Grade 5 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 melodies and rhythms of increasing complexity.

Compose a short original composition within specified guidelines.

The student will investigate and explore innovative ways to make music.

The student will compare and contrast relationships between music and other fields of knowledge for the development of problem-solving skills.

The student will demonstrate music literacy.

Identify the treble (G) and bass (F) clefs.

Use a system to sight-read melodies based on the diatonic scale.

Use traditional notation to write melodies containing skips and leaps.

Read and notate rhythmic patterns of increasing complexity.

Identify the meaning of the upper and lower numbers of compound time signatures (6/8).

Identify tempo markings.

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

Sing with attention to blend, balance, intonation, and expression.

Sing melodies of increasing complexity notated in varying forms.

Sing in two- and three-part harmony.

Model proper posture for singing.

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

Play music of increasing difficulty in a variety of ensembles.

Play melodies and accompaniments of increasing difficulty notated in varying forms.

Play with expression.

Apply proper playing techniques.

The student will classify, perform, and count rhythmic patterns.

Use a counting system.

Include patterns that suggest duple and triple meter.

Use instruments, body percussion, and voice.

Increase complexity, including syncopations.

The student will demonstrate meter.

Apply accent.

Identify duple and triple meter.

The student will respond to music with movement.

Perform non-choreographed and choreographed movements, including music in duple and triple meters.

Perform dances and other music activities.

The student will apply a creative process for music.

Investigate music by documenting questions and conducting research on a musical topic of interest.

Explain the role of a creative process in developing a music product or performance.

Share finished works of music with a group.

The student will analyze and evaluate music.

Group a variety of instruments into categories based on how their sounds are produced.

Experiment with the science of sound.

Analyze elements of music through listening using music terminology.

Explain theme-and variation form.

Apply accepted criteria when judging the quality of compositions and performances.

The student will analyze personal preferences among music compositions using music terminology.

The student will apply collaboration and communication skills for music creation, rehearsal, and performance.

Exhibit acceptable performance etiquette as a participant and/or listener in relation to the context and style of music performed.

Collaborate with others to create a musical presentation and acknowledge individual contributions as an integral part of the whole.

The student will explore historical and cultural aspects of music.

Identify representative composers and music compositions from different periods of music history.

Compare and contrast a variety of musical styles using music terminology.

Examine factors that may inspire musicians to perform or compose.

The student will describe how people may participate in music within the community as performers, consumers of music, and music advocates.

The student will define intellectual property as it relates to music and the music industry.

The student will recognize various professional music careers (e.g., music producer, recording engineer, composer, arranger, music business, arts administrator, performer, music therapist, music teacher).

Technique and Application

Innovation in the Arts

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Critical Thinking and Communication

Creative Process

The student will collaborate to devise stories and characters.

The student will use available technology to develop theatrical works.

The student will compare and contrast theatre skills and processes with those of other art forms.

The student will use the body and voice to communicate a variety of character traits and emotions in theatre activities.

The student will demonstrate the use of physical warm ups, vocal warm ups, and memorization to prepare for theatre activities and performance.

The student will rehearse and perform short scenes that include a beginning, middle, and end.

The student will compare, contrast, and demonstrate roles and responsibilities of performers and production team in theatre activities.

The student will examine skills and concepts of technical theatre.

Apply safety procedures in all theatre spaces.

Identify skills and concepts for technical areas (e.g., scenery, lighting, sound, costumes, makeup, props).

The student will demonstrate self-reflection and self-evaluation to improve a personal theatrical work or performance, based on specified criteria.

The student will analyze, interpret, and evaluate theatrical works.

Compare and contrast styles of theatre.

Justify personal choices using theatre vocabulary.

Develop criteria to evaluate the work of self and others.

The student will select a preferred theatrical work and defend the selection using appropriate theatre vocabulary.

The student will identify the ensemble and identify ensemble skills for theatre activities and performance.

The student will compare and contrast cultural and historical influences of a variety of theatrical works.

The student will describe how theatre artists contribute to communities and society.

The student will define intellectual property as it relates to theatre.

The student will describe a variety of theatre arts careers.

The student will apply creative thinking to artmaking.

Express personal ideas, images, and themes through artistic choices of media, techniques, and subject matter.

Demonstrate resilience and resourcefulness in solving art challenges.

The student will investigate and explore approaches to time-based media such as video, traditional animation, digital animation, and game design.

The student will explore authentic opportunities for how artmaking skills are used for problem-solving.

The student will use the following to express meaning in works of art:

Color—student-mixed hues, tints, shades, tones.

Form—convex, concave, positive, negative.

Texture—surface embellishment.

Value—gradation to create the illusion of depth on a two dimensional surface.

Balance—formal, informal.

Pattern—repetition to create rhythm.

The student will apply and emphasize spatial relationships and perspective techniques in the composition of works of art.

Use atmospheric perspective in works of art

Use size and proportion to emphasize spatial relationships in works of art

The student will draw the human figure in proportion from observation.

The student will execute and complete works of art with attention to detail and skill in the use of art materials.

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

Create sculpture in the round, high relief, or bas-relief, using three dimensional media, including clay

Combine various craft techniques in works of art.

The student will create works of art inspired by a variety of sources, subjects, and other fields of knowledge

The student will apply a creative process for artmaking.

Apply steps of the creative process, including brainstorming, researching, preliminary sketching, planning, reflecting, and refining, to synthesize ideas for and create works of art.

Use specific criteria to self-evaluate a finished product.

The student will analyze, interpret, and evaluate artwork using art vocabulary.

Compare and contrast natural and constructed environments

Analyze and interpret works of art based on visual properties and context.

Interpret an artist’s point of view based on contextual information.

Develop criteria to evaluate the work of self and others.

The student will select a preferred work of art and defend the selection.

The student will apply skills needed to work collaboratively in an art community.

Effectively use listening skills.

Apply communication skills in class discussions and presentations.

Recognize a variety of strengths in others and oneself.

The student will explore and examine cultural and historical influences of art.

Describe how criteria used to assess the importance of art may vary over time.

Examine the influence of historic events on works of art.

Describe similarities and differences among art and artists from a variety of diverse cultures and experiences.

Compare and contrast contemporary and historical works of art, including architecture.

The student will describe how artists contribute to society

The student will define intellectual property as it relates to art.

The student will describe various commercial art careers.

Creative Process

Critical Thinking and Communication

History, Culture, and Citizenship

Innovation in the Arts

Technique and Application