Common Planner
K–12 Standards

Music: Grades 3-5

Other Indiana Fine Arts sets

Connect

  • 1

    Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and personal experience. 

    1.  

      EXPERIENCE/CONNECT

      1. 1

        Demonstrate and explore how personal interests and skills relate to choices when creating, performing, and responding to music. Cn.1.5.1

      2. 2

        Identify and practice life skills developed in music studies and activities, such as cooperation, effort, perseverance, and respect, that transfer to other disciplines and contexts. Cn.1.5.2

  • 2

    Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts. 

    1.  

      APPLY/TRANSFER

      1. 1

        Discover, identify, and explore how music connects to language arts, mathematics, and/or science. Cn.2.5.1

      2. 2

        Discover, identify, and explore how music connects to other arts and humanities.Cn.2.5.2

  • 3

    Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.

    1.  

      EXPLORE

      1. 1

        Identify, explore, and perform music associated with historical periods and connect to state, regional, and national events.Cn.3.5.1

      2. 2

        Compare and contrast contemporary American music with various world cultures through live or recorded authentic performances. Cn.3.5.2

      3. 3

        Recognize and describe various roles of musicians in society.Cn.3.5.3

Listen/Respond

  • 4

    Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by audiating music. 

    1.  

      RESPOND

      1. 1

        Audiate and accurately speak or sing from notated music familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and tonalities. Lr.4.5.1

  • 5

    Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components.

    1.  

      UNDERSTAND/INFORM

      1. 1

        Define expressive music terms and apply them to selected musical examples. Lr.5.5.1

      2. 2

        Develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply these criteria to performances.Lr.5.5.2

  • 6

    Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement. 

    1.  

      INTERPRET/EXPRESS

      1. 1

        Use conducting and other types of movement to demonstrate rhythmic patterns and simple and compound meters.Lr.6.5.1

      2. 2

        Demonstrate changes in melodic contour and simple harmonic progression through movement.Lr.6.5.2

      3. 3

        Identify and express age appropriate music concepts including form, phrasing, expressive qualities, and timbre through movement in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances. Lr.6.5.3

Perform

  • 7

    Perform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.

    1.  

      DEVELOP/PERFORM

      1. 1

        Sing in groups and independently while demonstrating appropriate breath control, pitch, diction, tone quality, and posture.P.7.5.1

      2. 2

        Sing songs from diverse cultures with sensitivity, accurate use of languages, appropriate movement, and/or appropriate use of dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.P.7.5.2

      3. 3

        Sing unison and two-part songs, partner songs, and rounds, a cappella and with varied accompaniment. P.7.5.3

      4. 4

        Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences while following the cues of a conductor.P.7.5.4

  • 8

    Perform a varied repertoire of music by playing instruments, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation. 

    1.  

      PERFORM

      1. 1

        Play pitched and unpitched percussion, keyboard, string, and/or wind instruments using correct techniques for producing sound. P.8.5.1

      2. 2

        Play melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns at a consistent tempo. P.8.5.2

      3. 3

        Play melodies, accompaniments, and ensemble parts of various styles and cultures on instruments expressively with correct rhythms, tempi, and dynamics.P.8.5.3

      4. 4

        Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences while following the cues of a conductor.P.8.5.4

Create

  • 9

    Create a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments. 

    1.  

      IMAGINE

      1. 1

        Improvise independently and cooperatively successive melodic phrases to create a song.Cr.9.5.1

      2. 2

        Improvise single-line melodic and rhythmic variations of learned songs by singing and using instruments.Cr.9.5.2

      3. 3

        Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic accompaniments to songs using pitched and unpitched classroom instruments and/or electronic sound sources.Cr.9.5.3

  • 10

    Create a varied repertoire of music by representing audiated and aurally perceived music. 

    1.  

      TRANSFORM

      1. 1

        Demonstrate the rhythm, melody, and form of an audiation and/or aurally perceived song through traditional and/or nontraditional notation. Cr.10.5.1

  • 11

    Create a varied repertoire of music by composing and arranging music with both traditional and nontraditional notation.

    1.  

      CREATE

      1. 1

        Plan, notate, and perform rhythmic speech compositions with text, including performance indicators such as tempo and dynamics.Cr.11.5.1

      2. 2

        Create, notate, and perform songs in a variety of meters.Cr.11.5.2

      3. 3

        Plan, arrange, and perform accompaniments to given melodies within specific guidelines. Cr.11.5.3

Frequently asked questions

What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 3, Grade 4, and Grade 5
Where can I read the official document?
2023 Indiana Academic Standards: Grades K-12 Music

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