Grade 4 Fine Arts Iowa Standards

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life. (Embedded within: MU:Cr1.1.4a, MU:Pr4.2.4c, MU:Pr6.1.4b, MU:Re7.2.4a, MU:Re9.1.4a)

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music. (Embedded within: MU:Cr2.1.4a, MU:Cr3.2.4a, MU:Pr4.1.4a, MU:Pr4.3.4a, MU:Re7.1.4a)

Connecting

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.

Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre) are used in performers’ and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Demonstrate and explain how a response to music can be informed by its structure and the use of the elements of music.

Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Responding

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre.

Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges.

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of individual and group performances (formal or informal).

Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre).

Explain how context (such as social and cultural) informs a performance.

Read and perform rhythm and pitch using iconic and/or standard notation.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.

Performing

Present the final version of personal created music to others, and explain connection to expressive intent.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.

Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters.

Improvise (for self and/or others) rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).

Creating

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work. (Imagine)

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work. (Plan and Make)

Refine and complete artistic work. (Evaluate and Refine)

Refine and complete artistic work. (Present)

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. (Select)

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. (Analyze)

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation. (Interpret)

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation. (Rehearse, Evaluate, Refine)

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work. (Present)

Perceive and analyze artistic work. (Select)

Perceive and analyze artistic work. (Analyze)

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work. (Interpret)

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work. (Evaluate)

Connects music with other disciplines while preserving the integrity of authentic musical learning experiences.

Recognizes and respects the commonality and diversity among the cultures and histories of the world through musical experiences.

Listens, responds, describes, analyzes and evaluates music critically.

Demonstrates literacy by reading and notating music fluently using appropriate processes and systems.

Creates music and movement using critical thinking to improvise and compose through a collaborative and flexible process.

Uses instruments and body percussion to effectively communicate, collaborate with a group, and produce a musical product.

Uses song, speech, and movement to effectively communicate, collaborate with a group, and produce a musical product.