AE17.MU.3.8

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

AE17.MU.3.8
Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?

Skills Examples

Performing

Sing a varied repertoire with accurate rhythm and pitch and expressive qualities individually and with others.
Sing, move and respond to music from diverse cultures.
Sing, move and respond to age-appropriate music of various composers.
Play a variety of classroom instruments with proper technique.

Creating

Improvise and compose short compositions using a variety of classroom instruments and sound sources.
Create new words for familiar songs.

Reading/ Writing

Read, write and perform using two-eighth through whole note values including rhythms in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 meter.
Read, write and perform extended pentatonic melodies.

Responding/ Evaluating

Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture.
Develop criteria and use it to critique their own performances and the performances of others.

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 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Aligned Learning Resources

Moving to Tchaikovsky