Manitoba Education
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
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| perform and demonstrate understanding of a variety of metric concepts (e.g., simple, compound, duple, triple, quadruple, irregular, and mixed metres)
5-8 M-L3.1 |
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| perform rhythmic patterns accurately, based on combinations of known durations
5-8 M-L3.2 |
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| Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony | ||||
| Melody | ||||
| describe and perform increasingly complex melodies
5-8 M-L3.3 |
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| demonstrate understanding of melodic design (e.g., home tone, step-wise motion, skips and leaps, octaves, melodic contour) as appropriate to classroom repertoire
5-8 M-L3.3 |
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| demonstrate understanding that melodies are created from a particular set of tones (modes)
3-8 M-L3.5 |
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| demonstrate understanding that melodic relationships can be transposed to different tonal centres
3-8 M-L3.6 |
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| distinguish between major and minor tonalities
5-6 M-L3.7 |
demonstrate understanding of distinguishing characteristics of a variety of scales and modes (e.g., diatonic major and minor, chromatic, whole-tone, blues)
7-8 M-L3.7 |
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| Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony | ||||
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Texture and Harmony
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| identify and demonstrate various ways of layering sounds to create texture and harmony (e.g., homophonic and polyphonic music, two-, three-, and four-part harmony, various harmonic progressions, non-pitched music)
5-8 M-L3.8 |
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| Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony | ||||
