M04 Essential Skills

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Essential Skills for Level 4

Student will be able to:

1.1 Sing or play music with appropriate technique, in rhythm, in tempo, and on pitch.
1.2 Sing or play music, with appropriate technique, representing musically and culturally diverse literature.
1.3 Responding to the conductor’s cues of rhythm and tempo while singing or playing music.
1.4 Responding to music through movement.
2.2 Read simple melodic and rhythmic notation.
2.3 Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics and tempo.
5.3 Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed (for example: It is not appropriate to talk during an orchestra concert in contrast to its permissibility during a rock concert).

Student will be able to:

2.1 Identify half, quarter, eighth notes and equivalent rests.
2.4 Notate simple melodies and rhythms.
5.1 Identify how elements of music are used in examples from various cultures (for example: rhythms found in the music of Africa and rap music from America show commonalities).
5.3 Identify how elements of music are used in examples from various cultures (for example: rhythms found in the music of Africa and rap music from America show commonalities).

Student will be able to:

1.1 Sing or play music with appropriate technique, in rhythm, in tempo, and on pitch.
1.2 Sing or play music, with appropriate technique, representing musically and culturally diverse literature.
1.4 Responding to music through movement.
2.1 Identify whole, half, dotted half, quarter, eighth notes, and equivalent rests.
2.2 Read simple melodic and rhythmic notation.
2.3 Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics and tempo.
2.4 Notate simple melodies and rhythms.
3.1 Create simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.
3.2 Create short selections, using a variety of sound sources (for example, classroom instruments, vocal sounds, electronic technology, or other sound-producing objects).
4.1 Listen to and identify simple forms.
4.2 Identify contrasts of timbre in sound.
4.3 Identify elements and/or expressive qualities in music.
5.1 Identify how elements of music are used in examples from various cultures (for example: rhythms found in the music of Africa and rap music from America show commonalities)]]
5.2 Identify the roles of musicians in history and various cultures (for example: Scott Joplin and Billie Holiday were representatives of the early jazz movement in America)
5.3 Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed (for example: It is not appropriate to talk during an orchestra concert in contrast to its permissibility during a rock concert).

Student will be able to:

1.1 Sing or play music with appropriate technique, in rhythm, in tempo, and on pitch.
1.2 Sing or play music, with appropriate technique, representing musically and culturally diverse literature.
1.4 Responding to music through movement.
2.1 Identify whole, half, dotted half, quarter, eighth notes, and equivalent rests.
2.2 Read simple melodic and rhythmic notation.
2.3 Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics and tempo.
2.4 Notate simple melodies and rhythms.
3.1 Create simple rhythmic and melodic patterns.
3.2 Create short selections, using a variety of sound sources (for example, classroom instruments, vocal sounds, electronic technology, or other sound-producing objects).
4.1 Listen to and identify simple forms.
4.2 Identify contrasts of timbre in sound.
4.3 Identify elements and/or expressive qualities in music.
5.1 Identify how elements of music are used in examples from various cultures (for example: rhythms found in the music of Africa and rap music from America show commonalities)]]
5.2 Identify the roles of musicians in history and various cultures (for example: Scott Joplin and Billie Holiday were representatives of the early jazz movement in America)
5.3 Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed (for example: It is not appropriate to talk during an orchestra concert in contrast to its permissibility during a rock concert).