AE17.MU.3.15

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

AE17.MU.3.15
Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context and venue.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?

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 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.