Music Core Standards to provide students opportunities to achieve musical proficiency in Four Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, and Connecting.
Below are suggested activities that are related to Music Core Standards - Performing and Responding (Creating is coming). Please note this is NOT a curriculum. Feel free to modify the materials to meet your needs.
GRADE
*Depth of Knowledge
Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Performing.
Pr4.1: A. Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.
- GrK: *Explore and demonstrate preference for varied musical selections.
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- e.g., Folk, pop, and Classical music (wide variety of music)
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- Dance: Break Mixer
- Circle: Sorida (Zimbabwe)
- Singing Game: Naughty Kitty Cat
- Classical Music: Vivaldi: Spring and Winter
Pr4.2: A. Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
- GrK: *Explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts in a variety of music.
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- Beat & Rhythm: Bee Bim Bop (Korean);
- Fast & Slow: Tong Tong Tong Tong (Filipino)/ Tong Tong Tong Tong;
- Long & Short: Zhao Peng You; Samoan Sasa;
- High & Low:
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- Doggie Doggie
- Zhao Peng You
- Extension (needs password): Don't let the pigeon drive the bus; Zhao Peng You (Chinese);
- Same & Different: Xiao Ma Yi (Little Ant); The Door is Open;
Pr4.3: Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
- GrK: *Demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that support creators' expressive intent.
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- Solo and group: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus (high & low);
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Dynamic: Little Rabbit Foo Foo (soft);
- Smooth & Jerky: Saint-Saëns: Aquarium
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Fast & Slow: Going on a Bear Hunt
Pr5.1: Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
- GrK: With guidance, apply teacher and peer feedback to refine performances.
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- Call and Response:
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- Zhao Peng You;
- Pole Pole
Pr6.1: Enduring Understanding: 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.
Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Responding.
Re7.1: Enduring Understanding: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
- GrK: List, with guidance, personal interests and experiences that influence musical listening preferences.
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- Classical: Vivaldi, Spring, Vivaldi, Winter, Saint-Saëns: Aquarium
Re8.1: Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
- GrK: A. *Explore dynamics and tempo that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent in a selected musical work.
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- Loud and Soft, Smooth: Vivaldi, Spring, Vivaldi, Winter, Saint-Saëns: Aquarium
Re9.1: Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established.
- GrK: With guidance, *explore and list personal and expressive preferences of music.
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- Non-locomotor: Vivaldi, Spring, Vivaldi, Winter, Saint-Saëns: Aquarium
- Locomotor:
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- Dance: Break Mixer
- Dalcroze