Alaska Grade 4 Music Standards

The Grade 4 standards

Creating 5

• MU:CR1a-4

  Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (personal and social/cultural).

  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)

• MU:CR1b-4

  Generate musical ideas (rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (major and minor) and meters.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Semitones (3, Wk 32); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3)

• MU:CR2a-4

  Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent and explain connection to purpose/ context.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Chord Progressions Part I (5, Wk 18); Chord Theory Part I (5, Wk 30)

• MU:CR2b-4

  Use standard or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 3); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19)

• MU:CR3a-4

  Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying collaboratively- developed and teacher criteria/feedback, to show improvement over time.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1)

Performing 4

• MU:PR4a-4

  Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, cultural background, knowledge, context, and technical skill.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34); Rhythm (2, Wk 22); Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1)

• MU:PR5a-4

  Apply established criteria and teacher/peer feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble and personal performances.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Recorder Knight 3 - Doggie, Doggie (4, Wk 14); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)

• MU:PR6a-4

  Perform music, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Recorder Knight 1 - Let Us Play E G A (4, Wk 12); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

• MU:PR6b-4

  Demonstrate performance and audience etiquette appropriate for context, venue, and genre.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 36); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36)

Responding 4

• MU:RE7a-4

  Explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences or purposes.

  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)

• MU:RE7b-4

  Demonstrate and explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, use of the elements of music, context (personal, cultural, social).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Welcome (5, Wk 1); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)

• MU:RE8a-4

  Demonstrate and explain expressive qualities (dynamics, tempo, timbre) and how they support creators’/performers’ expressive intent.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14)

• MU:RE9a-4

  Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Recorder Knight 3 - Doggie, Doggie (4, Wk 14); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 36); 1 8 They're Great (K, Wk 13)

Connecting 10

• MU:CO10a-4

  Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, responding to music.

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

• MU:CO10b-4

  Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent; explain connection to purpose and context.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Recorder Knight 3 - Doggie, Doggie (4, Wk 14); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

• MU:CO10c-4

  Present the final version of created music for others, and explain connection to expressive intent.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); C Major Scale Review Part I (2, Wk 1); Singing (2, Wk 21)

• MU:CO10d-4

  Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder Knight 1 - Let Us Play E G A (4, Wk 12); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

• MU:CO11a-4

  Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: C and Shh (PK, Wk 3); Best Friends, C and G (PK, Wk 4); Low C, High C (PK, Wk 7); Left C, Right c (PK, Wk 8)

• MU:CO11b-4

  Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (social, cultural).

  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); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)

• MU:CO11c-4

  Explain how context (social, cultural) informs a performance.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); 1 8 They're Great (K, Wk 13)

• MU:CO11d-4

  Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 36); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36)

• MU:CO11e-4

  e. Demonstrate and explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (social, cultural).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Welcome (5, Wk 1)

• MU:CO11f-4

  f. Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31)