Fourth Grade - Illinois Music Standards
Creating/ Music Literacy
- Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas with rhythm.
- Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic and simple harmonic musical ideas with melody.
- Refine & document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.
- Present the final version of personal created music to others and explain connection to expressive intent.
- Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose & context (i.e., social, cultural, historical).
- Demonstrate selected & organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.
Performing
- Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and musicianship.
- Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music in music selected for performance.
- Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decision and expressive qualities (i.e., dynamics, tempo. timbre).
- When analyzing selected music, read & perform using iconic and/or standard notation with rhythm.
- When analyzing selected music, read & perform using iconic and/or standard notation with melody.
- Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.
- Perform music, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.
- Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre.
Responding
- Demonstrate & explain how selected music concepts to and is influenced b specific interests, experiences, purposes or contexts.
- Demonstrate & describe how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of elements of music, and context (i.e., social, cultural).
- Demonstrate & explain how expressive qualities (i.e., dynamics, tempo, timbre) are used in performers' and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.
- Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.
Connecting
- Demonstrate how interests, knowledge and skills relate to personal choices & intent when creating, performing and responding to music as developmentally appropriate.
- Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts and daily life as developmentally appropriate.