Content Overview
Students will experience and demonstrate the following skills and concepts in music throughout the year:
Concepts and Skills by Grade Level
Grade 1
Identify and perform high and low, loud and quiet, and fast and slow sounds
Match pitch, and echo rhythmic phrases
Read and perform simple melodies, rhythms and accompaniments
Recognize and categorize sounds |
Grade 4
Identify families of instruments by sight and sound
Read, create and perform simple melodies, rhythms and accompaniments
Demonstrate proper technique on a pitched instrument
Identify and perform musical forms
(i.e. Rondo form) |
Grade 2
Read, create and perform simple melodies, rhythms and accompaniments
Understand and use loud (forte) and soft (piano)
Identify the parts of the staff – lines, spaces
Identify steps, skips and leaps in musical notation
Create and identify simple forms of music |
Grade 5
Perform and identify musical forms (i.e. Theme and Variation, Rondo form)
Use proper singing technique
Perform individually and within an ensemble
Connect music and the arts to the larger world |
Grade 3
Read, create and perform simple melodies, rhythms and accompaniments
Identify and use basic musical notation
Perform simple musical forms (i.e. rounds, partner songs) |
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Classroom Based Performance Assessment (CBPA)
At grades 5, teachers formally assess students’ knowledge of music by administering a CBPA. |
