Content Area: Visual and Performing Arts

 

Index: 1.2B Grade 4 CPI 4

 

Standard: 1.2 - Creation and Performance

 

Strand: B - Music

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 - The student will modify elements of music within a piece to create different expressive ideas.

 

Grade: 4

 

Sample Activities:

 

Musical Modifications - Select a simple song, such as a Verse and Refrain.
·      Divide class into vocalists and instrumentalists.
·      Instruments may include recorders, tone chimes and rhythm instruments.
·      All instruments will play an accompaniment from a written page.
·      After performing the piece, students can suggest modifications to the elements of music to create a different version of the piece (changing meter, rhythms, dynamics, rearranging when instruments play).
 

Essential Question:
·      How can modifications make the piece more or less interesting?

 

Reflective Practice:
·      Of the modifications made, which modification had the most effect on the original song?


 

 

The contents of the CPI's and Framework Activites come from the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (NJCCCS) - CD-ROM (Version 1.0), which was developed collaboratively by the Newark Teachers Union (NTU) and Seton Hall University (SHU)

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