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