Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent
EQ: How do performers interpret musical works?
EQ: How do performers interpret musical works?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Sing or play music with attention to expressive elements such as dynamics and articulation
- Perform music from a variety of cultural traditions, focusing on holidays and special days.
- Create new verses for familiar songs.
- Use manipulatives or movement to inform melodic contour.
- Write rhythmic phrases that include quarter notes and paired eighth notes using standard or iconic notation.
- Read rhythmic phrases containing quarter notes, quarter rests, and paired eighth notes using standard or iconic notation.
- Indicate melodic contour using manipulatives such as yarn, or by drawing lines that reflect the melodic contour.
- Identify expressive markings in printed music.
- Determine the appropriate dynamics and articulation for different types of music (ex. March = staccato, forte; lullaby = legato, piano).
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes
- Strong/ weak beat
- Steady beat/ rhythm
- Allegro/ adagio
- Pitch set: Mi, So, La
- Steps/ skips/ repeated notes
- Melodic direction
- Modified staff
- Line notes and space notes
- Rhythmic ostinati
- Simple bordun
- AB, ABA
- Legato, staccato
- Piano (p), forte (f)
- Classroom instrument classifications
- Clarinet, trombone, cello, drum
- Orchestral music: ballet
- Non-Western music celebrations
- Proper singing posture
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (C4 - C5)1
- Mallet/ drumming technique — hands together
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
