Music Standards
LWSD Music Power Standards
What We Work on in Music
at Wilder Elementary!
Pitch
K - different voices (speaking, whisper, singing), high/low, solo singing, instrument exploration (timbre differentiation)
1st - tuneful singing, singing in canon, group singing, solo singing, so/mi/la (reading, writing, performing on voice and pitched instrument), composition
2nd - tuneful singing, healthy vocal production, singing in canon, group singing, solo singing, small group singing, so/mi/la/re/do (reading, writing, performing), composition (whole group and small group)
3rd - Above, adding extended notes (low la, high do), major and minor pentatonic practice with voice and pitched instrument, composition, beginning recorder
4th - Above, adding fa and ti (diatonic scale), choral techniques (part singing, score reading), advanced pitched instrument (recorder, barred instrument)
5th - Above, choral techniques, adding altered tones, beginning music theory (chordal relationships, intervals), advanced recorder/barred instrument, beginning ukulele
Rhythm
K - steady beat, same/different (pre-rhythm/beat differentiation), long/short, pre-rhythm reading, beginning unpitiched percussion technique
1st - steady beat, fast and slow steady beat, beat/rhythm differentiation, quarter (ta) note, eighth (ta-di) notes, quarter rest, perform with unpitched percussion, composition
2nd - Above, adding half note (ta-a) and sixteenth note (takadimi)
3rd - Above, adding quarter-sixteenth and opposite (ta-dimi, taka-di), whole note (ta-a-a-a)
4th - Above, adding dotted notes (tom-ti, ta-mi)
5th - Above, adding triple meter, mixed meter (2 vs. 3), swing
Movement
Pathway, Level, Space, Form, Energy, Focus, Time, Direction