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 4

*Depth of Knowledge

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Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Performing.

Pr4.1: A. Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.

  • Gr4: *Explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, and its connection to context and technical skill.
    • e.g., 20th century era, American folk, Hawaiian, Asian Pacific, Polynesian, African and African American (blues and jazz) music and songs.

Pr4.2: A. Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.


Pr4.3: Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent. 

  • Gr4: *Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities.

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. 

  • Gr4: *Apply teacher‐provided and collaboratively‐developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal 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. 

  • Gr4: *Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

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. 

  • Gr4: *Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.


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.

  • Gr4: *Analyze music for listening which connects to personal interests, experiences, specific purposes, or contexts.

Re8.1: Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent. 

  • Gr4: *Interpret the use of dynamics, tempo, timbre, and texture in the creators'  composition/performers’ interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Re9.1: Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established. 

  • Gr4: *Analyze and evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context using applicable musical terms.



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