Music: Grade 5

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 modes with appropriate style, accurate pitch and rhythm.

Demonstrate the ability to sing expressively using proper vocal technique.

Demonstrate skills for singing in parts.

Demonstrate simple and complex patterns including syncopation in various meters on pitched and/or non-pitched instruments using correct technique.

Exhibit skill in playing simple orchestrations on pitched and/or non-pitched instruments using correct technique.

Perform rhythmic and/or melodic accompaniments using correct technique.

Perform with appropriate expressive qualities in various genres.

Improvise, vocally and instrumentally, a two- to four-measure melody on a pentatonic scale.

Improvise a two- to four-measure rhythmic accompaniment to varying musical styles.

Improvise two- to four-measure question and answer phrases.

Improvise a two- to four-measure melodic accompaniment within teacher-given parameters.

Create, individually or in groups, a simple vocal or instrumental two-part composition using teacher-given parameters.

Compose a short melodic vocal or instrumental introduction, interlude and/or coda to given melodies on major and/or minor pentatonic scales.

Create an arrangement of a familiar melody using instruments and/or movement.

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.

Explain characteristics of same and different sections.

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

Analyze, orally and written, the characteristics of vocal and instrumental musical selections using appropriate music vocabulary.

Compare and contrast various styles and genres of music, both vocal and instrumental.

Devise and apply criteria for evaluating music and music performances.

Demonstrate proper audience etiquette and evaluate audience behavior during performances.

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

Investigate and compare ways in which music interrelates with other academic disciplines.

Classify and/or perform music of various cultures and historical periods.