5th Grade


5th Grade

Shades of Blue (Blues Improvisation)

for the Accompaniment, click here

Things we learn:

>Xylophones

>Notation

>Composition

>Improvisation

>Dynamics, tempo, meter, articulation

>Form

>Harmony

>Triplets (notes)

>Syncopated rhythms

>Eighth rests

>Sixteenth rests

>Bass clef & Treble clef sign

>Grand Staff

Colorado State Standards and Grade Level Expectations:


Standard 1: Expression

  • Perform songs that demonstrate learned rhythmic, melodic, and chordal accompaniment components.

  • Perform extended notated songs with accurate pitch, rhythm, tone, harmony, and expressive elements. (follow the cues of a director)

  • Apply teacher and peer critique and self-reflection to refine individual and ensemble technique and performance.

Standard 2: Creation of Music

  • Compose, improvise, and arrange melody with rhythmic accompaniment. (compose a melody with accompaniment; improvise a melody over accompaniment; arrange an accompaniment to go with a melody)

Standard 3: Theory of Music

  • Identify and demonstrate complex notated melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns. (whole/half steps; syncopation; I-V, V-I, I-IV-V-I)

  • Identify and demonstrate new and learned tempos, dynamics, and articulations.

  • Identify and apply complex form, meter, and timbre elements. (DS al coda; DC al fine; 1st/2nd endings; time signature; world instruments)

Standard 4: Aesthetic Valuation of Music

  • Create and use specific criteria in making judgments about the quality of a musical performance. (preference vs. quality of a musical work)

  • Identify differences and commonalities in music from different historical periods and different cultures.