North Carolina Grade 4 Music Standards

The Grade 4 standards

Connect 5

• 4.CN.1.1

  Describe styles and musicians who have influenced, or been influenced by, the customs and traditions of indigenous and other cultural groups in North Carolina.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21); Lightly Row Performance Part I - Steps & Skips (2, Wk 33); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17)

• 4.CN.1.2

  Describe how other content areas can inspire programmatic music, soundscapes, or concepts.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 36); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 36); C and Shh (PK, Wk 3); Best Friends, C and G (PK, Wk 4)

• 4.CN.1.3

  Describe personal emotions and memories evoked by a variety of music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20)

• 4.CN.2.1

  Describe music careers in North Carolina.

• 4.CN.2.2

  Compare how music has changed and remained the same with advances in technology and digital media.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Key of G Major (3, Wk 34); F Major Chord (2, Wk 15); Beet & Guava (1, Wk 19); Beet & Watermelon (K, Wk 16)

Create 4

• 4.CR.1.1

  Improvise pentatonic melodies over an ostinato.

  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); 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 27)

• 4.CR.1.2

  Notate or record 4-8 measures of original rhythmic ideas and melodic ideas for two or more performers that incorporate grade-level appropriate rhythms and pitches.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Seconds - Part I (3, Wk 8); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 3)

• 4.CR.2.1

  Align original poetry with a pre-existing melody; or a pre-existing piece of poetry with an original melody.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Recorder Knight 2 - Breath Technique (4, Wk 13); Wheels on the Bus (2, Wk 32); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35)

• 4.CR.2.2

  Identify how to responsibly use resources for online access of music. PRESENT (PR)—Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13)

Present 6

• 4.PR.1.1

  Improve compositions and musical skills by applying feedback from peers or self based on student-generated criteria.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); C Major Songs - What song is it? (2, Wk 27); Lightly Row Performance Part IV - Performance (2, Wk 36)

• 4.PR.1.2

  Read standard notation to sing or play music using any major key, and dotted quarters and groups of three eighth notes and rests in 6/8 meter, and beamed sixteenth and eighth note rhythms in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meters.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Treble Clef Reivew (3, Wk 2); Rhythm Review Part III (3, Wk 5); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Grapefruit Review (1, Wk 25)

• 4.PR.1.3

  Sing or play songs with occasional harmonizations.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 8); G Major Chord (1, Wk 22); F Major Chord (1, Wk 24); C Major & G Major (K, Wk 26)

• 4.PR.1.4

  Demonstrate the meaning of symbols and terminology for the continua of tempos and dynamics, including crescendos and decrescendos, and a variety of forms and articulations when performing music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); 1 8 They're Great (K, Wk 13); Birds Fly (K, Wk 14); Mi Sol La Intro (PK, Wk 21)

• 4.PR.2.1

  Compare, with guidance, music to perform and the production elements needed to support the context and purpose of a performance.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Knight 1 - Let Us Play E G A (4, Wk 12); Recorder King/Queen 1 - Let Us Play Low C & D (4, Wk 23); Fifths Part II (3, Wk 18); Sixths Part I (3, Wk 24)

• 4.PR.2.2

  Create criteria for audience and performer etiquette in a variety of contexts.

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

Respond 5

• 4.RE.1.1

  Identify symbols and terminology for tempos, dynamics, including crescendos and decrescendos, and a variety of forms and articulations in aural and written musical works.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Finding notes on the Treble Clef (1, Wk 3); Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19)

• 4.RE.1.2

  Compare different interpretations of the same musical work using musical vocabulary.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Inverse Intervals (3, Wk 26); Chord Theory Part III (5, Wk 32); F Major Chord (2, Wk 15)

• 4.RE.1.3

  Describe the timbres of a variety of instruments and voices used in diverse types of ensembles.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Welcome (5, Wk 1); Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22); Parts of the Ukulele (5, Wk 3)

• 4.RE.2.1

  Compare personal responses to a musical work before and after engaging with similar musical works.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Fifths Part I (3, Wk 17); Seconds, Thirds and Fourths Review (3, Wk 16); Perfect Intervals Review (3, Wk 23); Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1)

• 4.RE.2.2

  Generate criteria in collaboration with others for evaluating musical performances and compositions.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9); Four Finger Fretting Exercise (5, Wk 26); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Upbeat (1, Wk 2)