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

Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8
Rhythm
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
perform rhythmic patterns accurately, based on combinations of known durations

5-8 M-L3.2
Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony
Melody
describe and perform increasingly complex melodies

5-8 M-L3.3
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
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
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
Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony
Texture and Harmony
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
Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony
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Suggested Scope and Sequence of Rhythm, Melody, Harmony Concepts for 3-6
  Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6
Beat, Rhythm and Meter Dotted half note Sixteenth notes Triplet Syncopation (for e.g., eighth-quarter-eighth pattern) Eighth rest Sixteenth and eighth note combinations Dotted quarter-eighth pattern Dotted eighth-sixteenth pattern
3/4 meter Quarter note Two eighth notes Quarter rest 6/8 meter Irregular meter (5/4, 7/8, 5/8)
Melody and Pitch Do1, la, so, mi, re, do, la1, so1 Fa and ti
La pentatonic Tonal centre (e.g., home tone C, F, G, D…) Major diatonic (ionian mode) Minor diatonic (aeolian mode) Key signatures (C major, A minor) Major and minor diatonic Keys of C, F, G, D major, A and D minor Variety of modes, scales (for e.g. blues scale, dorian, mixolydian, phrygian, whole tone, chromatic etc….)
Harmony and Texture Unison I – V, i – v Major and minor chords I – IV – V Explore diverse harmonic progressions (for e.g. i – ii, I – iii, I – vi, I – vii; 12 bar blues)
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