Music: Grade 4

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 in varied styles with accurate pitch and rhythm.

Demonstrate proper vocal technique.

Demonstrate skills for singing harmony.

Demonstrate basic rhythmic patterns in duple and triple meter on non-pitched instruments using correct technique.

Demonstrate simple melodies on pitched instruments using correct technique.

Demonstrate simple rhythmic and/or melodic accompaniments using correct technique.

Demonstrate simple melodies with appropriate expressive markings.

Improvise, vocally and/or instrumentally, two-measure melodies using a pentatonic scale.

Improvise rhythmic patterns.

Improvise, vocally and/or instrumentally, questions and/or answers.

Improvise a simple instrumental accompaniment.

Compose a simple four-measure melody in binary and/or ternary form.

Compose a simple four-measure melody on a major and/or minor scale.

Compose, vocal or instrumental, a short melodic introduction, interlude, and/or coda using teacher-given parameters.

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 through varying methods.

Identify and classify, visually and aurally, orchestral instruments individually and/or by family.

Describe, both orally and written, the characteristics of musical selections (vocal and instrumental).

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

Devise and apply, with teacher guidance, criteria for evaluating music and music performances.

Demonstrate proper audience etiquette and evaluate audience behavior during performances.

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

Investigate and demonstrate ways music interrelates with other academic disciplines.

Describe and perform music of various cultures and historical periods.