AE17.MU.K.16

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): KG - Music

AE17.MU.K.16
Demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
EQ: How do we discern musical creators' and performers' expressive intent?

Skills Examples

Performing

Perform songs of various genres while reflecting appropriate stylistic characteristics.

Creating

Purposefully move to music and articulate why they made the movement choices they made based on the music they heard.

Reading/ Writing

Discuss, using musical language, the characteristics of the music they hear and/or perform.
Discuss, using age/developmentally appropriate musical language, what sort of music they like personally and why.

Responding/ Evaluating

Share ideas about musical selections of various and contrasting styles, composers and musical periods.
Describe how sounds and music are used in our daily lives.
Describe the difference between steady beat and rhythm.
Identify and connect a concept shared between music and another curricular area.
Identify and discuss various uses of music in the United States and the various meanings of the term "musician."
Respond to sound with a drawing of how the sound makes them feel.
Offer opinions about their own musical experiences and responses to music.
Aurally identify flute, trumpet, violin, and piano.