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PRIMARY MUSIC: THIRD GRADE 

PRIMARY MUSIC: THIRD 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

Performance Standard:

Students identify and discuss the elements of music

Performance Standard:

Students interpret and use 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

2.23 - Students analyze their own and others’ artistic products and performances

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 (whole, half, quarter, 8th notes and rests), fermata

AH-E-1.1.32 Tempo: slow, fast, medium

AH-E-1.1.33 Melody: shape, direction (up, down, same, step, skip) high vs. low notes (pitches), lines and spaces, treble clef sign, pitch notation (middle C to F at top of staff)

AH-E-1.1.34 Harmony: unison, parts, tonality (major, minor, resting), intervals

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

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

AH-E-1.1.37 Dynamics: soft (piano), loud (forte), medium soft (mezzo piano), medium loud (mezzo forte), very loud (fortissimo), very soft (pianissimo),crescendo/decrescendo

Demonstrators:

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

Experience and perform music from diverse cultures

Recognize and develop music concepts (melody, harmony, rhythm, form expression, and style)

Recognize and demonstrate arts concepts used to describe feelings

Create and/or perform original and existing works of music

Discuss works of art using appropriate concepts and terminology

Observe and explore a variety of artistic styles and forms in music

 

 

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-1.1.21 – Sing and play alone simple rhythmic or tonal patterns by reading music notation. Be able to sustain own part in an ensemble

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

Specific Activities Continued:

AH-E-1.1.23 – Sing rote melodies accurately

AH-E-1.1.24 – Evaluate own musical performance or composition by citing appropriate musical elements

Suggested Activities:

Singing age-appropriate songs using the terms "unison" and "parts"

Performing rhythmic accompaniments on sticks, rhythm instruments, body percussion

Performing rhythmic, melodic or chordal patterns on classroom instruments

Reading simple rhythms

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

Improvising answers in similar style of given rhythmic and/or melodic phrases

Directed listening with focus on elements

Identifying simple forms

Creating pieces in simple forms

Recognizing voices as "high" or "low"

Visual recognition of instruments

Aural recognition of instruments by families

Identifying and creating pieces with changing dynamics

Critical Vocabulary:

Rhythm (steady beat); tempo slow, fast, medium; melody (up, down, same, step, skip, high, low); form, call & response, verse, chorus, round; dynamics, loud (forte), soft (piano), medium loud (mezzo forte), medium soft (mezzo piano), very loud (fortissimo), very soft (pianissimo) crescendo, decrescendo; unison; parts; tonality, major, minor, "resting tonality"; treble clef, intervals

 

PRIMARY MUSIC: THIRD 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

Performance Standard:

Students develop an awareness that specific styles of music define time periods and respective cultures

Performance Standard:

Students identify music from diverse cultures, periods and styles

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

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

2.22 – Students create products and make presentations that convey concepts and feeling in the human experience through their productions, performance or interpretations

2.23 – Students analyze their own and others’ artistic products and performances

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

2.25 – Through their productions and performances or interpretation, students show an understanding of the influence of time, personality and society on the arts and 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, West African and American folk music

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

 

 

 

Demonstrators:

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

Recognize and develop music concepts (melody, harmony, rhythm, form, expression, and style)

Explore a variety of art forms in music

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

Create and/or perform original and existing works of music

Describe reaction to artworks and performances using basic vocabulary

Express openness to differences and commonalities among diverse cultures.

Communicate recognition of the diversity of art forms and structure in music

Respond to the expressive qualities of music

Recognize and demonstrate arts concepts used to describe feelings

Recognize the role of the artist in music

Specific Activities:

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-1.1.21 – Sing and play alone simple rhythmic or tonal patterns by reading music notation. Be able to sustain own part in an ensemble

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

AH-E-1.1.23 – Sing rote melodies accurately

AH-E-1.1.24 – Evaluate own musical performance or composition by citing appropriate musical elements

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

Suggested Activities:

Listening to, singing and/or writing about songs and music of other cultures (SSC – Matches Social Studies Curriculum)

Listening to, singing and/or writing about age-appropriate traditional American folk songs (SSC)

Listening to, singing and/or writing about holiday music, both traditional American and from other cultures (SSC)

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

Moving to and/or writing about music from many cultures

Singing and/or writing about patriotic songs (SSC)

Listening to, moving to and/or writing about marches (SSC)

Listening to and writing about Native American music (SSC)

Singing and/or writing about Native American songs (SSC)

Listen to and writing about West African music (SSC)

Singing and/or writing about West African Songs (SSC)

Playing and/or writing about West African games and instruments (SSC)

Critical Vocabulary:

Culture, American Folk culture, Native American, West African; game songs, folk songs, work songs, lullabies, patriotic songs, marches; spirituals, blues

 

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