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PRIMARY MUSIC: SECOND GRADE

PRIMARY MUSIC: SECOND GRADE // ELEMENTS

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students recognize the elements of music

Performance Standard:

Students begin to recognize terminology, notation, and symbols within the elements of music

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.14 – Students construct meaning and/or communicate ideas and emotions through music

2.22 – Students create products and make presentations that convey concepts and feelings

in the human experience through their productions, performance, or interpretations

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-1.1.31 Rhythm: steady beat, meter (duple, triple), time signatures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4), rhythmic durations (half, quarter, 8th notes and rests), fermata

AH-E-1.1.32 Tempo: slow, fast

AH-E-1.1.33 Melody: shape, direction (up, down, same, step, skip) high vs. low notes (pitches), lines and spaces

AH-E-1.1.35 Form: call & response, two-part (AB), three-part (ABA), verse/chorus, repeat signs

AH-E-1.1.36 Timbre: sounds of voices and instrument families

AH-E-1.1.37 Dynamics: soft (piano), loud (forte)

Demonstrators:

Explore and respond to music through singing, instrument playing, moving, listening and creating

Experience and perform music from diverse cultures

Explore the elements and principles of art forms

Create and/or perform original and existing works of music

Discuss works of art using appropriate concepts and terminology

 

 

 

Specific Activities:

AH-E-1.1.11 – Create and notate short, simple melodies that demonstrate melodic shape/contour and meter

AH-E-1.1.12 – Create simple melodic or rhythmic accompaniments to given melodies

AH-E-1.1.13 – Improvise answers in similar style to given rhythmic and/or melodic phrases

AH-E-1.1.22 – Perform simple rhythmic, melodic or chordal patterns on classroom instruments

AH-E-1.1.23 – Sing rote melodies accurately

Suggested Activities:

Singing age-appropriate songs

Clapping, patting, moving to the steady beat

Performing rhythmic accompaniments on sticks, rhythm instruments, body percussion

Performing simple ostinato accompaniments on classroom instruments

Creating melodies that demonstrate "shape" with voices or on classroom instruments

Directed listening with focus on elements

Identifying simple forms

Creating pieces in simple forms

Recognizing voices as "high" or "low"

Suggested Activities Continued:

Visual recognition of instruments

Aural recognition of instruments by families

Critical Vocabulary:

Rhythm (steady beat); tempo slow, fast; melody (up, down, same, step, skip, high, low); form, call & response, verse, chorus; dynamics, loud (forte), soft (piano), quarter note, quarter rest, eighth note, half note, half rest, fermata

 

PRIMARY MUSIC: SECOND GRADE // HISTORICAL/CULTURAL CONTEXT

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard:

Students listen to music of diverse cultures, periods, and styles

Performance Standard:

Students experience music of diverse cultures, periods and styles

Performance Standard:

Students use simple music terminology when describing music of diverse cultures, purposes and styles

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

1.14 – Students construct meaning and/or communicate ideas through music

2.24 – Students appreciate creativity and the values of the arts and the humanities

2.26 – Students recognize differences and commonalities in the human experience through their productions, performances or interpretations

Core Content for Assessment:

AH-E-1.2.31 – Identify similarities and differences in musical elements used in the music of Native Americans and American folk music

AH-E-1.2.32 – Discuss game songs, folk songs, work songs, lullabies, patriotic songs, marches

Demonstrators:

Explore a variety of art forms in music

Experience and perform a variety of art forms in music from diverse cultures

Express openness to differences and commonalities among diverse cultures

Describe reaction to artworks and performances using basic vocabulary

Respond to the expressive qualities of music

Specific Activities:

AH-E-1.1.12 – Create simple melodic or rhythmic accompaniments to given melodies

AH-E-1.1.23 – Sing rote melodies accurately

AH-E-1.1.25 – Recognize and demonstrate the relationship between elements of music and expressive qualities of movement

Suggested Activities:

Students listen to songs and music of other cultures (SSC – Matches Social Studies Curriculum)

Students sing songs of other cultures (SSC)

Students listen to and sing age-appropriate traditional American folk songs (SSC)

Students listen to or sings holiday music, both traditional American and from other cultures (SSC)

Students create accompaniments to music from many cultures on age-appropriate instruments (SSC)

Students move to music from many cultures

Students sing patriotic songs (SSC)

Students Listen to and move to marches (SSC)

Students listen to Native American music (SSC)

Students sing Native American songs (SSC)

Critical Vocabulary:

Culture, American Folk culture, Native American; game songs, folk songs, work songs, lullabies, patriotic songs, marches

 

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