Instrumental Music: Grade 2

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 cultures and stylistic periods.

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

Singing

Performing

Improvising

Composing and Arranging

Read and notate whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes and corresponding rests in duple meter.

Use a system (for example, syllables, numbers, note names) to read and notate simple pitch in the clef appropriate for his or her instrument.

Recognize and notate traditional and nontraditional musical symbols.

Analyzing

Evaluating

Use personal and music vocabulary to respond to music from different cultures and historical periods.

Use personal and music vocabulary to respond to music of different styles and genres.

Recognize common music terms found in other arts disciplines (for example, tone, rhythm, volume, form).

Recognize common music terms found in non-arts disciplines (for example, genre, program, dynamics, pitch).

Identify music careers and the skills that these careers require.

Identify the different work that is involved in various types of musical performances.

Identify where and when we hear music.

Sing the correct rhythms on pitch using neutral syllables or solfège while maintaining a steady tempo and meter.

Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics and phrasing.

Sing in groups and respond to the cues of a conductor.

Play pitched and unpitched instruments while maintaining good posture and playing position and demonstrating good breath support or good bow or stick control.

Play simple melodies by ear on a range of classroom instruments.

Demonstrate the characteristic tone quality of the particular instrument while playing with accurate notes, rhythms, and intonation and maintaining a steady tempo.

Perform on instruments a variety of music alone and in groups.

Play on an instrument beginning-level music by ear when given short melodic phrases or familiar tunes.

Play and embellish simple rhythmic and melodic patterns by ear.

Improvise simple harmonic patterns and rhythmic accompaniments.

Play and embellish rhythmic and melodic patterns within a given meter and tonality.

Compose short rhythmic and tonal patterns and accompaniments using symbols to represent notes or beats.

Arrange simple rhythmic and tonal patterns for his or her instrument.

Identify simple music forms (for example, call and response, verse and refrain, AB, ABA) that are presented aurally.

Listen and respond to basic elements of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

Use appropriate terminology to identify and describe music forms, notation, instruments, and performances.

Respond to the music performances of others by using personal vocabulary and the criteria provided by the teacher.

Evaluate his or her own music performances by using appropriate terminology and the criteria provided by the teacher.

Use appropriate terminology to explain his or her music preferences.

Evaluate his or her own music performances by using appropriate terminology and the criteria provided by the teacher.