Grade 1 Fine Arts SOL Standards

Musicianship and Ensemble Skills

Instrumental Technique

Instrumental Procedures

Scales

Music Literacy: Acquire the technical skills and artistic knowledge necessary for creative, expressive, and artistic performance. Demonstrate understanding of elements of music and ways they are used for artistic performance and creative expression

Technique and Application

Cultivate connections to other fine arts and fields of knowledge. Identify and cultivate connections between music and other fields of knowledge to develop problem-solving skills.

Understand and explore the impact of current and emerging technologies. Participate in a rapidly changing world of music and explore the impact of current and emerging technologies, media, and processes.

College, career, and the 21st Century Workplace. Connect music content and skills to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace.

Innovation in the Arts

Ethical and legal considerations for music and intellectual property. Identify and understand ethical and legal considerations for engaging with music, resources, and source material as a responsible citizen.

Understand music as a form of community engagement. Identify and interact with music and develop a lifelong engagement as a performer, supporter, advocate, and audience member.

Understand cultural and historical influences of music. Demonstrate understanding of cultural and historical influences of music.

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Develop collaboration and communication skills for music rehearsal and performance. Identify and apply collaboration and communication skills for rehearsal and performance of music.

Formulate and justify personal responses and connections to music. Recognize, justify, and articulate personal responses, beliefs, and opinions regarding music and recognize the value in learning about diverse opinions and responses to music.

Analyze, interpret, and evaluate music. Develop critical thinking skills in the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of the work of self and others.

Critical Thinking and Communication

Understand and apply a creative process to develop ideas for creating and performing music. Understand and apply a creative process to guide the development of ideas and original work.

Apply creative thinking to composing and improvising music. Apply creative thinking by employing originality, flexibility, experimentation, individual voice, and imagination to improvise and compose music.

Creative Process

The student will create music as a means of individual expression.

Compose a four-measure rhythmic-melodic variation

Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic examples in call-and-response styles.

Play and write rhythmic variations of four-measure selections taken from existing melodies, exercises, or etudes.

The student will identify ways in which culture and technology influence the development of music and musical styles.

The student will identify the connections of instrumental music to the other fine arts and other fields of knowledge.

The student will demonstrate music literacy.

Identify, define, and use basic standard and instrument specific notation for pitch, rhythm, meter, articulation, dynamics, and other elements of music.

Notate student-created compositions using standard notation.

Sing selected lines from music being studied.

Echo, read, count (using a counting system), and perform simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns, including whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted half notes, dotted quarter notes, and corresponding rests.

Identify, read, and perform music in simple meters ( 2 4 , 3 4 , 4 4 , C).

Define and apply music terminology found in the music literature being studied.

Read and interpret standard music notation while performing music of varying styles and levels of difficulty.

Sight-read music of varying styles.

The student will identify and demonstrate half-step and whole-step patterns in order to read, notate, and perform scales and key signatures.

Wind/percussion student—one-octave concert F and B-flat major scales.

Orchestral string student—one-octave D and G major scales.

The student will demonstrate preparatory instrumental basics and playing procedures.

Identify and select an appropriate instrument.

Identify parts of the instrument.

Identify procedures for care of the instrument.

Identify proper playing posture and instrument position.

Understand procedures for basic tuning of the instrument with a visual aid or electronic tuner.

The student will demonstrate proper instrumental techniques.

Identify correct hand positions, finger/slide placement, fingerings/positions, and finger/slide patterns.

Produce tones that are clear, free of tension, and sustained.

Wind student—proper breathing techniques and embouchure; contrasting articulations (tonguing, slurring, staccato, accent).

Orchestral string student—bow hold, straight bow stroke; contrasting articulations (pizzicato, legato, staccato, two-note slurs).

Percussion student—stick control, appropriate grip, and performance of beginning roll, diddle, and flam rudiments, and multiple bounce roll.

The student will demonstrate musicianship and ensemble skills at a beginning level.

Identify the characteristic sound of the instrument being studied.

Playing unisons.

Differentiate between unisons that are too high or low in order to match pitches.

Make adjustments to facilitate correct intonation.

Balance instrumental timbres.

Match dynamic levels and playing style.

Maintain a steady beat at various tempos in the music literature being studied.

Respond to conducting patterns and gestures.

Begin to use articulations and dynamic contrasts as a means of expression.

The student will apply a creative process for music.

Identify and apply steps of a creative process.

Collaboratively identify and examine inquiry-based questions related to music.

Monitor individual practice and progress toward goals.

The student will analyze, interpret, and evaluate music.

Describe diverse works of music using inquiry skills and music terminology.

Identify accepted criteria used for evaluating works of music.

Describe performances of music using music terminology.

The student will formulate and justify personal responses to music.

Identify reasons for preferences among works of music using music terminology.

) Identify ways in which music evokes sensory, emotional, and intellectual responses, including ways in which music can be persuasive.

The student will identify and demonstrate collaboration and communication skills for music.

Participate in school performances and community events as appropriate to level, ability, and interest.

Describe and demonstrate rehearsal and concert etiquette as a performer (e.g., using critical aural skills, following conducting gestures, maintaining attention in rest position).

Describe and demonstrate active listening in rehearsal and as an audience member.

The student will explore historical and cultural influences of music.

Identify the cultural influences, musical styles, composers, and historical periods associated with the music literature through listening, performing, and studying.

Identify ways in which culture influences the development of instruments, instrumental music, and instrumental music styles.

The student will explore the functions of music, including the use of music as a form of expression, communication, ceremony, and entertainment.

The student will identify intellectual property as it relates to music.

The student will identify career options in music.

Music and Movement

Meter

Rhythm

Instrumental Performance

Vocal Performance

Music Literacy: Acquire the technical skills and artistic knowledge necessary for creative, expressive, and artistic performance. Demonstrate understanding of elements of music and ways they are used for artistic performance and creative expression

Technique and Application

Cultivate connections to other fine arts and fields of knowledge. Identify and cultivate connections between music and other fields of knowledge to develop problem-solving skills.

Understand and explore the impact of current and emerging technologies. Participate in a rapidly changing world of music and explore the impact of current and emerging technologies, media, and processes.

College, career, and the 21st Century Workplace. Connect music content and skills to career options, college opportunities, and the 21st Century workplace.

Innovation in the Arts

Ethical and legal considerations for music and intellectual property Identify and understand ethical and legal considerations for engaging with music, resources, and source material as a responsible citizen.

Understand music as a form of community engagement. Identify and interact with music and develop a lifelong engagement as a performer, supporter, advocate, and audience member.

Understand cultural and historical influences of music. Demonstrate understanding of cultural and historical influences of music.

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Develop collaboration and communication skills for music rehearsal and performance. Identify and apply collaboration and communication skills for rehearsal and performance of music.

Formulate and justify personal responses and connections to music. Recognize, justify, and articulate personal responses, beliefs, and opinions regarding music and recognize the value in learning about diverse opinions and responses to music.

Analyze, interpret, and evaluate music. Develop critical thinking skills in the analysis, interpretation, and evaluation of the work of self and others.

Critical Thinking and Communication

Understand and apply a creative process to develop ideas for creating and performing music. Understand and apply a creative process to guide the development of ideas and original work.

Apply creative thinking to composing and improvising music. Apply creative thinking by employing originality, flexibility, experimentation, individual voice, and imagination to improvise and compose music.

Creative Process

The student will improvise and compose music.

Improvise vocal responses to given melodic questions.

Improvise body percussion.

Improvise to enhance stories, songs, and poems.

Compose simple rhythmic patterns.

The student will recognize how music can be created using innovative tools and new media.

The student will identify relationships between music and concepts learned in another content area.

The student will demonstrate music literacy.

Identify high and low pitches represented by a variety of notational systems.

Read and notate rhythmic patterns that include quarter notes, paired eighth notes, and quarter rests represented by a variety of notational systems.

Identify basic music symbols.

The student will develop skills for individual and ensemble singing performance.

Sing high/low pitches and melodic contour.

Demonstrate expressive qualities of music, including changes in dynamics and tempo.

Use the head voice when singing or matching high pitches.

Sing songs using echo and ensemble singing.

The student will develop skills for individual and ensemble instrumental performance.

Play two-pitch melodies using imitation.

Play expressively with appropriate dynamics and tempo.

Accompany songs and chants using body percussion as well as instruments.

Use proper playing techniques.

The student will recognize and perform rhythmic patterns.

Include patterns that suggest duple and triple meter.

Use instruments, body percussion, and voice.

Include quarter notes, paired eighth notes, and quarter rests.

The student will understand and apply the difference between melodic rhythm and steady beat using body percussion, instruments, and voice.

The student will respond to music with movement.

Use locomotor and non-locomotor movements.

Demonstrate high and low pitches.

Demonstrate expressive qualities of music, including changes in dynamics and tempo.

Perform dances and other music activities.

Dramatize songs, stories, and poems.

The student will apply a creative process for music.

Brainstorm multiple solutions to a musical prompt.

Identify steps taken in the creation of music.

Share ideas for creating music with a group.

The student will analyze music.

Identify and classify the timbres of pitched and non-pitched instruments by sounds.

Differentiate vocal and instrumental music.

Distinguish between accompanied and unaccompanied vocal music.

Recognize differences in melodic and rhythmic patterns and dynamics.

The student will describe personal ideas and emotions evoked by music.

The student will identify collaboration and communication skills for music rehearsal and performance.

Use etiquette appropriate to different types of events/situations (e.g., classical concert, rock concert, sporting event).

Understand active listening as a musician.

Work together to reach a common goal.

The student will explore historical and cultural aspects of music.

Recognize how music is used in the customs and traditions of a variety of cultures.

Describe how people participate in music experiences.

The student will identify musicians in the school, community, and media.

The student will identify appropriate sources of information for learning about music.

The student will describe the roles of music and musicians.

Technique and Application

Innovation in the Arts

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Critical Thinking and Communication

Creative Process

The student will share ideas to improvise elements of stories with a setting, characters, and conflict.

The student will identify and describe how technology is used in theatre.

The student will describe and explore connections between dance, music, visual arts, and theatre experiences.

The student will identify and practice physical and vocal skills for effective communication.

The student will identify the need for physical and vocal warm ups for performers.

The student will explain and explore an imagined reality through theatre activities and performance.

The student will describe responsibilities of performers.

The student will describe why safety procedures are necessary for theatre activities and performances.

The student will generate ideas and collaborate to expand ideas and solve challenges in theatre activities and processes.

The student will describe similarities and differences of a theatre performance and the story it is based on.

The student will describe personal reactions or responses to theatre works.

The student will identify skills needed to collaborate in theatre activities and performances, such as performer and audience etiquette for a variety of theatre settings.

The student will identify and respond to theatrical works from a variety of time periods, places, and people.

The student will identify and describe reasons why people create, view, and participate in theatre experiences.

The student will explore appropriate sources for viewing theatrical works.

The student will identify and discuss careers in theatre.

The student will apply creative thinking to artmaking

Experiment with materials.

Make unconventional combinations of ideas or objects in artwork.

The student will recognize how artists use current technology and contemporary media to create works of art.

The student will identify connections between the arts by incorporating or responding to music, theatre, or dance in their artwork.

The student will identify and use the following in works of art:

Color—primary, secondary.

Line—zigzag, dotted, wavy, spiral.

Shape—geometric, organic.

Texture—visual, tactile.

Pattern—alternating, repeating

The student will identify and apply spatial relationships for composition

Arrange shapes in space within the picture plane.

Identify and use figure ground relationships.

Identify and use size relationships.

The student will create observational drawings of people and objects in the environment.

The student will apply motor skills (e.g., cutting, modeling, molding, tearing, weaving) to create two- and three-dimensional works of art.

The student will apply a variety of media, materials, techniques, and processes to create artwork.

The student will create works of art inspired by a variety of sources and subjects.

Use the senses of sight, touch, and hearing.

Create works of art inspired by stories or poems, ideas, and themes.

Depict personal experiences

The student will apply a creative process for artmaking.

Examine a variety of solutions to art-making challenges.

Describe steps used in the creation of works of art.

The student will analyze and interpret artwork using art vocabulary

Describe the visual qualities and content of works of art.

Describe similarities and differences among works of art.

Describe how ideas, opinions, and emotions are communicated in works of art

The student will share a response to art and explain why viewers may have different responses to works of art.

The student will identify skills needed to work collaboratively in a creative art community

The student will explore and recognize cultural and historical influences of art

Explain a variety of reasons why works of art can have importance

Describe how art is an integral part of one’s culture.

The student will identify artwork and artists in the community and Commonwealth

The student will identify appropriate sources of information for learning about art.

The student will describe various careers in the visual arts.

Creative Process

Critical Thinking and Communication

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Innovation in the Arts

Technique and Application