4th Grade Music Essential Standards
Note on Numbering/Strands: ML-Musical Literacy, MR- Musical Response, CR-Contextual Relevancy
4.ML.1: Apply the elements of musical techniques in order to sing and play music with accuracy and expression.
1.1: Illustrate independence when singing and playing instruments within a group or ensemble.
1.2: Use accruate pitch to sing ostinati, partner songs, and rounds in two parts
1.3: Use the voice and/or instruments to create and execute melodic movement through pentatonic melodies on the treble staff
1.4: Apply elemental changes (including changes to dynamics, tempo, timbre, or texture) when singing or playing music,
4.ML.2: Interpret the sound and symbol systems of music.
2.1: Execute rhythm patterns including whole, half, dotted half, quarter and eighth notes and rests in 2/4. 3/4, and 4/4 meter.
2.2: Use a system to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys.
2.3: Interpret music symbols and tradtitional terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation correctly while performing music.
2.4: Use standard symbols to notate rhythm, meter, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns.
4.ML.3: Create music using a variety of sound and notational sources.
3.1: Create rhythmic compositions which include the use of whole. half, dotted half, quarter notes and rests, and beamed eighth notes in
duple and triple time and are arranged using a variety of sound sources.
3.2: Use compositional techniques to generate sound sequences or arrangements using a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound
sources with an emphasis on timbre.
3.3: Create four measure pentatonic compositions using appropriate musical notation.
3.4: Use improvisation to create music
4.MR.1: Understand the interacting elements to respond to music and music performances.
1.1: Interpret conductor cues to respond appropriately when singing and playing music.
1.2: Classify instruments into tradional Western music symphonic categories of wind, string, percussion and brass and into accepted
categories which may be applied to all instruments of chordophone, aerophone, mambranophone, idiophone, and electrophone.
1.3: Use appropriate terminology when describing music that is presented aurally.
1.4: Design a set of criteria for evaluating performances and compositions.
1.5: Exemplify appropriate audience behavior appropriate to the context and style of music performed.
4.CR.1: Understand global, interdisciplinary, and 21st centery connections with music.
1.1. Understand how music has aaffected and is reflected in the culture, beliefs, and history of NC.
1.2: Summarize various roles of music and musicians.
1.3: Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other dieciplines taught within the school are interrelated with those of music.
1.4: Compare meanings of common terms and elements used in the arts on the basis of how they are used within each art form.
1.5: Classify aural examples of music form various historical periods and cultures in terms of genre or style.
4.ML.1: Apply the elements of musical techniques in order to sing and play music with accuracy and expression.
1.1: Illustrate independence when singing and playing instruments within a group or ensemble.
1.2: Use accruate pitch to sing ostinati, partner songs, and rounds in two parts
1.3: Use the voice and/or instruments to create and execute melodic movement through pentatonic melodies on the treble staff
1.4: Apply elemental changes (including changes to dynamics, tempo, timbre, or texture) when singing or playing music,
4.ML.2: Interpret the sound and symbol systems of music.
2.1: Execute rhythm patterns including whole, half, dotted half, quarter and eighth notes and rests in 2/4. 3/4, and 4/4 meter.
2.2: Use a system to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys.
2.3: Interpret music symbols and tradtitional terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation correctly while performing music.
2.4: Use standard symbols to notate rhythm, meter, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns.
4.ML.3: Create music using a variety of sound and notational sources.
3.1: Create rhythmic compositions which include the use of whole. half, dotted half, quarter notes and rests, and beamed eighth notes in
duple and triple time and are arranged using a variety of sound sources.
3.2: Use compositional techniques to generate sound sequences or arrangements using a variety of traditional and non-traditional sound
sources with an emphasis on timbre.
3.3: Create four measure pentatonic compositions using appropriate musical notation.
3.4: Use improvisation to create music
4.MR.1: Understand the interacting elements to respond to music and music performances.
1.1: Interpret conductor cues to respond appropriately when singing and playing music.
1.2: Classify instruments into tradional Western music symphonic categories of wind, string, percussion and brass and into accepted
categories which may be applied to all instruments of chordophone, aerophone, mambranophone, idiophone, and electrophone.
1.3: Use appropriate terminology when describing music that is presented aurally.
1.4: Design a set of criteria for evaluating performances and compositions.
1.5: Exemplify appropriate audience behavior appropriate to the context and style of music performed.
4.CR.1: Understand global, interdisciplinary, and 21st centery connections with music.
1.1. Understand how music has aaffected and is reflected in the culture, beliefs, and history of NC.
1.2: Summarize various roles of music and musicians.
1.3: Identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other dieciplines taught within the school are interrelated with those of music.
1.4: Compare meanings of common terms and elements used in the arts on the basis of how they are used within each art form.
1.5: Classify aural examples of music form various historical periods and cultures in terms of genre or style.