music language & performance skills

Music Language and Performance Skills (M-L3) »  
Students demonstrate awareness and understanding of rhythm, melody, texture, and harmony in a variety of musical contexts.

 

Students who have achieved expectations for this grade are able to

Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4
Rhythm
respond to and, with guidance, perform a steady beat and grade-appropriate rhythmic patterns in a variety of metres

K M-L3.1

 recognize, identify, and perform with others a steady beat and a variety of grade-appropriate rhythmic and accent patterns in a variety of metres

1 M-L3.1

 perform a steady beat and a variety of grade-appropriate rhythmic and accent patterns with increasing independence, and demonstrate awareness of metre

2 M-L3.1

 perform and respond to a steady beat and grade-appropriate rhythmic patterns independently, and identify and respond to simple, duple, and triple metres

3 M-L3.1

 perform and demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex rhythmic and metric concepts (e.g., syncopation, compound metres)

4 M-L1.1
Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony
Melody
respond to, describe, and reproduce simple changes in pitch and melodic direction

K M-L3.3

 describe and reproduce changes in pitch, melodic contour, and simple melodies

1-2 M-L3.3

 describe and reproduce increasingly complex melodies

3-4 M-L3.3
  demonstrate understanding of melodic design (e.g., home tone, step-wise motion, melodic contour)

2-4 M-L3.4
  demonstrate understanding that melodies are created from a particular set of tones (modes)

3-8 M-L3.5
  demonstrate understanding that melodic relationships can be transposed to different tonal centres

3-8 M-L3.6
  identify the difference between major and minor modes

3-4 M-L3.7
Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony
Texture and Harmony
differentiate between individual and combined sounds (one instrument versus two or more instruments)

K M-L3.8

 demonstrate understanding that the layering of sounds creates texture and/or harmony

1-4 M-L3.8
demonstrate and identify various ways of creating texture and harmony in music

1-4 M-L3.9
  create simple rhythmic and harmonic texture in music

1 M-L3.10

 use two or more layers of sound to create simple texture and harmony, demonstrating understanding of complementary rhythms

2 M-L3.10

 use several layers of sound and increasingly complex patterns to create texture and harmony

3 M-L3.10

 identify and use chord changes in two-chord songs

4 M-L3.10
Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony

 

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Key Concepts: Rhythm, Melody, Harmony for General Music Focus, Kindergarten to Grade 2
  Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2
Beat, Rhythm and Meter Steady beat Sound vs. silence Difference between beat and rhythm  
Long and short sounds Quarter note Two eighth notes Quarter rest Half note, whole note, half rest, whole rest, tie
Performance in a variety of meter (6/8, 4/4, 2/4, 3/4) Strong and weak beats (metric accents) 2/4 meter Bar lines 4/4 meter
Melody and Pitch Speaking vs. singing voice High and low So-mi So-mi-la Do1, la, so, mi, re,
Contours: ascending and descending Contours: skip, step, repeated tones Do pentatonic
Harmony and Texture Unison Harmony of a 5th (for e.g. solid bordun) Ostinato (vocal and instrumental) Harmony vs. unison Two-part canon Two parts (speech, singing, instruments)
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