4th Grade
4TH GRADE: Developing Musical Proficiency
IN Standards for 4th Grade Music
At this point, most of the students have a good comprehension of meters, pentatonic intervals, and elementary rhythms. This is excellent preparation for the rhythmic, melodic, and analytic challenges they will meet in 4th grade. Our 5 goals include:
- To introduce the double division of the beat through sixteenth notes, then the eighth rest, dotted rhythms and syncopation.
- To discover and explore the arrangement of whole and half steps through singing and playing melodies in the keys of C, F, and G.
- To continue the exploration of texture with singing and playing in three- and four-part canon, then with two-chord accompaniments, I and V.
- To foster improvisation, creating instrumental introductions, codas, and contrasting sections for song material.
- To develop listening skills with music in canon (i.e. Purcell’s Canon).
Vocabulary
- Allegro - Fast
- Simple Meter - 4/4, 3/4, 2/4
- Compound Meter - 6/8, 9/8, 12/8
- Duration - length of notes
- Eighth Notes - 1/2 beat in simple meter
- Sixteenth Notes - 1/4 beat in simple meter
- 1st, 2nd Ending
- D.S. al Coda - Return to the "sign", then perform to the Coda
- Major / Minor
- Mezzo Piano - Medium quiet
- Mezzo Forte - Medium loud
- Woodwind
- Harmony
- Chord - 2 or more pitches at the same time
- Expression
- Legato - Smooth and connected
- Staccato - Short and detached