AE17.MU.2.4

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 2 - Music

AE17.MU.2.4
Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to combine, sequence, and document personal musical ideas.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?

Skills Examples

Performing

Perform original melodic patterns in do pentatonic as an introduction to a known song.
Perform original rhythmic patterns on body percussion or unpitched percussion, containing eighth note, eighth rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest, as an introduction to a known chant.

Creating

Create a melody on pitched instruments using speech rhythms from a selected poem.
Improvise with a partner in question/answer style, using pitched or unpitched percussion instruments.

Reading/ Writing

Notate speech rhythms from a selected poem, using iconic or standard notation.
Using music composition software, create an original composition based on a personally selected topic.

Responding/ Evaluating

Refine compositions based on self-evaluation of a recorded performance.
Indicate dynamic markings for original compositions.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Eighth note, eighth rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest
Strong/ weak beat — 2/4; 3/4 meter
Accelerando/ ritardando

Melody

Pitch Set: Do , Re, Mi, So, La
Five-line staff
Treble clef
Names of lines/ spaces (treble staff)

Harmony

Melodic ostinati
Partner songs

Form

AAB, AABA, Rondo
Verse/ Refrain

Expression

Orchestral instrument families
Piano (p), forte (f)
Crescendo/ decrescendo
Orchestral Music: programmatic
Indigenous music: Native American
American music: slave songs, colonial folk songs

Other

Age-appropriate pitch matching (B3-D5)¹
Mallet/ drumming technique: alternating hands

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Aligned Learning Resources

The Language of Rhythm

Kandinsky

Patterns Activity

Groove Pizza

Creating AB Patterns

Mystery Rhythm Box

Rhythm Composition With Playdough

Rhythm Composition in Rondo Form

Creating Rondo Form

Rhythm Creator

Design by Adaptive Theme