AE17.MU.5.14

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

AE17.MU.5.14
Perform music, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

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, appropriate expressive qualities, proper posture and breath control.
Sing intervals on pitch within a major diatonic scale.
Perform melodies on recorder while reading standard and/or iconic music notation.
Perform, on instruments, a varied repertoire with accurate rhythm and pitch, appropriate expressive qualities, proper posture and breath control.
Sing partner songs to create harmony.
Sight-read and prepare a performance.

Creating

Demonstrate appropriate use of legato and staccato in a song.
Create a personal playlist and explain why each piece was selected.
Improvise, compose and arrange music.
Use technology and the media arts to create and perform music.

Reading/ Writing

Read, write, and perform rhythms in 2/4, 3/4.
Read, write and perform diatonic melodies and the major scale on the treble clef staff.
Identify tempo markings such as allegro, presto, largo, and andante.
Identify ledger-line notes A, B, and C above the treble clef staff.
Identify whole and half steps of the major diatonic scale in printed music.
Recognize the difference between major and minor tonalities.
Write program notes to accompany performances.

Responding/ Evaluating

Discuss melodic and harmonic elements used in a piece of music.
Explain how a performer performs a piece of music differently when he/she knows the social, cultural, or historical background of the piece, (e.g., How does knowing the history of the American Civil Rights Movement affect the performance of "We Shall Overcome?"
Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette at live performances.
Write performance reviews of performances.