Music Curriculum

4th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will perform on the recorder independently and will compose short works of music on a digital platform.

Outcomes and Components:

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.

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Standard(s)

  FA.4M.3.1 Identify and perform eighth/sixteenth note combinations on a variety of unpitched percussion. MU:Pr4.2.4b, MU:Pr6.1.4a
  FA.4M.3.2 Identify and perform numerical methods of counting eighth/sixteenth note combinations. MU:Pr4.2.4b, MU:Pr6.1.4a
  FA.4M.3.3 Compose and perform a 4 bar phrase using known rhythms and eighth/sixteenth note combinations.

MU:Cr1.1.4b, MU:Cr2.1.4a, MU:Cr2.1.4b

MU:Pr4.2.4b, MU:Pr6.1.4a

  FA.4M.3.4 Investigate the function of eighth/sixteenth note combinations in compound duple meters. MU:Pr4.2.4b
  FA.4M.3.5 Perform a 4 bar rhythmic phrase in compound duple meter, using known rhythms and eighth/sixteenth note combinations, on a variety of instruments.

MU:Cr1.1.4b, MU:Cr2.1.4a, MU:Cr2.1.4b

MU:Pr4.2.4b, MU:Pr6.1.4a

Academic Vocabulary: Identify, Perform, Compose, Investigate

Content Vocabulary: Steady Beat, Rhythm