4th Grade Music: Grade Level Expectations
4th Grade Students Will Understand That …
- Individuals within a performing group share a common beat.
- Manipulating rhythms creates patterns.
- Rhythmic patterns exist in orderedsets.
- Melodies are organized into tonalities.
- Combining two or morepitches creates harmony in different ways.
- Layers of sounds createinterest within music.
- Musical structure is caused by repetition andcontrast of same and different parts.
- Dynamics, tempo, articulation, andtext express and enhance the message of music.
- Sounds have distinguishingand recognizable characteristics.
- Timbre reflects mood and culture.
- Combing musical elements creates aesthetics in music.
- Music facilitates the communication of emotions and ideas.
- Musical cultures exhibit both change and continuity over time.
- Music is a product and reflection of thelives and experiences of people.
- Performance fosters personal growth and development.
- Participation in a performing group facilitates the development of lifetime coping skills: ability to work with others, problem solving, respect and analytical ability.
4th Grade Students Will Know …
- How musical notation shows groups of bests.
- The importance of sharing a common beat.
- What patterns can be found in a melody.
- Howharmony is created.
- How a round is different from a single melody.
- Howsolos, small groups and large groups create interest within music.
- Whatcommon forms are used in musical composition.
- How expressive elements canbe used to communicate an idea.
- Why various timbres remind you of aspecific culture.
- Why people react differently to the same piece ofmusic.
- That musical traditions have remained constant throughout a culture's history.
- Why performances are given.
- What life skills aredeveloped through performance.
- What manners are expected from performers and the audience.
4th Grade Students Will Be Able To …
- Recognize and understand meter signatures, bar lines, and measures.
- Recognize and experience the following: 2 sixteenths plus an eighth; triplet eighths.
- Recognize and demonstrate, aurally and kinesthetically, a skip and a leap.
- Sing simple partner songs and/or rounds.
- Create andarrange music to accompany readings and dramatizations.
- Recognize aurallysolo, small group, and large groups.
- Recognize aurally andkinesthetically rondo.
- Recognize and demonstrate mezzo forte, mezzopiano, fortissimo and pianissimo.
- Identify specific instruments of theorchestra.
- Choose musical elements for use in students' music andorganize them for expressive purposes.
- Create and/or manipulate music todemonstrate emotions and ideas.
- Experience cultural similarities anddifferences of music, history, art, drama, literature and dance.
- Identifyvarious uses of music in their lives.
- Sing in groups blending vocaltimbres, matching dynamic levels, and responding to the cues of a conductor.
- Perform for and with others.
- Demonstrate appropriate performanceskills, i.e. correct posture, stage deportment, riser etiquette,attentiveness and memorization.
- Demonstrate appropriate concert manners.