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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
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| Expression | |||
| use and identify grade-appropriate elements of musical expression
5-8 M-L4.1 |
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| Appendix B: Expression | |||
| Timbre | |||
| 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 |
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| identify and use various vocal and/or instrumental timbres from diverse Canadian and world cultures (e.g., traditional folk, popular, choral and instrumental repertoire)
7-8 M-L4.3 |
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| demonstrate understanding of appropriate use of the changing male and female voices in music
5-8 M-L4.4 |
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| Appendix C: Timbre | |||
| Form | |||
| use, identify, and describe grade-appropriate musical forms
1-6 M-L4.5 |
use, identify, and describe a variety of musical forms (e.g., march, suite, programmatic music, 12-bar blues, symphonic forms, operetta, opera) through listening and performance, as appropriate
7-8 M-L4.5 |
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| Appendix D: Form | |||
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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 |