Grades K-2

PERFORM

Create

Respond

Respond/Listen

Standard 1: Sing and play a varied repertoire of music

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Standard 2: Read music from traditional and nontraditional notation

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Standard 3: Analyze and evaluate own performances

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Standard 4: Improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments

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Standard 5: Compose and arrange music using notation

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Standard 6: Analyze and evaluate own creations

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Standard 7: Understand the historical contributions and cultural dimensions of music

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Standard 8: Understand relationships among the arts and disciplines outside the arts

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Standard 9: Analyze, evaluate, and respond to varied musical repertoire and performances

By the end of grade 2

a. Echo a variety of short rhythmic and melodic patterns

b. Demonstrate a steady beat and accuracy on age appropriate rhythm patterns when singing, speaking, and playing classroom instruments

c. Sing and play simple songs from various cultures in tune, accurately, and expressively (by imitation) with appropriate posture

d. Maintain melodic and rhythmic accuracy when singing ostinati, partner songs, or simple canons in a group

e. Accompany simple harmonic songs on classroom instruments with appropriate dynamics

f. Demonstrate proper performance skills:

a. Read simple rhythmic and melodic patterns (e.g. using eighth, quarter, half notes, rests, and the do-pentatonic scale)

b. Use a system (e.g. solfege syllables, numbers, letters) to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef

c. Sight-read simple rhythmic and melodic patterns

a. Describe and reflect on musical performances using age-appropriate criteria (e.g. clarity of words, pitch accuracy, speed, steady beat)

b. Describe and reflect on performance etiquette (e.g. stage behavior)

a. Improvise matching "answers" to given simple rhythmic and melodic phrases

a. Create and notate simple rhythmic and melodic patterns

b. Create simple arrangements and accompaniments of known songs using classroom instruments

a. Describe and reflect on own musical creations using age-appropriate language

a. Identify connections between music of various time periods, cultures, and composers

b. Sing, listen to and describe music representative of different activities and celebrations in a variety of world cultures

a. Identify similar themes in stories, songs and art forms

b. Relate musical concepts to disciplines outside of the arts (e.g. form to mathematical pattern)

a. Identify age-appropriate music concepts (e.g. fast/slow, loud/soft, and rhythms) and forms (e.g. verse/refrain, AB, ABA) in musical selections

b. Classify common instruments by method of sound production

c. Describe and reflect on others' musical performances and repertoire using age-appropriate language and criteria

d. Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior for in-school performances

- Respond to cues of a conductor (tempo, start and stop)

- Use correct performance etiquette