FOURTH GRADE
General Music Outcomes and Performance Indicators
Wappingers Central School District
ABILITIES OUTCOMES (Apply the following to each Content Outcome)
1. APPLY ABILITIES TO MUSIC
A. HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS Use thinking skills in music:
classify, decide, compare, analyze, predict, generalize
B. GOAL SETTING & ATTAINMENT: Set goals and reach them by
following a plan: brainstorm, dream, plan, organize, don’t give up
C. COMMUNICATIONS: Talk and write about music using music
vocabulary
D. QUALITY PROCESS: Use the quality process in creating and
performing music (plan, draft, analyze, revise, evaluate)
2. APPLY MUSIC SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
A. Be able to enjoy music through listening and performing
B. Understand the creative process and be able to create and
improvise music
C. Be able to evaluate and give your opinion about music
D. Be able to respond to music in an emotional and physical
manner
E. Be able to use available technology to create and perform
music
F. Understand the interrelationship between music and history
and music and the other disciplines
G. Understand music as an expression of many cultures
H. Be able to create a quality, expressive performance
I. Be able to use instruments, equipment, and materials in a
respectful and appropriate manner
J. Know about music careers
UNIVERSAL OUTCOME:
BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE PROPER PERFORMANCE AND AUDIENCE ETIQUETTE
A. Attend all performances on time
B. Dress appropriately
C. Stay for the entire concert
D. Be attentive, still, and quiet as a performer and audience
member
E. Enter or leave the audience only between groups
F. Show appreciative and respectful attention to the performance
of others
G. Adhere to the individual auditorium rules
H. Evaluate concert performances, (yours and others), and
develop and use strategies to improve
CONTENT OUTCOMES
Corresponding NYS Standards
1. SINGING: BE ABLE TO SING MUSICALLY
1
A. Be able to sing tunefully alone and with others
B. Be able to breathe musically
C. Be able to blend your voice with others
2. RHYTHM: UNDERSTAND METER
1 & 2
A. Be able to hear and write two measures of rhythm using
familiar notes, rests, and meter
B. Be able to read, write, count and perform quarter note,
quarter rest, paired eighth notes, half note, half rest,
dotted half note, whole note and whole rest using the
traditional counting system
C. Know duple, triple and quadruple meter; measure and bar line
D. Be able to improvise a two-measure rhythm in duple and triple
meter
3. MELODY: BE ABLE TO PERFORM A MELODY FROM NOTES ON THE TREBLE STAFF
1 & 2
A. Be able to read, sing and play notated melodies that move by
step, skip or stay the same
B. Be able to read and sing notated patterns using low sol, do,
mi, sol, la, high do, and do, re, mi
C. Be able to hear and write note heads for melodic patterns
using do, re, mi
D. Understand the letter name system for the treble staff
4. HARMONY: BE ABLE TO MAKE HARMONY
1
A. Be able to sing a three-part round or canon
B. Be able to sing partner songs
C. Be able to sing/play, maintaining one of several simultaneous
ostinati (repeated patterns)
D. Be able to hear and sing tonic and dominant as the root bass
line to familiar melodies
5. FORM: KNOW MUSICAL TERMS AND SIGNS RELATED TO FORM
3
A. Be able to follow music using D.S., D.C., and repeat signs,
and first and second ending
B. Be able to hear and identify an introduction, bridge,
interlude and coda
6. TONE COLOR: UNDERSTAND TIMBRES OF INSTRUMENTS
3
A. Understand the production of sound for each instrument family
B. Be able to visually identify sight four instruments from each
family
7. INSTRUMENTS: BE ABLE TO PLAY BEGINNING RECORDER
2
A. Be able to hold the recorder correctly
B. Be able to tongue notes on the recorder
C. Be able to read and play melodies on the recorder using B, A,
G
D. Be able to play a root bass line harmony using G and low D
8. CULTURE/STYLE: KNOW AND PARTICIPATE IN VARIETY OF WORLD MUSIC
4
A. Know examples of traditional music and songs related to the
grade level social studies curriculum (New York State)
B. Know about one major composer, including basic facts and
musical examples
C. Know the story, characters, composer and musical excerpts from
one ballet
FIFTH GRADE
General Music Outcomes and Performance Indicators
Wappingers Central School District
ABILITIES OUTCOMES (see FOURTH GRADE)
UNIVERSAL OUTCOME:
BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE PROPER PERFORMANCE AND AUDIENCE ETIQUETTE
(see Fourth grade)
CONTENT OUTCOMES
Corresponding NYS Standards
1. SINGING: BE ABLE TO SING MUSICALLY
1
A. Be able to determine a musical place to breathe
B. Be able to blend your head (high) voice and chest (low) voice
when appropriate
2. RHYTHM: BE ABLE TO HEAR, READ, WRITE AND PERFORM RHYTHM PATTERNS
1 & 2
A. Know four barred sixteenth notes
B. Be able to read, write, count and perform rhythms using known
notes, rests and meter
C. Be able to read, write and perform a rhythm percussion score
3. MELODY: BE ABLE TO HEAR, READ, WRITE, AND PERFORM MELODIES
1 & 2
A. Be able to read, write and perform simple melodies from
notation
B. Be able to read and sing tonic, dominant, and subdominant
patterns
C. Be able to hear and write one-measure melodies
4. HARMONY: BE ABLE TO HEAR, UNDERSTAND AND MAKE HARMONY
1
A. Be able to sing and follow two-part music
B. Be able to sing a descant
C. Be able to sing tonic (I), dominant (V), and subdominant (IV) as the
root bass line to familiar melodies
D. Know the difference between melody and harmony
5. FORM: UNDERSTAND RONDO FORM
3
A. Be able to hear more than one contrasting section in rondo
form
B. Be able to use letters to label musical sections in rondo form
C. Know rondo form in listening, performing and creating
6. TONE COLOR: BE ABLE TO HEAR AND UNDERSTAND VOCAL TIMBRES
3
A. Know the voice classifications: S A T B
B. Know that the voice is a developing instrument in each person
C. Know and be able to differentiate four types of vocal
ensembles by hearing: e.g. Men, women, children, mixed, barber shop
D. Know the basic concepts of sound production in the human voice
7. INSTRUMENTS: BE ABLE TO PLAY TRADITIONAL LATIN PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
1, 2, 4
A. Be able to maintain an ostinato (repeated pattern) on the
claves
B. Be able to maintain an ostinato (repeated pattern) on maracas
with alternating hands *
C. Be able to maintain an ostinato (repeated pattern) on
bongos/conga using alternating hand
D. Be able to scrape guiro back and forth
E. Be able to maintain the traditional agogo rhythm as an
ostinato (repeated pattern)
8. CULTURE/STYLE: KNOW AND PARTICIPATE IN A VARIETY OF WORLD MUSIC
4
A. Know examples of Latin music, songs, and traditional
instruments including where, how and by whom
they are traditionally performed
B. Know about one major composer, including basic facts and
musical examples
C. Know the story, characters, composer and musical excerpts
from one opera/operetta
D. Be able to sing two songs in languages other than English
SIXTH GRADE
General Music Outcomes and Performance Indicators
Wappingers Central School District
ABILITIES OUTCOMES (See Fourth Grade)
UNIVERSAL OUTCOME:
BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE PROPER PERFORMANCE AND AUDIENCE ETIQUETTE (see
Fourth Grade)
CONTENT OUTCOMES
Corresponding NYS Standards
1. SINGING: KNOW ABOUT YOUR OWN VOICE AND THE VOICES OF OTHERS
3
A. Understand the voice as a developing instrument
B. Understand the use of the head voice
C. Understand personal vocal range
2. RHYTHM: BE ABLE TO READ, PERFORM, AND UNDERSTAND EQUAL SUBDIVISIONS
OF THE BEAT 1
A. Understand the relationship between notes and rest values
B. Be able to read and perform combinations of all previously
learned rhythmic patterns on
percussion instruments, alone and with others
C. Know dotted quarter, three eighths and quarter eighth
combinations in 6/8 meter
3. MELODY: BE ABLE TO READ AND PERFORM MELODIES
1 & 2
A. Be able to read and sing melodic patterns in minor tonality
B. Be able to read and play five note melodies on mallet
percussion
C. Be able to hear and write two-measure melodies
D. Be able to improvise a melody using I and V chord patterns
4. HARMONY: BE ABLE TO HEAR AND PLAY CHORDAL HARMONY
1 & 2
A. Be able to hear chord changes using tonic (I) and dominant (V) chords
B. Be able to accompany familiar songs using the tonic (I) and dominant
(V) chords
C. Be able to sing a root bass line using tonic (I), dominant (V), and
subdominant (IV)
5. FORM: UNDERSTAND THEME AND VARIATION
3
A. Be able to identify the theme
B. Know how a theme can be varied
6. TONE COLOR: KNOW AND DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN DIFFERENT PERFORMING
ENSEMBLES 3
A. Know the orchestra and be able to identify and hear its
member instruments
B. Know the concert band and be able to identify and hear its
member instruments
C. Be able to differentiate between band and orchestra
D. Know two different chamber ensembles and be able to identify
and hear its member instruments
7. INSTRUMENTS: BE ABLE TO PLAY CONGA
2
A. Be able to play conga using bass tone, open tone, alternating
hands
B. Be able to improvise an ostinato on the conga using bass tone and
open tone
C. Be able to maintain an ostinato in 6/8 meter
8. CULTURE/STYLE: KNOW AND PARTICIPATE IN A VARIETY OF WORLD MUSIC
4
A. Know the story, characters, composer and musical excerpts
from two American musicals
B. Know about one major composer, including basic facts and
musical examples