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?