Colorado Grade 5 Music Standards

The Grade 5 standards

Expression 3

• MU.5.1.1

  Perform/Demonstrate music that exhibits learned rhythmic, melodic, and accompaniment components. Students Can: a. Demonstrate and compare and contrast harmonic changes in songs (e.g., major vs. minor, blues, chord progressions, etc.). b. Demonstrate learned melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns using expressive elements. c. Demonstrate songs in major and minor keys.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21); Chord Progressions Part III (5, Wk 20); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20)

• MU.5.1.2

  Perform/Demonstrate extended notated songs with accurate pitch, rhythm, tone, harmony and expressive elements. Students Can: a. Demonstrate multi-layered rhythmic and melodic pieces and songs (e.g., rounds, partner songs, descants) learned from notation. b. Demonstrate following the director’s indications for expressive elements.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Singing (2, Wk 21)

• MU.5.1.3

  Apply teacher and peer critique and self-reflection to refine individual and ensemble technique and performance. Students Can: a. Engage in refinement and feedback processes to prepare music for performance. b. Self-evaluate to refine musical performance. c. Critique expressive elements performed by others.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 35); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); The Chords on the Bus (PK, Wk 14); Do Re Mi Intro (PK, Wk 16)

Creation 1

• MU.5.2.1

  Compose, improvise, and arrange a musical idea using rhythm and pitches with accompaniment. Students Can: a. Create and document a melodic and/or rhythmic composition with accompaniment to present a chosen style or mood. b. Generate and improvise musical ideas over an accompaniment (e.g., 12-bar blues, changing chord ostinati or other accompaniment, vocal ostinati). c. Arrange an accompaniment to go with a melody.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 36); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 36)

Theory 3

• MU.5.3.1

  Identify and demonstrate complex notated melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns. Students Can: a. Melody: Identify and demonstrate awareness of whole/half steps. b. Rhythm: Identify and demonstrate syncopated rhythms. c. Harmony: Identify, perform, or respond to extended harmonic patterns (e.g., I-V, V-I, I-IV-V-I).

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder Lord/Lady 2 - G to D Five Note Scale (4, Wk 19); Recorder King/Queen 2 - Introduction to Transposing (4, Wk 24); Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26); Bonjour B and Sol Ti Re (K, Wk 25)

• MU.5.3.2

  Identify and demonstrate new and learned tempos, dynamics, and articulations. Students Can: a. Tempo: Identify and demonstrate written tempo symbols. b. Dynamics: Identify and demonstrate the written symbols for dynamic changes. c. Articulation: Identify and demonstrate learned written articulations.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6)

• MU.5.3.3

  Identify and apply complex form, meter, and timbre elements. Students Can: a. Form/Structure: Identify D.S. al Coda, D.C. al fine, 1st/2nd endings. b. Meter/Beat Groupings: Identify the purpose of the top and bottom number in a time signature. c. Timbre: Aurally identify 3+ parts, and various world instruments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4)

Response 2

• MU.5.4.1

  Create and use specific criteria in responding to a musical performance. Students Can: a. Discriminate between both musical (rhythm, melody, tempo) and nonmusical (text, feelings) elements that influence musical performance and preference. b. Discuss the difference between preference versus quality of musical works.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Bonus Tip (5, Wk 23); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Harmonizing Part I (3, Wk 29); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

• MU.5.4.2

  Identify differences and commonalities in music from a variety of sources and intentions (e.g. historical periods, cultures, genres). Students Can: a. Describe the use of various timbres and rhythmic patterns and their uses in various historical periods and cultures. b. Communicate similarities and differences in music from various historical periods. c. Communicate ways in which music has been important to people throughout historical periods.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)