3rd Grade Music

Three Village District Essentials

Creating

  • Generate rhythmic and melodic ideas, and identify connection to a specific purpose and/or context

  • Generate musical ideas within a given tonality and meter

  • Demonstrate and identify selected musical ideas for a simple arrangement or composition

  • Combine, sequence, and document musical ideas

  • Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to music, applying teacher provided criteria and feedback

Performing

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the elements of music

  • Read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns

  • Demonstrate and identify the context and how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities

  • Apply established criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of performance

  • Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues

  • Perform music with expression and technical accuracy

  • Perform appropriately for the audience, venue, and context

Responding

  • Demonstrate and identify how selected music connects and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes

  • Describe and identify how a response to music can be informed by the use of elements of music and by context

  • Apply established criteria to evaluate musical works and performances, identifying appropriateness of context

Connecting

  • Generate musical soundscapes to portray stories, characters, emotions, and/or ideas

  • Describe places, times, and reasons for making and listening to music

  • Perform folk dances from a variety of cultures

  • Manipulate music concepts in order to express ideas