Standard 1.1

Inquiry Questions:

1. What is a good singing voice?

2. How does music make you feel different?

3. Why do performing groups have conductors?

Relevance and Application:

1. Counting songs, spelling songs, celebration songs, holiday songs, and patriotic songs can be used to deliver content knowledge in musical ways.

2. Singing songs focused on phonemic awareness and using crossbody movements aids in reading and writing skill.

3. Music software and audio devices can be used to demonstrate dynamic changes, tempo changes, and fermatas.

4. Learningtosingalongproductivelywithothersdemonstratesteamwork.

Nature of Music:

1. Musicality is the ability to perform and respond to music in meaningful ways.

Standard 1.2

Inquiry Questions:

1. Are rests as important as notes in music?

2. How do accompaniments change a song?

Relevance and Application:

Mathematic patterns can be identified in music.

There are cultural and historical styles and genres of music that can be identified by their similarities and differences in the simple patterns used in the music.

Music software and audio devices can be used to demonstrate pentatonic scalesand tonic chord accompaniments in simple keys.

When performers respond to patterns and symbols of music, they are communicating a composer’s message just as a reader is communicating an author’s message.

Nature of Music:

1. Music communicates a message.

Standard 2.1

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does movement demonstrate what we hear?

2. Do people only improvise in music?

Relevance and Application:

Using developmentally appropriate movement to respond to music identifies a listeners reaction to the elements used in music.

Using discernment between an existing piece of music and one that has been improvised provides the ability to focus on detail aurally, which strengthens auditory abilities to follow directions, hear phonemic differences, and identify aural patterns in numeracy.

Recognizing the mathematical pattern in simple chords develops strong mathematical sequencing helpful in understanding number lines, simple fractions, and skip counting.

Nature of Music:

1. Creating and responding to music through movement are forms of self-expression.

Standard 2.2

Inquiry Questions:

1. Does music have patterns?

2. Where else can you find patterns?

3. Why are patterns important in music?

Relevance and Application:

Software and other technology tools aid in finding patterns in music.

The ability to find patterns in other disciplines (such as mathematics, visual art, dance, spelling) provides a connection to a deeper understanding of patterns in society.

Describing how patterns change in various songs from different cultures, historical eras, styles, and genres provides insight to how various styles and genres of music are similar and different.

Discussing how simple songs are used in commercials or other mass media creates a connection to how music is used in society.

Nature of Music:

1. Music has many patterns.

Standard 3.1

Inquiry Questions:

1. What makes music interesting to listen to?

2. Why are there changes in tempo and dynamics in music?

Relevance and Application:

Music from various cultures use changes in piano/forte, crescendo/decrescendo, and smooth/connected to convey a message.

Music from various historical periods, genres, and styles use examples of piano/forte, crescendo/decrescendo, and smooth/connected.

Music from various mass media use changes in piano/forte, crescendo/decrescendo, and smooth/connected to convey a desired message. (Relaxation is identified with a soft, smooth musical line; excitement is identified with a loud, accented musical line.)

Nature of Music:

1. The application of expressive elements enhances musical performance.

Standard 3.2

Inquiry Questions:

1. What makes a composition interesting?

2. How will being able to identify notational elements help in music?

3. How do patterns in math help with patterns in music?

4. How do bar lines in music compare to punctuation in writing?

Relevance and Application:

Various musical styles (American folk music, marches, lullabies, holidays) use verse and refrain.

Examples of the ABA and verse and refrain patterns can be found in other disciplines (visual art and design, dance, theatre, poetry).

Identification of the differences and similarities between the alphabet and the musical alphabet provides insight to the understanding that music notation is a distinct language.

Nature of Music:

1. Most musical compositions have a specific structure.

Standard 3.3

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why do voices and instruments sound different?

2. Why do others have different music preferences?

3. How is music used in community events and celebrations?

Relevance and Application:

Recognizing how the vibration of strings, drum heads, or air columns generates sounds provides insight to how sounds in the world are made.

Video clip examples of how tone color is associated with characters in movies, cartoons, etc., help to illustrate what is meant by tone color.

Electronic keyboards contain features that isolate differences in timbres and timbral groupings to provide examples of each for the listener.

Nature of Music:

1. Unique tone qualities are found in varying styles and genres of music.

Standard 3.4

Inquiry Questions:

1. How will knowing notes and rests help me in performing music?

2. How will echoing melodic patterns help me understand a song?

3. How is the step/skip/repeat skill a math problem?

4. How is a pentatonic scale like counting by 5s?

Relevance and Application:

The ability to recognize the patterns that occur in music relates to the patterns that can be found in many disciplines and vocations (mathematics, history, visual art and design, architecture, science).

Musical themes/patterns/textures can be compared to the use of these elements in stories, songs, and other art forms.

Mathematical counting equivalents can be applied to half notes, half rests, whole notes, and whole rests.

Nature of Music:

1. Music notation is a visual representation of organized sound and silence.

2. Patterns occur in music and in the world.

Standard 4.1

Inquiry Questions:

1. When is it appropriate or not appropriate to talk while music is being heard?

2. Why is it important to listen respectfully to live performances?

3. How does an individual contribute to effective music-making?

Relevance and Application:

Understanding situations where music is the focus of attention and contrasting it with situations where music is a secondary element is one example of how music is adjusted to its role in the texture of an overall project.

Reactions of listeners during a presentation of live music as opposed to recorded music vary because of the societal expectations of each situation.

Individuals make choices about musical preferences based on many reasons, such as family preferences, popular media, and a wide or limited exposure to diverse forms of music.

Nature of Music:

1. Music is an art that deals specifically with sound, so it is important to assist in providing an environment that is conducive to focused listening.

2. Musical choices may be made on the basis of both musical and non musical criteria.

Standard 4.2

Inquiry Questions:

1. How can movement reflect the expressive qualities of music? 2. Howdoesmusicaffectemotionsandfeelingsingeneral?

3. How are passive and active listening different?

Relevance and Application:

Appropriate audience behavior relies on an individual’s self-directionability, the ability to discern the role of an audience (e.g. some performances encourage audience participation, some performances require active listening), and the willingness to submit individual desires to the need for consideration of the experience of others.

Audiences have varying purposes throughout society.(Athletic events encourage audience noise. Political audiences express their agreement or disagreement in various ways. Formal presentations expect restraint and applause.)

A common and specific musical vocabulary is important when discussing the evaluation of music works and performances or in defending individual musical preferences.

Nature of Music:

1. Music may be experienced passively or actively as a listener.

Standard 4.3

Inquiry Questions:

1. How often do people listen to and move to music for enjoyment?

2. How does a favorite song make a person feel?

3. Why is it important to experience a variety of music from different cultures?

4. How do individuals experience music in different ways?

Relevance and Application:

1. Articulating uses of music in a local community, family, or culture can be done through researching societal trends and influences.

2. The importance of music goes beyond entertainment and is used to express such things as strong emotions and celebrations, and to document important events in history.

Nature of Music:

1. Music provides societal and cultural connections that are unique to individuals.