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: Form
K-2 3-6
Same/different
Phrase
Long and short phrases
AB
ABA
Rondo form (ABACA …)
Introduction
Interlude
Coda
Canon
Four bar phrase
First and second endings
Da Capo
Del Segno
Variety of extended forms (for e.g. 12 bar blues, verse-chorus-bridge, call and response, chaconne, theme and variations, fugue, through composed…)
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