Alabama Grade 4 Music Standards

The Grade 4 standards

Creating 6

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CR.1.1

  Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas and explain their connection to specific social and cultural purposes and contexts

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CR.1.2

  Create short melodic ideas within related tonalities and meters

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22); Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CR.2.3

  Select and organize musical ideas to express intent in a creative product and explain the purpose and context

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Scale Review Part I (2, Wk 1); C Major Scale Review Part II (2, Wk 2); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CR.2.4

  Document their ideas for a creative product, using systems of notation or technology

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6); Seconds - Part I (3, Wk 8); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CR.3.5

  Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to their music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 36); Recorder Dragon 4 - Dinosaur (4, Wk 31); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CR.3.6

  Present a final version of their creation for a specific purpose

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Perfect Intervals Review (3, Wk 23); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Major Chords (2, Wk 17)

Performing 8

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.PR.4.7

  Demonstrate and explain how their own technical skill, musical knowledge, and context influence the selection of music selected for performance

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Welcome (5, Wk 1)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.PR.4.8

  Explain and demonstrate how the elements of music influence the formal structure of music selected for performance

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 34); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34); F Major Chord (2, Wk 15)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.PR.4.9

  Use teacher and student-created criteria to identify and refine rhythmic and melodic patterns in the music selected for performance

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3); Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.PR.4.10

  Explain how context informs a performance

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 15); 1 8 They're Great (K, Wk 13); Birds Fly (K, Wk 14)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.PR.4.11

  Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Muffin Man (2, Wk 29); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.PR.5.12

  Use teacher and collaboratively created criteria to evaluate the accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of music being prepared for performance

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.PR.5.13

  Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part III - Rehearsal (2, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.PR.6.14

  Perform a varied repertoire of music alone and with others and evaluate the performance based on personal, peer, teacher, or professional criteria

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 36)

Responding 4

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.RE.7.15

  Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.RE.7.16

  Demonstrate and explain how a response to music can be informed by its structure, the use of musical elements, and context

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Seconds - Part III (3, Wk 10); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Singing (2, Wk 21)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.RE.8.17

  Demonstrate and explain how expressive qualities are used in performers’ and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.RE.9.18

  Evaluate musical works and performances, applying teacher and collaboratively created criteria, to describe their appropriateness for the context

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7); Fourths Part I (3, Wk 14); Fifths Part II (3, Wk 18)

Connecting 3

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CN.10.19

  Demonstrate and explain how their personal knowledge, interests, ideas, and choices aid them when creating, performing, and responding to music

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1, Wk 29)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CN.11.20

  Investigate how cultural, historical, and societal context contribute to musicians' understanding when creating, performing, and responding to music

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Recorder Knight 3 - Doggie, Doggie (4, Wk 14); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Fourths Part I (3, Wk 14)

• AE24.MU.3-5.4.CN.11.21

  Demonstrate performer and audience behaviors appropriate for Grades 3-5 students for a variety of venues and contexts

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 1 - Let Us Play High c and High c (4, Wk 18); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36)