Ohio Grade 4 Music Standards

The Grade 4 standards

Creating 3

• 4.1CR

  Improvise rhythms and melodies with attention to cadences and tonal centers within a variety of song forms using a variety of sound sources.

  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); Blues in C Major (2, Wk 19); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34)

• 4.2CR

  Compose using known rhythms, whole notes, dotted notes, sixteenth-note combinations, or syncopated rhythms in a variety of meters using phrase and large form, standard and iconic notation, and a variety of sound sources.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Recorder Knight 5 - Bounce High, Bounce Low (4, Wk 16); Recorder Lord/Lady 1 - Let Us Play High c and High c (4, Wk 18); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4)

• 4.3CR

  Compose extended pentatonic melodies in treble clef using do or la tonal centers.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Chord Progressions Part I (5, Wk 18); Steps (2, Wk 6); Skips (2, Wk 8)

Performing 6

• 4.1PE

  Read and perform using known rhythms, whole notes, dotted notes, sixteenth-note combinations, or syncopated rhythms in a variety of meters.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 9); Beet & Cherry (PK, Wk 25)

• 4.2PE

  Read and perform extended pentatonic melodies in treble clef using do or la tonal centers.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); C Major Scale Review Part I (2, Wk 1); Melodies, Lines and Spaces (1, Wk 4)

• 4.3PE

  Sing (using head voice and appropriate posture) and move to music of various styles, composers, and cultures with accurate pitch, rhythm, and expressive qualities.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Recorder Page 3 - B Shield Patterns (4, Wk 3); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19)

• 4.4PE

  Play a variety of classroom instruments, alone and with others while demonstrating various proper techniques.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Skips (2, Wk 7); Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9); Rhythm (2, Wk 22)

• 4.5PE

  Demonstrate partner songs and descants.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9); Chord Progressions Part I (5, Wk 18); Harmonizing Part III (3, Wk 31)

• 4.6PE

  Maintain independent, simple, four- and eight-beat rhythmic stinato against at least two separate parts.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 34); Guava Review (2, Wk 12); Beet & Avocado (PK, Wk 26); Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 10)

Responding 8

• 4.1RE

  Discuss the lives and times of composers from various historical periods and cultures.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Resolutions (3, Wk 28); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21)

• 4.2RE

  Classify instruments by their families.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3); Beet & Shh (K, Wk 6)

• 4.3RE

  Compare and contrast elements of music using developmentally appropriate vocabulary.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Inverse Intervals (3, Wk 26); Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); C Major & G Major (K, Wk 26)

• 4.4RE

  Compare interpretations of the same piece of music as it occurs in movement, dance, drama, or visual art.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Gently Sleep Performance (4, Wk 35); Chord Progressions Part III (5, Wk 20); Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21)

• 4.5RE

  Explain personal preferences for musical selections using music vocabulary.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); Hot Cross Buns (PK, Wk 19); Mi Sol Stars (PK, Wk 20); Lucy Locket (PK, Wk 22)

• 4.6RE

  Follow and respond to grade-appropriate cues of a conductor.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 35); Wheels on the Bus (K, Wk 35); Three Cs Part II (5, Wk 12); Sweet Beets (PK, Wk 33)

• 4.7RE

  Explore music created by Ohio artists and determine how their works were influenced by their Ohio roots.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds, Thirds and Fourths Review (3, Wk 16); Steps (2, Wk 5); F Major Chord (1, Wk 24); Ode to Joy Performance (1, Wk 33)

• 4.8RE

  Identify and respond to simple music forms (verse/refrain, rondo).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1); Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22)

Connecting 3

• 4.1CO

  Discuss the connection between emotion and music in selected musical works using elements of music.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2); Seconds, Thirds and Fourths Review (3, Wk 16)

• 4.2CO

  Attend and reflect on music performances demonstrating appropriate audience behavior for the context and style of music performed.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9); Steps (2, Wk 6); Trading 4s in C Major (2, Wk 24)

• 4.3CO

  Discuss how the elements and subject matter of music connect with other subject areas.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Rhythm Reivew Part I (3, Wk 3); Rhythm Reivew Part II (3, Wk 4)