elementary Block:
Music
Learners participate in structured, creative opportunities with practice, collaboration, and performance. They develop vocal and instrumental proficiency and write and perform their own songs. Learners respond to music through physical movement and by developing musical literacy. They connect music to emotion and explicitly identify elements that contribute to feelings. Learners discuss the intention of composers, musical elements, cultural practices, the purpose of music in their lives, and various musical heritages.
CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS
EXPERIMENTATION
CREATE
- Develop skill in composing music
- Experiment with a variety of genres and technologies
- Develop aural skills to support performance and composition
- Develop proficiency in performance
CONNECT
- Connect the ways music is important to communication, history and understanding each other
COMMUNICATE
- Determine artistic intent
- Justify choices in music-making
Strand: CREATE
Big Idea: COMPOSITION
Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
Achievement Indicators:
- Express thoughts, experiences, and/or feelings by composing and singing/performing (alone and with others) using standard and adapted notation
- Improvise, compose, and perform (alone and with others) short melodies and rhythms using voice and/or instrument(s)
Big Idea: AURAL LITERACY
Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of music to develop aural literacy using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
Achievement Indicators:
- Distinguish between step, skip and leap
- Identify ABA form
- Identify and classify sound production of common classroom instruments
Big Idea: APPLICATION AND PERFORMANCE
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive products for a range of audiences and purposes.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS
Achievement Indicators:
- Perform rhythm accurately adding ti tica, tica ti, whole note, whole rest, and dotted half note
- Sing and/or play accurately a variety of articulation
- Sing on pitch (alone and with others) accurately adding high do, low la, and low so using call and response form
- Sing and/or play ostinato accompaniment
- Sing/play (alone and with others) with emphasis on reading notation, range, and complex textures including round, canon, ostinato, and harmony
Strand: CONNECT
Big Idea: ART AND CULTURE
Skill Descriptor: Apply the role of music in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Discuss places in the community to learn about and experience music from a variety of cultures
- Describe connections between the cultures and music of Atlantic Canada, including Black, Acadian and Wabanaki histories of New Brunswick
- Identify musical contributions of cultural groups in their own community
- Describe the relationship between music and local events and issues
- List music-making opportunities in their community
Big Idea: ART FORM RELATIONSHIPS
Skill Descriptor: Discuss the relationship between music and other art forms.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Interpret songs and instrumental pieces combining music and movement
- Participate in solo and group music-making and movement activities in school and community
Strand: COMMUNICATE
Big Idea: REFLECT AND RESPOND
Skill Descriptor: Reflect on and respond to artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE
Achievement Indicators:
- Describe their own and others’ music-making with emphasis on the elements of music
- Share ideas and feelings with others during music-making
- Explain decisions about own music-making using terminology from the elements of music
- Respond to music with emphasis on the elements of music
- Demonstrate respect for the responses of others to music
Strand: CREATE
Big Idea: COMPOSITION
Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
Achievement Indicators:
- Express thoughts, experiences, and/or feelings by composing and singing/performing (alone and with others)
- Improvise, compose, notate, and perform musical examples using tie and fermata
- Compose and perform question and answer phrases
- Improvise and notate simple rhythmic and melodic elaborations using standard notation and non-standard notation
Big Idea: AURAL LITERACY
Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of music to develop aural literacy using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
Achievement Indicators:
- Sight-read stepwise melodies from standard notation
- Identify rondo form and theme and variation form
- Identify an octave
Big Idea: APPLICATION AND PERFORMANCE
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive products for a range of audiences and purposes.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS
Achievement Indicators:
- Create and perform rhythms accurately using ti and eighth rest
- Sing on pitch (alone and with others) accurately adding high ti, fa, and low ti using call and response
- Sing/play (alone and with others) with emphasis on complex textures including two-part forms and three-part forms
Strand: CONNECT
Big Idea: ART AND CULTURE
Skill Descriptor: Discuss the role of music in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Discuss places in the community to learn about and experience music from a variety of cultures
- Describe connections between the cultures and music of Atlantic Canada, including Black, Acadian and Wabanaki histories of New Brunswick
- Discuss musical contributions of cultural groups in their own community
- Discuss musicians in their community
- Discuss music-making opportunities in their community
Big Idea: ART FORM RELATIONSHIPS
Skill Descriptor: Discuss the relationship between music and other art forms.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Investigate the relationship between work/working environment and music, past and present
- Participate in solo and group music-making and movement activities in school and community
Strand: COMMUNICATE
Big Idea: REFLECT AND RESPOND
Skill Descriptor: Reflect on and respond to artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE
Achievement Indicators:
- Describe their own and others’ music-making with emphasis on the elements of music
- Share ideas and feelings with others during music-making
- Make and justify decisions about own music-making using terminology from the elements of music
- Respond to music with emphasis on the elements of music
- Identify problems and possible solutions in the music-making process
- Evaluate performance of classroom repertoire using co-constructed criteria
- Demonstrate respect for the responses of others to music
Strand: CREATE
Big Idea: COMPOSITION
Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of music to compose music using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
Achievement Indicators:
- Express thoughts, experiences, and/or feelings by singing, composing, and singing/performing (alone and with others)
- Improvise, compose, notate, and perform (alone and with others) short musical works with emphasis on motif and sequence
- Improvise, compose, notate, and present music that explores topics and issues of personal interest
Big Idea: AURAL LITERACY
Skill Descriptor: Apply the elements of music to develop aural literacy using a variety of sound sources and repertoire.
Achievement Indicators:
- Identify bridge and coda
- Sight-read stepwise melodies from standard notation
Big Idea: APPLICATION AND PERFORMANCE
Skill Descriptor: Create and present expressive products for a range of audiences and purposes.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS
Achievement Indicators:
- Create and perform rhythms accurately using dotted quarter note – eighth note, and eighth note–quarter note-eighth note
- Sing or play using ABA form
- Perform accurately in 6/8 metre
- Demonstrate syncopation with body percussion and/or instruments
- Sing or play in tune, alone and with others
- Perform a single part accurately within a two-part texture
Strand: CONNECT
Big Idea: ART AND CULTURE
Skill Descriptor: Discuss the role of music in creating, expressing, recording, and reflecting culture and human experiences.
Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Discuss places in the community to learn about and experience music from a variety of cultures
- Describe connections between the cultures and music of Atlantic Canada, including Black, Acadian and Wabanaki histories of New Brunswick
- Describe musical contributions of cultural groups in their own community
- Research musicians in their community
- Describe personal opportunities for music-making in their community
Big Idea: ART FORM RELATIONSHIPS
Skill Descriptor: Discuss the relationship between music and other art forms.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SGC
Achievement Indicators:
- Identify similarities and differences between music and other art forms
- Participate in solo and group music-making and movement activities in school and community
Strand: COMMUNICATE
Big Idea: REFLECT AND RESPOND
Skill Descriptor: Reflect on and respond to artistic intent in their own and others’ expressive works.
Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, ICE
Achievement Indicators:
- Discuss their own and others music-making with emphasis on the elements of music
- Describe various influences on composers and their works and the reasons for their musical decisions
- Share ideas and feelings with others during music-making
- Make and justify decisions about own music-making using terminology from the elements of music
- Compare music of various genres referencing elements of music
- Compare interpretations of musical works using appropriate terminology
- Identify problems and possible solutions in the music-making process
- Self-evaluate ability to maintain a melody and/or a harmony
- Demonstrate respect for the responses of others to music