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INTERMEDIATE MUSIC: FIFTH GRADE

INTERMEDIATE MUSIC: FIFTH GRADE // ELEMENTS

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard:

Students will express elements of music (rhythm, melody, form, timbre, harmony, tempo, dynamics) through singing, instrument playing, moving, listening, reading, writing and creating

Performance Standard:

Students will analyze how elements of music are used in performing, listening to and/or creating music

Performance Standard:

Students will create music with developmentally appropriate performance techniques, practices and music elements to communicate ideas and emotions

Performance Standard:

Students will create a simple composition using 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 performance

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 (largo), medium (moderato), fast (allegro)

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, rondo

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

AH-E-1.1.37 Dynamics: piano, forte, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, fortissimo, 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)

Discuss musical using appropriate concepts and terminology

Create and/or perform original and existing works of music

Identify and express arts concepts in music, dance, drama and visual arts

Reflect on, interpret, and revise own work and/or works of others in the visual arts

Compare and contrast formal design, style, and structure within each discipline (music, dance, drama and visual art)

Examine and construct meaning from musical works

Communicate recognition of the diversity of art forms and structures in music, dance, drama and visual arts

Evaluate personal artistic creations and those of others using vocabulary from music, dance, drama and visual arts

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 phrase

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:

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

Reading rhythms and pitch

Performing rhythmic accompaniments on sticks, rhythm instruments, body percussion

Performing rhythmic, melodic or chordal patterns on classroom instruments

Creating melodies or accompaniments with voices or on classroom instruments

Identifying two-part, three-part and rondo forms

Creating pieces in two-part, three-part and rondo forms

Directed listening with focus on elements

Writing about the elements of music

Visual and aural recognition of individual instruments and instruments by families

Identifying and creating pieces with changing tempos and dynamics

Moving to and writing about pieces with changing tempos and dynamics

Using musical elements to create pieces which express concepts and emotions

Creating and notating simple melodies that demonstrate melodic shape

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

Recognizing the relationship between elements of music and expressive movement

Critical Vocabulary:

Tempo, largo, allegro, moderato; melody (up, down, same, step, skip, high, low); form, call & response, verse, chorus, round, rondo; dynamics, forte, piano, mezzo forte, mezzo piano, fortissimo, pianissimo, crescendo, decrescendo; harmony, unison; parts; tonality, major, minor, "resting tonality"; treble clef, intervals; timbre; rhythm, quarter note, quarter rest, eighth note, eighth rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest

 

INTERMEDIATE MUSIC: FIFTH GRADE // HISTORICAL/CULTURAL CONTEXT

PROGRAM OF STUDIES:

Performance Standard

Students will compare and contrast music of diverse cultures, periods and styles using appropriate terminology

Performance Standard

Students will create products to demonstrate music from diverse cultures, periods and styles

ACADEMIC EXPECTATION(S):

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 Africans and American folk music

AH-E-1.2.32 – Discuss game songs, folk songs, work songs, lullabies, marches, patriotic songs, spirituals, and blues, bluegrass, spirituals, popular, rock, rap and country

AH – E.1.2.33 – Identify composers (Bach, Handel, Vivaldi) and instruments (organ, harpsichord, orchestral families) unique to the Baroque period

 

 

 

Demonstrators:

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

Identify and express arts concepts in music

Describe reaction to musical works and performances using basic vocabulary

Recognize the role of the artist in music

Compare and contrast formal design, style and structure within each discipline, (music, dance, drama and visual art)

Communicate recognition of the diversity of art forms and structures in music, dance, drama and visual arts

Demonstrate through products or performances, forms of music

Respond to the expressive qualities of music

Express openness to differences and commonalities among diverse cultures

Investigate and communicate the differences and commonalities in the artistic expressions of music from diverse cultures

Examine the effects of time, place, and personality on musical forms and performance practices

Recognize and demonstrate arts concepts used to describe feelings

Begin to formulate personal values based on the perception and reaction to the expressive qualities of music

Evaluate personal artistic creations and those of others using appropriate vocabulary

Demonstrators Continued:

Reflect on, interpret, and revise own work and/or works of others 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:

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

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

Students listen to, sing and write about game songs, work songs, and folk songs from the Appalachian culture (SSC)

Students listen to and write about Appalachian folk instruments

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

Students move to music from many cultures

Students listen to, sing and write about Native American music (SSC)

Students listen to, sing and write about West African music

Students play West African games and instruments (SSC)

Students listen to and write about music, instruments and composers from the Baroque period

Critical Vocabulary:

Culture, American Folk culture, Appalachian, Native American, West African; game songs, folk songs, work songs, lullabies, patriotic songs, marches; spirituals, blues, popular, rock, rap, country; harpsichord, organ, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Baroque

 

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