Washington DC Grade 5 Music Standards

The Grade 5 standards

Listen to, analyze, and evaluate music 6

• 5.1.E1

  Devise and apply specific criteria evaluating performances and compositions.

• 5.1.E2

  Identify and analyze difference tempo and dynamics in contrasting music selections.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23)

• 5.1.L1

  Define the special properties of musical sounds (pitch, duration, volume and timbre).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Bonus Tip (5, Wk 23); Sound vs Noise/Bell or Boomwhacker? (K, Wk 23); Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2)

• 5.1.L2

  Analyze how musical sounds are in various genres and culture.

• 5.1.L3

  Identify vocal and instrumental ensembles from a variety of genres and cultures (e.g., classical, jazz, blues, gamelan, mariachi, cambia, salsa, mambo, reggae).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Hello Am Chord Part III (5, Wk 15); Aloha Kakahiaka Performance (5, Wk 35)

• 5.1.L4

  Demonstrate perceptual skills listening to and comparing and contrasting music of various styles and cultures.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Chord Theory Part III (5, Wk 32); Chord Progressions Part III (5, Wk 20); Chord Progressions Part IV (5, Wk 21); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)

Sing and perform on instruments alone and with others 8

• 5.2.P1

  Perform melodies I accompaniments from a varied repertoire of music from diverse cultures, including rounds, descants, ostinatos, and two-part harmony, by oneself and with others, on classroom instruments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Sixths Part II (3, Wk 25); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7)

• 5.2.P2

  Use appropriate embouchure breath control, bowing or drumstick grip to produce tones on instruments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14); Recorder Page 2 - High D Shield Patterns (4, Wk 2); Recorder Page 5 - B A G Shield Patterns (4, Wk 5); Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8)

• 5.2.P3

  Perform independent instrumental parts while other students sing or play contrasting parts.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Types of Ukuleles (5, Wk 2); When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Song Form Review (2, Wk 20); Finding notes on the Treble Clef (1, Wk 3)

• 5.2.P4

  Accompany singing with rhythm and/or melody instruments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Do, Re, Mi (K, Wk 9); Hand Signs (K, Wk 28); C & D (K, Wk 31); C & G (K, Wk 33)

• 5.2.P5

  Maintain instruments, voice, performance and practice areas carefully and responsibly.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Bells (K, Wk 4); Hello C (K, Wk 5); Short & Long with D (K, Wk 7); Hi High C (K, Wk 11)

• 5.2.S1

  Sing from memory a varied repertoire of songs representing diverse genres, styles and cultures, including rounds/canons, descants, and songs with ostinatos and songs in two-part harmony, alone and with others.

  Related Prodigies PK-5 lessons: Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Chord Progressions Part III (5, Wk 20); Hello C Chord Part I (5, Wk 8); G Major Chord (1, Wk 22)

• 5.2.S2

  Sing with accurate pitch, rhythm, diction, and posture, maintaining a steady tempo.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Speed Exercise (5, Wk 24); Adagio, Andante and Moderato (K, Wk 22); C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26); C & D (K, Wk 31)

• 5.2.S3

  Sing in groups, blending vocal "chest timbres, dynamic levels, and respond to the cues of the conductor.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Color Coding Your Ukulele (5, Wk 7); 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)

Improvise, arrange, and compose music 4

• 5.3.1

  Improvise, compose, and arrange 3, simple melodies on a given scale (e.g., pentatonic).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holding your Ukulele (5, Wk 5); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1)

• 5.3.2

  Improvise, compose, and arrange basic rhythmic, melodic and harmonic patterns on classroom instruments and available technology.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4); Singing (2, Wk 21); Resolutions (3, Wk 28)

• 5.3.3

  Improvise, compose, and arrange and music to accompany readings and dramatizations.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9); Left C, Right c (K, Wk 12); Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2); C and Shh (PK, Wk 3)

• 5.3.4

  Improvise and compose short songs and/or instrumental pieces in duple and triple meter using the following musical devises: imitation and repetition.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds - Part III (3, Wk 10); Compound Meter Part II (3, Wk 20); Pizza Rhythms (2, Wk 9); Compound Meter Part I (3, Wk 19)

Read and notate music 4

• 5.4.1

  Read (using rhythmic solfege) rhythmic notation, including sixteenth notes, dotted notes, and syncopation (e.g., eighth/quarter/eighth note and eighth- rest/quarter/eighth note).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Treble Clef Reivew (3, Wk 2); Rhythm Review (2, Wk 11); Compound Meter Part IV (3, Wk 22); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4)

• 5.4.2

  Read (sing) melodic notation in treble clef in major keys and minor keys, using solfege.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Four Finger Fretting Exercise (5, Wk 26); Recorder Squire 5 - Merrily We Roll Along (4, Wk 11); Short & Long Stars (PK, Wk 2)

• 5.4.3

  Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in song.

• 5.4.4

  Recognize and construct basic chords and chord patterns (e.g., I, V, and V7).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Seconds and Thirds Review (3, Wk 13); Seconds, Thirds and Fourths Review (3, Wk 16); Fifths Part II (3, Wk 18); Sixths Part II (3, Wk 25)

Connect music to other art forms and subject areas 4

• 5.5.H1

  Describe in writing the roles musicians in each of the four periods of music history (e.g., Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary) and include a composer and composition representative of each their period.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Sevenths & Octaves (3, Wk 27); Hi High C (K, Wk 11); Steps (2, Wk 6); Mi, Sol, La (1, Wk 10)

• 5.5.H2

  Listen to and identify, by genre style, examples of music from various historical periods and world cultures.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C Chord Part III (5, Wk 10); Recorder History - From Medieval to Modern (4, Wk 6); Recorder Lord/Lady 4 - Jingle Bells (4, Wk 21)

• 5.5.S1

  Identify the use of similar elements music and other art forms (e.g., form, pattern, rhythm).

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Listen to My Heartbeat (1, Wk 1); Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3); Short & Long with D (K, Wk 7); Beet & Cherry (K, Wk 8)

• 5.5.S2

  Produce sound fundamentals classroom instruments.

  Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C (PK, Wk 1); Best Friends, C and G (PK, Wk 4); Do Mi Sol Slide (PK, Wk 5)