AE17.MU.3.4

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 3 - Music

AE17.MU.3.4
Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic and melodic 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

Play a variety of classroom instruments with proper technique.
Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture.

Creating

Use pitch and rhythm to improvise vocal, instrumental, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as question and answer phrases or simple accompaniment/ostinato).

Reading/ Writing

Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to sequence and document personal musical ideas.

Responding/ Evaluating

Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces through performance.
Develop criteria to critique and refine selected musical examples.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Bar lines
Measures

Melody

Pitch set: Low So, Low La, High Do
Treble clef reading (Mi, Re, Do)
Middle C to high G
Ledger lines

Harmony

Partner songs
Rounds
Ostinati

Form

Theme and variations
Coda
D.S. al coda
Repeat sign
Fermata

Expression

Phrase/ phrasing
Pianissimo (pp), fortissimo (ff)

Other

Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
Orchestral instruments: 4 families
Age-appropriate pitch matching (Bb3 - Eb5)

Anchor Standards

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

Aligned Learning Resources

The Language of Rhythm

Song Maker

Kandinsky

Scratch

Groove Pizza

Incredibox

Create a Rhythm, Select a Tempo

Design by Adaptive Theme