AE17.MU.4.13

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

AE17.MU.4.13
Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities and address performance challenges.

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, move and respond to music from world cultures and different composers.
Sing a varied repertoire with accurate rhythm, pitch and expressive qualities individually and with others.

Creating

With limited guidance, Improvise and compose short compositions using a variety of classroom instruments and sound sources.

Reading/ Writing

Read, write and perform using rhythm patterns that include syncopated rhythms, in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 meter.

Responding/ Evaluating

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

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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.