MS Music Guide

Topic 2: Music Reading & Literacy Level 1: Vocal Music

Level 1 STANDARDS:

● Standard L1.MC.CR.2: Sing a consequent phrase for a given antecedent phrase. ● Standard L1.MC.CR.3: With guidance, improvise/generate rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas and phrases. ● Standard L1.MC.CR.4: Develop aural skills: intervals, major/minor modality, and rhythmic and melodic dictation. ● Standard L1.MC.CR.5: Develop, organize and notate, with guidance, basic rhythmic and melodic ideas and phrases with guidance. ● Standard L1.MC.P.4: Demonstrate technical performance skills by singing correct pitches and rhythms in skill appropriate literature. ● Standard L1.MC.P.5: Demonstrate notational literacy in correctly sight-singing simple melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. ● Standard L1.MC.R.3: Identify and describe, with guidance, the musical and structural elements that contribute to a quality musical work.

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS:

-Outstanding accuracy. -Correct pulse/meter/notes used throughout the performance. -Demonstration of aural skills. -Demonstrate ability to refne/improvise phrases or musical ideas. -Describe musical and structural elements in a piece of music.

WISR CONNECTIONS:

Writing, Inquiry, Speaking, Listening, Reading, Viewing

CONCEPTS:

VOCABULARY:

SKILLS:

*Be profcient in the following pitch notation/sight singing areas: Identify the lines and spaces of bass and treble clef Read any major key signature Identify scale degrees/solfege syllables of tonal selections *Be profcient in the following rhythmic notation/sight singing areas: Identify the note and rest values Identify the functions of the top and bottom numbers of a time signature Know how to build a complete measure. Know how to subdivide in time signatures with 2, 4, or 8 at the bottom. *Interpret basic dynamic and expression markings within a piece of repertoire.

Note Reading Rhythms Steady Pulse/Beat Tempo Terms & Symbols Dynamics

All Note and Rest Names Staff Notation Key Signature Markings Metric Markings Dynamic Markings Tempo Markings Expression Markings