AE17.MU.4.5

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

AE17.MU.4.5
Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?

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.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Conducting patterns in
Syncopation

Melody

Pitch set: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, Ti
Treble clef reading (La, So, Mi, Re, Do)
Middle C through High B
Create melodic sequences
Half-step
Whole step

Harmony

Canons
Chord components
Chord progression (I, V)
Crossover bordun

Form

Phrasing: antecedent and consequent
D.C. al coda
Fine

Expression

pp through ff

Other

Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
Orchestra instruments within the 4 families
Age-appropriate pitch matching (A3-E5)

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.