Indiana Grades 3–5 Music Standards

The Grades 3–5 standards

Connect 7

• Cn.1.5.1

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

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35)

• Cn.1.5.2

  Identify and practice life skills developed in music studies and activities, such as cooperation, effort, perseverance, and respect, that transfer to other disciplines and contexts.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Introduction to Music Class (3, Wk 1); Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27); Harmonizing Part II (3, Wk 30); Chromatic Intervals (3, Wk 33)

• Cn.2.5.1

  Discover, identify, and explore how music connects to language arts, mathematics, and/or science.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Finding notes on the Treble Clef (1, Wk 3); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Hi High C (K, Wk 11); C & G Best Friends (K, Wk 18)

• Cn.2.5.2

  Discover, identify, and explore how music connects to other arts and humanities.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Solfege Hand-Sign Review (2, Wk 25); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); C Major Scale (1, Wk 32); Low C, High C (PK, Wk 7)

• Cn.3.5.1

  Identify, explore, and perform music associated with historical periods and connect to state, regional, and national events.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Do Mi Sol Slide (PK, Wk 5); Do Re Mi Intro (PK, Wk 16)

• Cn.3.5.2

  Compare and contrast contemporary American music with various world cultures through live or recorded authentic performances.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35); Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23)

• Cn.3.5.3

  Recognize and describe various roles of musicians in society.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Chromatic Intervals (3, Wk 33); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4)

Listen/Respond 6

• Lr.4.5.1

  Audiate and accurately speak or sing from notated music familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and tonalities.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 10); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20)

• Lr.5.5.1

  Define expressive music terms and apply them to selected musical examples.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Singing (2, Wk 21)

• Lr.5.5.2

  Develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply these criteria to performances.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Chord Progressions Part I (5, Wk 18)

• Lr.6.5.1

  Use conducting and other types of movement to demonstrate rhythmic patterns and simple and compound meters.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3); Rhythm Reivew Part II (3, Wk 4); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22)

• Lr.6.5.2

  Demonstrate changes in melodic contour and simple harmonic progression through movement.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Reivew Part II (3, Wk 4); Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Lightly Row Performance Part I - Steps & Skips (2, Wk 33)

• Lr.6.5.3

  Identify and express age appropriate music concepts including form, phrasing, expressive qualities, and timbre through movement in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Chord Progressions Part II (5, Wk 19); Strumming Bonus Tip (5, Wk 23); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

Perform 8

• P.7.5.1

  Sing in groups and independently while demonstrating appropriate breath control, pitch, diction, tone quality, and posture.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Recorder Knight 4 - Acka Backa (4, Wk 15); Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11)

• P.7.5.2

  Sing songs from diverse cultures with sensitivity, accurate use of languages, appropriate movement, and/or appropriate use of dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3); Rhythm Reivew Part II (3, Wk 4); Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2)

• P.7.5.3

  Sing unison and two-part songs, partner songs, and rounds, a cappella and with varied accompaniment.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8); Hello C Chord Part II (5, Wk 9); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26)

• P.7.5.4

  Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences while following the cues of a conductor.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Dragon 2 - C to G Five Note Scale (4, Wk 29); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 35); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); The Chords on the Bus (PK, Wk 14)

• P.8.5.1

  Play pitched and unpitched percussion, keyboard, string, and/or wind instruments using correct techniques for producing sound.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 5 - The Rainbows Shine (4, Wk 26); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Hello F Chord Part I (5, Wk 16); Fretting Technique (5, Wk 25)

• P.8.5.2

  Play melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns at a consistent tempo.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13); Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22); Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2)

• P.8.5.3

  Play melodies, accompaniments, and ensemble parts of various styles and cultures on instruments expressively with correct rhythms, tempi, and dynamics.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Recorder King/Queen 4 - Dynamics (4, Wk 25); Chord Progressions Part III (5, Wk 20)

• P.8.5.4

  Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences while following the cues of a conductor.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Dragon 2 - C to G Five Note Scale (4, Wk 29); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 35); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); The Chords on the Bus (PK, Wk 14)

Create 7

• Cr.9.5.1

  Improvise independently and cooperatively successive melodic phrases to create a song.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, and A (4, Wk 17); Recorder Lord/Lady 6 - Improvisation & Composing with E, G, A, B, D (4, Wk 22); Fourths Part II (3, Wk 15); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19)

• Cr.9.5.2

  Improvise single-line melodic and rhythmic variations of learned songs by singing and using instruments.

  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); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19)

• Cr.9.5.3

  Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic accompaniments to songs using pitched and unpitched classroom instruments and/or electronic sound sources.

  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); Seconds - Part I (3, Wk 8); Sixths Part II (3, Wk 25)

• Cr.10.5.1

  Demonstrate the rhythm, melody, and form of an audiation and/or aurally perceived song through traditional and/or nontraditional notation.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31)

• Cr.11.5.1

  Plan, notate, and perform rhythmic speech compositions with text, including performance indicators such as tempo and dynamics.

• Cr.11.5.2

  Create, notate, and perform songs in a variety of meters.

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

• Cr.11.5.3

  Plan, arrange, and perform accompaniments to given melodies within specific guidelines.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Treble Clef Reivew (3, Wk 2); Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); C Major Songs - What song is it? (2, Wk 27)