AE17.MU.5.1

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Music

AE17.MU.5.1
Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific social, cultural, and historical 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

Improvise over standard folk songs using the pitch set: La, So, Mi, Re, and Do.
Improvise melodies in a major diatonic scale by singing or using a pitched instrument.
Compose melodies and accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations, using AB, ABA, and rondo forms.
Perform pre-written musical ideas.
Perform harmonic accompaniments using Orff instruments, Boomwhackers, electronic sources, or by any other appropriate harmonic instrument.
Notate simple rhythms and melodies within a specified meter and tonality.

Creating

Create a 12-bar blues song using appropriate chordal structure and lyrics.
Explore and identify musical instruments from different historical periods and world cultures.

Reading/ Writing

Write an original blues song.
Identify elements of music including tonality, dynamics, tempo and meter.
Identify patterns of whole and half steps in a major scale.
Compose 4 or 8 measure pieces using appropriate notation.

Responding/ Evaluating

Review and refine a composition.
Evaluate a performance, using appropriate vocabulary to describe strengths and weaknesses of the performance.
Listen to, identify, and respond to music of different composers, historical periods, and world cultures.
Identify terms related to form.
Recognize and identify longer music forms such as 12-bar blues, sonata form and theme and variations.
Identify vocal timbre as soprano, alto, tenor, or bass.
Write short self-reflections about his/her composition and the creative process.