Music: Grade 3

Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze and describe music.

Evaluating - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

Sing melodies, expressively, with accurate rhythm and pitch (solfege and/or lyrics).

Demonstrate proper vocal technique.

Develop skills for singing harmony.

Play rhythmic patterns on non-pitched instruments.

Play melodies on pitched instruments.

Play rhythmic and/or melodic accompaniments.

Play, using appropriate expressive markings.

Improvise melodies using a pentatonic scale.

Improvise rhythm patterns.

Improvise question and answer phrases.

Improvise, vocally or instrumentally, a simple accompaniment or ostinato.

Create a rhythmic composition.

Compose a simple melody.

Compose a short melodic, vocal or instrumental, introduction, interlude, and/or coda.

Identify and explain symbols represented in rhythm and melody.

Use symbols to read, notate, and perform.

Identify and interpret terms and symbols referring to musicality.

Demonstrate same and different sections of music through varying methods.

Identify and classify orchestral instrument families, visually and aurally.

Describe characteristics of musical selections (vocal and instrumental).

Identify various styles and/or genres (vocal and instrumental) of music.

Devise and apply criteria for evaluating music and music performances.

Demonstrate proper audience etiquette and evaluate audience behavior.

Experience and recognize elements of music as they relate to other arts disciplines.

Examine ways in which music interrelates with other academic disciplines.

Recognize, describe, and perform music of various cultures and historical periods.