Music Curriculum
4th Grade
Course Purpose: |
Students will perform on the recorder independently and will compose short works of music on a digital platform. |
Outcome # |
Outcome |
FA.4M.1 | Students will prepare and perform a selection of pieces for soprano recorder and demonstrate proper performance and practice process for learning new music. |
FA.4M.2 | Students will analyze the music of a variety of composers, making connections between the composers’ music and their personal history and/or country/culture of origin. |
FA.4M.3 |
Students will improvise and compose, using standard and non-standard notation, musical and rhythmic phrases of various lengths using eighth/sixteenth note combinations, and both compound duple and triple meter. |
FA.4M.4 |
Students will prepare and perform a variety of age and range-appropriate musical selections representing different cultures and traditions, both vocally and instrumentally. |
FA.4M.5 |
Students will, through the study and analysis of a standard orchestral work, connect literature and poetry to music. |
FA.4M.6 |
Students will through analysis and performance of various classroom songs, sing and improvise independently on the notes of a diatonic scale, using rhythms to include eighth/sixteenth combinations. |
FA.4M.7 |
Students will, on both pitched and unpitched instruments, improvise and compose (with standard notation), including various ostinati and borduns using two and three mallets. |