MUS-04.c1.A
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4th Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard
(c1) Category 1: Executive Skills and Knowledge
(A) Body Format
Students perform with a lengthened and balanced posture; supports instrument without tension, demonstrate ease of motion; format is adjusted for physiological changes due to growth; control of weight distribution, unilateral movement, bilateral movement, in sitting and standing position.
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 Proficiency Scale
Learning Targets
- 1.1 Establish posture (sitting and standing) on all instruments.
- 1.2 Basic playing position for violin and viola.
- 1.3 Basic playing position for cello.
- 1.4 Basic playing position for bass.
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MUS-04.c1.B
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4th Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard
(c1) Category 1: Executive Skills and Knowledge
(B) Left Hand Skills and Knowledge
Students perform with the correct placement and angle of the left arm-wrist-hand-fingers to the instrument; demonstrate position that is balanced and free of tension; play with independence of fingers, ease of motion and control of finger weight; produce characteristic tone, with vibrato (as appropriate); show understanding and ability to apply fingerings, finger patterns, shifting, extensions.
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Proficiency Scale
Learning Targets
- 1.1 Initial left hand finger placement
- 1.2 Initial finger patterns
- 1.3 Lateral finger movement
- 1.4 Vertical technique
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MUS-04.c1.C
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4th Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard
(c1) Category 1: Executive Skills and Knowledge
(C) Right Hand Skills and Knowledge
Students perform with fluent bowing motion, control of variables (weight, angle, speed, and placement), in a variety of bowing techniques and articulations, with characteristic tone.
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Proficiency Scale
Learning Targets
- 1.1 Perform pizzicato in guitar position
- 1.2 Perform pizzicato in playing position
- 1.3 Establishing initial bow hold–all instruments
- a. Violin/Viola
- b. Cello/Bass (FB)
- c. Cello/Bass (FB)
- 1.4 Perform pre-bowing exercises
- 1.5 Perform with simple connected (détaché) bow strokes.
- 1.6 Perform with simple separated (staccato) bow strokes.
- 1.7 Direction change
- 1.8 Short slurs
- 1.9 String crossings
- 1.10 Basic bow distribution
- 1.11 Intro to weight, angle, speed, and placement (contact point and part of bow).
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MUS-04.c2.A
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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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Proficiency Scale
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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MUS-04.c2.B
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4th Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard
(c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge
(B) Rhythmic Aural Skills and Ear Training
Students perform simple and complex rhythm patterns/functions, with stray pulse/beat, correct sense of meter, metric organization and phrasing, in a variety of meters.
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Proficiency Scale
Learning Targets
- 1.1 Students will maintain a steady pulse while singing or chanting rhythm patterns.
- 1.2 Students will demonstrate a sense of meter while singing or chanting rhythm patterns.
- 1.3 Students will maintain a steady pulse while playing rhythm patterns.
- 1.4 Students will demonstrate a sense of meter while playing rhythm patterns.
- 1.5 Students will perform rhythm patterns containing rests.
- 1.6 Students will perform rhythm patterns containing ties.
- 1.7 Students will perform rhythm patterns containing upbeats.
- 1.8 Students will improvise rhythm patterns corresponding to Learning Tasks 1.1-1.7
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