AE17.MU.3.12

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

AE17.MU.3.12
Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their 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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

COS Examples

Example: Assess an ensemble performance using a predetermined rubric.