Grades 5-6

Auditory Discrimination

Musical Response

Music Performance

Music Literacy

General Music Knowledge

Pitch - Can hear difference between between higher and lower pitches.

Tonality - Can distinguish between major and non-major tonalities.

Melodic Patterns - Can echo short melodic patterns vocally with accurate pitch.

Sight-Singing - Can sight-sing simple melodies in a major key using do, re, mi, fa, and so.

Rhythm - Can demonstrate difference between beat and rhythm.

Rythm Patterns - Can say/clap rhythm patterns up to 16th notes.

Posture - Demonstrates proper posture for singing.

Interpreting Gestures - Interprets the gestures of a conductor including meter, tempo, dynamics, entrances, releases, and phrasing when singing

Repertoire - Demonstrates knowledge of learned repertoire

Scales - Can sing a major scale with accurate pitch.

Vocal Production - Sings with consistent and supported vocal tone

Vocal Blend - Blends with ensemble vocally.

Part Security - Able to hold own part when singing two-part music.

Notes of the Staff - Can identify notes of the treble staff using letter names.

Solfège - Demonstrates understanding of solfège and its relationship to notes on the staff.

Intervals -  Indentifies intervals by size up to an octave.

Accidentals - Understands half and whole steps and how accidentals work.

Hand signs - Knows hand signs for diatonic scale.

Voice type and range - Can explain what determines voice type/range.

Voice types - Knows the four main voice types and can describe their relative ranges.

Voice function - Demonstrates basic understanding of the voice mechanism and how it functions.

Warm-ups - Knows how to warm-up voice with physical stretches and vocal exercises.