, tempo, and dynamics.

Identify the sources of a variety of sounds such as environmental, instrumental, and vocal (child, male, and female).

Use creative and choreographed movement in response to changes in beat, tempo, dynamics, and the lyrics.

Identify specific elements of musical works that evoke emotion and response.

Identify his or her preference for specific musical works and performances.