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 2
*Depth of Knowledge
Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Performing.
Pr4.1: A. Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.
- Gr2: *Demonstrate and/or explain personal interest and knowledge about the purpose of varied musical selections.
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e.g., Baroque era, American folk & pop, Hawaiian & Asian Pacific songs and music.
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e.g., Baroque era, American folk & pop, Hawaiian & Asian Pacific songs and music.
Pr4.2: A. Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
- Gr2: *Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts from a variety of cultures.
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Review
Ta, titi: Pi`apa; Half note, ta-a: Haruga Kita; Ang Sinina Ko`ng Bag`o; Piapa (Hawaiian); Kahuli Aku (Hawaiian);
- Solfège - re:
- Low la,: Behold - E Ike Mai (Hawaiian);
- Sixteenth notes:
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Review
Ta, titi: Pi`apa; Half note, ta-a: Haruga Kita; Ang Sinina Ko`ng Bag`o; Piapa (Hawaiian); Kahuli Aku (Hawaiian);
Pr4.3: Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
- Gr2: *Demonstrate understanding of expressive qualities and how creators use them to convey expressive intent.
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.
- Gr2: *Apply established criteria to judge the accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.
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.
- Gr2: *Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.
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- Whose Slippers? (Xylophone)
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.
- Gr2: Independently *explain/interpret the influence of personal interests and experiences on musical listening preferences.
Re8.1: Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
- Gr2: *Explain the manner in which dynamics and tempo support the creators’/performers’ expressive intent.
Re9.1: Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established.
- Gr2: *Discuss/Interpret personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music for specific purposes using applicable musical terms.