Music Curriculum

3rd Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will engage in the practice and preparation of music, with guidance, on the recorder and master more complicated folk and cultural dances.

Outcomes and Components:

FA.3M.5 Students will discuss ways music can tell a story, perform extended dynamics and perform and conduct in duple meter (simple and compound), through the analysis of a standard orchestral work.

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Standard(s)

  FA.3M.5.1 Listen to and analyze a standard orchestral work (e.g. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice)  that tells a story, focusing on changes and patterns in tempo, texture, and dynamic. MU:Pr4.2.3a
  FA.3M.5.2 Present an interpretation of the work, using the music as a guide. MU:Pr4.2.3a
  FA.3M.5.3 Compare various versions of the story upon which the work is based. VA:Pr6.1.3a
  FA.3M.5.4 Identify and demonstrate (through a standard duple meter conducting pattern) dynamic shifts in the music and debate their purpose. MU:Pr4.2.3a
  FA.3M.5.5 Create personal interpretation of the story told by the music, either in digital or physical form. VA:Cn11.1.3a

Academic Vocabulary: Play, Create, Identify, Demonstrate, Describe

Content Vocabulary: Tempo, Dynamic, Rhythm, Meter