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clear Content Area: Music - 2022 // Grade Level: First Grade // Standard Category: 2. Creation of Music
clear Content Area: Music - 2022 // Grade Level: Second Grade // Standard Category: 2. Creation of Music
clear Content Area: Music - 2022 // Grade Level: Third Grade // Standard Category: 2. Creation of Music
clear Content Area: Music - 2022 // Grade Level: Fourth Grade // Standard Category: 2. Creation of Music
clear Content Area: Music - 2022 // Grade Level: Fifth Grade // Standard Category: 2. Creation of Music
Music - 2022
First Grade, Standard 2. Creation of Music
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Compose, improvise, and arrange sounds and musical ideas to communicate purposeful intent.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Create, document, improvise, and arrange short phrases using rhythm and/or pitch.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Create and document a short instrumental and vocal pattern to accompany culturally diverse poems, rhymes, and stories.
- Improvise short patterns using learned pitches and rhythms.
- Arrange instrumental and vocal patterns to enhance culturally diverse poems, rhymes, stories and songs. (e.g., create a spooky soundscape to go with a Halloween poem; create a happy pattern to be background music for a happy part of a story)
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Composing, improvising, and arranging help to synthesize ideas in original and surprising ways. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Composing, improvising, and arranging cause one to innovate from failure, connect learning across domains, and recognize new opportunities. (Adaptability and Flexibility)
- Creating music requires consideration of purpose, audience, planning, and delivery. (Civic Engagement)
Inquiry Questions:
- How can music help to tell a story?
- Why are phrases important in music?
- How does music notation help a musical creator share and save their music?
Expand and Connect:
- Students can use technology to create, sample and manipulate sound effects. They can also use the internet as a resource for sounds.
- Exploring how music fits a story can lead to the connection between music and language arts.
- Using expressive elements in creating music can give students a deeper understanding of these fundamentals.
- Creating patterns in music can provide insight to identifying patterns in the world around them.
Music - 2022
Second Grade, Standard 2. Creation of Music
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Compose, improvise, and arrange sounds and musical ideas to communicate purposeful intent.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Create, document, improvise, and arrange phrases using rhythm and/or pitch.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Create and document instrumental and vocal patterns using known rhythms and pitches.
- Improvise instrumentally and/or vocally question-answer patterns using known rhythms and pitches.
- Arrange a song by adding an ostinato using known pitches and rhythms (e.g., let students design a minor ostinato to accompany a minor song they are singing in class; instructor gives the students the pitches and the students choose how to use them).
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Composing, improvising, and arranging helps to synthesize ideas in original and surprising ways. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Composing, improvising, and arranging cause one to innovate from failure, connect learning across domains, and recognize new opportunities. (Perseverance and Resilience)
- Creating music requires consideration of purpose, audience, planning, and delivery. (Civic Engagement)
Inquiry Questions:
- Where else can you improvise?
- How is improvisation like brainstorming?
- How is improvising like having a conversation?
Expand and Connect:
- Crafting an improvised phrase provides the ability to focus on aural detail, strengthening other auditory abilities. (e.g., hearing phonemic differences, identify aural patterns in numeracy, ability to follow directions)
- Technology can be used as a tool to record and/or create music for student self-reflection.
- The ability to create patterns in music can be connected to patterns in other disciplines (e.g., math, visual art, dance, spelling).
Music - 2022
Third Grade, Standard 2. Creation of Music
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Compose, improvise, and arrange sounds and musical ideas to communicate purposeful intent.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Compose, improvise, and arrange in known musical forms using rhythm and/or pitch.
Evidence Outcomes:
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Composing, improvising, and arranging help to synthesize ideas in original and surprising ways. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Composing, improvising, and arranging cause one to innovate from failure, connect learning across domains, and recognize new opportunities. (Self-Awareness)
- Creating music requires consideration of purpose, audience, planning, and delivery. (Civic Engagement)
Inquiry Questions:
- How are specific criteria in creating music similar to specific criteria in writing?
- What other areas of your life do you improvise?
- What are some characteristics of your favorite melodies?
Expand and Connect:
- Using technology to record or create short musical segments provides a connection to modern technology tools used in composing, improvising and arranging.
- Creating new music or improvising within music requires risk-taking and critical-thinking abilities.
- Building a great story and building a great composition follow the same process and contain the same elements (e.g., introduction, conflict, climax, resolution).
Music - 2022
Fourth Grade, Standard 2. Creation of Music
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Compose, improvise, and arrange sounds and musical ideas to communicate purposeful intent.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Compose, improvise, and arrange musical ideas using rhythms and pitches.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Create and document melodic and/or rhythmic composition in known form using known rhythms and pitches.
- Generate and improvise musical ideas using known rhythms and pitches.
- Arrange a known melody by changing a musical component such as the style (e.g., students in a small group can arrange a song giving it a rap or rock 'n' roll feel using cymbals and drums).
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Composing, improvising, and arranging help to synthesize ideas in original and surprising ways. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Composing, improvising, and arranging cause one to innovate from failure, connect learning across domains, and recognize new opportunities. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Creating music requires consideration of purpose, audience, planning, and delivery. (Civic Engagement)
Inquiry Questions:
- How is creating and documenting music related to writing stories?
- How does improvising with voice differ from improvising on a different instrument?
- Why is knowing prescribed criteria important when composing or arranging music?
- What jobs require improvising, composing, or arranging skills?
Expand and Connect:
- Creating music using musical elements (e.g., form, rhythm, pitch, dynamics) leads to a better understanding of musical elements in larger pieces.
- Basic musical structure learned through creating music can be transferred to one's ability to write a structured sentence or paragraph in literature.
Music - 2022
Fifth Grade, Standard 2. Creation of Music
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Compose, improvise, and arrange sounds and musical ideas to communicate purposeful intent.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Compose, improvise, and arrange a musical idea using rhythm and pitches with accompaniment.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Create and document a melodic and/or rhythmic composition with accompaniment to present a chosen style or mood.
- Generate and improvise musical ideas over an accompaniment (e.g., 12-bar blues, changing chord ostinati or other accompaniment, vocal ostinati).
- Arrange an accompaniment to go with a melody.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills:
- Composing, improvising, and arranging help to synthesize ideas in original and surprising ways. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Composing, improvising, and arranging cause one to innovate from failure, connect learning across domains, and recognize new opportunities. (Creativity and Innovation)
- Creating music requires consideration of purpose, audience, planning, and delivery. (Civic Engagement)
Inquiry Questions:
- How does improvising music help to create and express ideas?
- How can an accompaniment change the style of the music?
- Why is it important to learn to notate and/or document music?
Expand and Connect:
- Applying criteria allows students to evaluate the quality of musical creations.
- Technology can be used to create and record student composed and improvised pieces.
- Understanding how other disciplines use the idea of arrangement, provide students with a deeper understanding of arranging a piece of music (e.g., still life or photo composition; choreography of a dance; blocking of a scene in a play; design of visual presentation).
- Understanding the basic structural elements used to write short musical phrases provides a foundation for understanding the structural elements of more complex musical compositions.
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