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State Music Standards

  • Understands and uses dynamic symbols
  • Identifies families of instruments by sight and sound
  • Identifies and writes notes in the treble clef
  • Identifies simple musical forms (i.e.; introduction, interlude, coda, rondo)
  • Creates a simple melody
  • Sings and matches pitch throughout a major diatonic scale
  • Creates an improvisational interlude
  • Demonstrates proper technique on at least one pitched instrument
  • Describes the attributes of artworks used by specific artists or cultures
  • Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a creative process
  • Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process
  • Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a responding process
  • Identifies how ideas and feelings are expressed through the arts
  • Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose (e.g. share traditions, ceremonies)
  • Recognizes that aesthetic choices are influenced by culture
  • Demonstrated skills and processes common amoung arts disciplines (i.e.; creating, practicing, performing, exhibiting, collaborating)
  • Identifies steps of processes common to the arts and other content areas (i.e. creative writing and scientific processes)
  • Identifies and analyzes how the arts impact consumer choices
  • Identifies general attributes ofartworks from a specific culture
  • Practices/rehearses to refine arts skills

Music in Fourth Grade

Classroom Activities

Fourth Grade Musical Play