AE17.MU.4.1

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 4 - Music

AE17.MU.4.1
Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific social and cultural purposes and contexts.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Skills Examples

Performing

With limited guidance, perform simple chord progressions on pitched instruments.
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

With limited guidance, improvise or compose a 2-4 measure musical idea, a pentatonic melody, or a rhythm pattern using age-appropriate note values.
Create vocal harmony using rounds, ostinati, canons and partner songs.

Reading/ Writing

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

Responding/ Evaluating

Describe the way sound is produced by various instruments and the human voice.
Listen, identify and respond to music of different composers and world cultures.