MUS-04.c2.A

BPSS-MAT-NO logo 4th Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard  
  (c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge
(A) Tonal Aural Skills and Ear Training
Students demonstrate the following abilities: matching and manipulating pitch, playing with a sense of tonality, tonal-melodic and tonal-harmonic function (horizontal/vertical relationships/functions of tonality), ear-to-hand skills, aural and kinesthetic awareness of pitch accuracy and intonation, including and related to improvisation.

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Learning Targets

  • 1.1  Students perform, by ear, melodic tonal patterns (simple patterns and melodies within a tetrachord), in major and minor tonalities (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege).
  • 1.2  Students identify whether two performed melodic tonal patterns are the same or different.
  • 1.3  Students correctly associate the words high and low with relative pitch differences (e.g., with the use of Curwen hand symbols and vocal solfege). 
  • 1.4  Students correctly identify the direction of melodic motion (with a  tetrachord). 
  • 1.5  Students alter melodies and  harmonies (major-to-minor,  minor-to-major). 
  • 1.6  Students perform, by ear, primary (tonic and dominant) harmonic tonal patterns (vocally, pizzicato, and/or arco; neutral syllable, then solfege). 
  • 1.7  Students improvise (vocally,  pizzicato, and/or arco) melodic tonal patterns (within a tetrachord;  neutral syllable, then solfege).

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