Subject: General Music/

THIRD GRADE
First Marking Period
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Sing and hear soft/loud

Use classroom instruments
Listen to orchestral instruments
Identify different tempos
Identify long/short
Identify strong beat, beat vs. melodic rhythm
Sing, hear, play, identify 2/4/ meter
Use simple rhythms in 2/4 and 4/4
Identify high/low
Identify upward/downward/repeated tones
Identify relative positions of DO RE MI SO LA
Sing and hear melody with chordal and simple pattern/accompaniment
Identify same/different sections
Use interludes
Identify stylistic elements in American music
Identify and use piano/forte
Identify meaning of tone color
Identify techniques for varying tone color of voices and instruments for expressive
purposes
Identify tempo of a song
Identify tempo changes within a composition
Relate simple locomotor and axial movements to simple notation in 2/4
Improvise with DO RE MI SO LA
Play one-and two-chord autoharp accompaniment
Sing, hear melody with chordal and simple accompaniment patterns
Use introductions, interludes, codas
Identify stylistic elements in listening selections

Second Marking Period

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Practice identifying and using piano and forte

Identify folk stringed instruments
Identify G A B on staff
Use voices and instruments for expressive purposes
Identify descriptive use of orchestral instruments
Identify qualities of good singing
Use, move to simple notation in 2/4 and 4/4
Identify stylistic elements of music in holidays and winter

Third Marking Period

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Identify orchestral stringed instruments

Identify tone color and articulation of violin
Use tempo as an expressive tool
Identify high DO, low LA, low SO
Listen to ballad, spiritual, call and response
Identify pianissimo and fortissimo
Identify harpsichord
Identify banjo, violin, piano, recorder, percussion
Identify and use fermata
Identify notation for F
Hear and sing songs from the United States, Black American music, and Colonial Era

Fourth Marking Period

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Identify ukulele and other folk instruments

Identify orchestral stringed instruments
Identify tempo ( presto )
Identify whole note and whole rest
Compose using known notation
Identify arrangement of keyboard
Echo simple tunes
Play whole and half steps
Sing a canon
Identify phrases
Improvise question and answer phrases
Identify aaba phrase order
Identify stringed instruments from many cultures
Identify French horn
Identify effect of sharp and flat
Sing rounds
Identify unaccompanied melody, melody with chordal accompaniment, and ostinato
accompaniment
63. Identify rondo
64. Create rondo
65. Identify stylistic elements of music from other lands