Content Standard

Listening to, analyzing, and describing music

Achievement Standard

• Students identify simple music forms when presented aurally
• Students demonstrate perceptual skills by moving, by answering questions about, and by describing aural examples of music of various styles representing diverse cultures
• Students use appropriate terminology in explaining music, music notation, music instruments and voices, and music performances
• Students identify the sounds of a variety of instruments, including many orchestra and band instruments, and instruments from various cultures, as well as children's voices and male and female adult voices
• Students respond through purposeful movement (e.g., swaying, skipping, dramatic play) to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music events (e.g., meter changes, dynamic changes, same/different sections) while listening to music

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Resources that connect to this Standard:

• Ballet and Classical Music
• Harriet Tubman: Dancing on the Freedom Trail
• America, A Home for Every Culture
• Jazz Music, Dance, and Poetry
• Chinese Instruments
• Percussion Instruments and Pitch
• Brass Instruments and Pitch
• Grades K-4 National Arts Content and Achievement Standards
• String Instruments and Pitch
• Musical Harlem
• Woodwind Instruments and Pitch
• Music Content and Achievement Standards: K-12
• Harriet Tubman: Secret Messages Shared through Song
• Grades K-4 Full-Text Arts Standards