Music: Grade 5

Listen to, apply criteria, and interpret the artist’s intended meaning.A1

  • a

    Describe and interpret music ideas using appropriate terminology for music elements.B.5.A1.a

  • b

    Explore the personal, cultural, and historical background of an artist to gain perspective on their intent.B.5.A1.b

Interpret and express music through movement.A2

  • a

    Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and expressive qualities of music through structured and improvised movement.B.5.A2.a

Connect with a variety of musical experiences through relationships between music and personal understandings.B1

  • a

    Demonstrate and explore how personal interests and skills relate to choices when creating, performing, and responding to music.B.5.B1.a

Connect with a variety of musical experiences through the relations between music, the other arts, and other disciplines.B2

  • a

    Demonstrate and explore how music relates to other disciplines when creating, performing, and responding to music.B.5.B2.a

Connect with a variety of musical experiences through the relationships between music, history, and culture.B3

  • a

    Demonstrate and explore characteristics of music from a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding to music.B.5.B3.a

Perform a rich and diverse repertoire of music.C1

  • a

    Sing in head voice with increasing pitch accuracy, with proper posture, breath support, and appropriate tone.B.5.C1.a

  • b

    Perform songs on a variety of classroom instruments with appropriate technique, in various tonalities and meters, with appropriate dynamics and articulations.B.5.C1.b

  • c

    Perform a rich and diverse repertoire with increasing technical accuracy and proper technique at a consistent tempo.B.5.C1.c

Apply criteria and feedback to rehearse and re-create musical experiences.C2

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    Recreate music experiences alone or with others, in formal and/or informal settings. Reflect on and refine performances by applying feedback.B.5.C2.a

Audiate and communicate musical ideas.D1

  • a

    Demonstrate the ability to audiate by accurately recreating familiar and unfamiliar musical ideas alone.B.5.D1.a

Read and communicate musical ideas using terms and symbols.D2

  • a

    Echo, decode, and read, with accuracy, a variety of tonal and rhythmic patterns and songs performed instrumentally and/or vocally.B.5.D2.a

  • b

    Identify (visually and aurally), describe, and demonstrate musical terms and elements.B.5.D2.b

Generate and conceptualize musical ideas.E1

  • a

    Improvise/create, both vocally and instrumentally, melodic and rhythmic phrases to express a musical idea which conveys a specific purpose.B.5.E1.a

Organize and develop musical ideas to achieve a creative goal.E2

  • a

    Plan, create, notate, and refine rhythmic and melodic patterns to convey musical ideas.B.5.E2.a

Refine and complete music work.E3

  • a

    Use feedback to refine musical ideas.B.5.E3.a

Identify positive inter- and intra-personal skills that impact the quality of a musician’s art and participation in the arts.F1

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    Identify and demonstrate skills and habits that positively affect group music-making goals.B.5.F1.a

Make technical and expressive adjustments to meet the goals of the performing group.F2

  • a

    Use visual and auditory cues from others to adjust a performance.B.5.F2.a

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