AZ Arts Standards: General Music · Grade 1 · 19 standards
Arizona Grade 1 Music Standards
Every Grade 1 standard from the Arizona Academic Standards in the Arts, General Music (2015), grouped by strand, with the Prodigies PK-5 lessons that teach each one.
Grade 1 has 19 music standards in Arizona: Creating (6); Performing (7); Responding (2); Connecting (4).
Prodigies PK-5 has a lesson for 18 of 19 of them.
| Official name | Arizona Academic Standards in the Arts, General Music (2015) |
|---|---|
| Published by | Arizona Department of Education |
| Adopted | 2015 |
| Grades on this page | Grade 1 |
| Standards on this page | 19 |
| Code format | MU.CR.1.1a |
| Organized by | Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting |
| Official source | azed.gov |
The Grade 1 standards
Creating 6
MU.CR.1.1aa. With appropriate guidance, improvise musical ideas (e.g. beat, meter, and rhythm).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 9); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19)
MU.CR.1.1bb. With appropriate guidance, generate musical ideas in multiple tonalities (e.g. major, minor, modal, and pentatonic) and meters (e.g. duple, triple, simple, and compound). 1st
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22); Solfege Slide in C Major (PK, Wk 6); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Perfect Intervals Review (3, Wk 23)
MU.CR.2.1aa. With appropriate guidance, demonstrate and discuss personal reasons for selecting musical ideas (e.g. expressive intent).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 8); Fa, Sol, La (1, Wk 12); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)
MU.CR.2.1bb. With appropriate guidance use notation to document and organize personal or collective musical ideas. 1st
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Melodies, Lines and Spaces (1, Wk 4); Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 3)
MU.CR.3.1aa. With appropriate guidance, discuss and apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to refine personal musical ideas.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7)
MU.CR.3.1bb. With appropriate guidance, present a final version of personal or collective musical ideas to peers or informal audience.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 35); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 36); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36)
Performing 7
MU.PR.4.1aa. With appropriate guidance, demonstrate and state personal interest in varied musical selections (e.g. knowledge, purpose).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35); Recorder King/Queen 4 - Dynamics (4, Wk 25)
MU.PR.4.1bb. With appropriate guidance, demonstrate knowledge of musical concepts in music from a variety of cultures selected for performance (e.g. beat and melodic contour).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Tuning your Ukulele (5, Wk 4); Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21)
MU.PR.4.1cc. With appropriate guidance, read and perform rhythmic and melodic patterns using notation (e.g. traditional notation).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 28); Lightly Row Performance Part I - Steps & Skips (2, Wk 33); Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6); Rhythm (2, Wk 22)
MU.PR.4.1dd. Explore and describe musical concepts (e.g. voice quality, movement, dynamics, tempo, and melodic contour).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26); Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14)
MU.PR.5.1aa. With appropriate guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performance.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26)
MU.PR.6.1aa. With appropriate guidance, perform music with expression (e.g. dynamics).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13)
MU.PR.6.1bb. Perform appropriately for the audience and occasion.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36)
Responding 2
MU.RE.7.1aa. With appropriate guidance, list personal musical interests.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20); Lucy Locket (PK, Wk 22)
MU.RE.7.1bb. With appropriate guidance, demonstrate musical concepts in various styles of music (e.g. beat and pitch). 1st MU.RE.8.1 a. With appropriate guidance, identify expressive attributes that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent (e.g. dynamics). 1st MU.RE.9.1 a. With appropriate guidance, apply teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36); Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35)
Connecting 4
MU.CN.10.1aa. With appropriate guidance, express personal preferences in music.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20)
MU.CN.10.1bb. With appropriate guidance, explore various uses of music in daily experiences (e.g. songs of celebration, game songs, marches, T.V., movie, and video game sound tracks, dance music, and work songs). 1st
Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); G Major Chord (1, Wk 22); F Major Chord (1, Wk 24); Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22)
MU.CN.11.1aa. With appropriate guidance, explore relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17); Chord Progressions Part I (5, Wk 18); Merrily We Roll Along (PK, Wk 18); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19)
MU.CN.11.1bb. With appropriate guidance, explore how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21)
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