music language & performance skills

Music Language and Performance Skills (M-L4) »
Students demonstrate understanding of expression, timbre, and form 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
Expression
explore and experiment with grade-appropriate elements of musical expression

K M-L4.1

 use and identify grade-appropriate elements of musical expression

1-4 M-L4.1
Appendix B: Expression
Timbre
demonstrate awareness of sounds in the natural world and explore and experiment with a variety of timbres in voice and instruments

K M-L4.2

 describe characteristics of a wide variety of sounds
(include: sounds from the natural world and musical instruments)

1-2 M-L4.2

 identify, describe, and classify a wide variety of sounds from the natural and constructed environment (e.g., instruments used by various cultures in Manitoba and countries around the world, orchestral instruments, electronic instruments and sound sources)

3-8 M-L4.2
Appendix C: Timbre
Form
recognize, reproduce, and create musical patterns (e.g., same, different, repeated)

K M-L4.5

 use, identify, and describe grade-appropriate musical forms

1-6 M-L4.5
Appendix D: Form

 

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Key Concepts: Timbre
 
Capacity of objects to produce sounds
Varied timbres of the voice (for e.g. speaking singing, shouting)
Varied timbres of the body (for e.g. clap, patsch, snap, stomp)
Individual vocal timbres ( for e.g. classmates, teacher, men, women)
Timbres of conventional classroom sound sources
Combined timbres
Classification of sound production (for e.g. struck, plucked, blown, rubbed, shaken)
Effects on timbre of construction material (for e.g. wood, glass, metal)
Vocabulary related to timbre (for e.g. rough, metallic, reedy)
Acoustic vs. electronic
Classification of instruments in families
Sound recording technologies

Adapted from Music Primary – 6 Curriculum, Nova Scotia Department of Education, English Program Services, 2006.
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