Grade 5 • Music What Your Child Will Learn

Grade 5 Music

What Your Child WIll Learn

At all levels, music education in Howard County focuses on these three artistic processes:

  • Performing: Realizing artistic ideas and work through individual or ensemble performance or presentation
  • Creating: Conceiving and developing artistic ideas through music-making while connecting to historical, contextual, and personal events
  • Responding: Synthesis of meaning, context, and process through interaction with, and connection to the musical world

Musical concepts are carefully sequenced through kinesthetic, aural, and visual experiences. The student's singing voice is the primary instrument and developed throughout the elementary general music curriculum.

Melody and Pitch

  • Write simple melodic patterns from dictation using quarter, eighth, half and whole notes, and corresponding rests (melodic range of five notes, two measures).
  • Notate individually created melodies on the treble staff using standard notation.
  • Read and perform simple pitch notation on the treble staff in the Key of F and G major using solfeggio or comparable system.
  • Perform, accurately and independently, melody parts while other students sing or play on contrasting parts.

Harmony and Texture

  • Sing songs accurately in simple two-part harmony using a two-staff system.
  • Read standard chord symbols and play the repeated chords on a classroom instrument (I, IV, and V).

Tone Color

  • Identify by sight and sound: flute, clarinet saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, violin, cello, timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and xylophone.
  • Identify instruments by sight and sound from other cultures, such as steel drums, pan-pipes, conga drums, gong, tabla, sitar, and guitar.
  • Describe sounds heard with attention to the tone color (same, step, and skip).
  • Listen to and identify soprano, alto, tenor, and bass in two-part music.

Tempo

  • Sing and play a variety of music at a given tempi.

Rhythm

  • Perform accurately simple rhythm at sight from standard notation, eighth rest, one eight note, two sixteenth notes connected, and two sixteenth notes and eighth notes connected.
  • Perform accurately rhythmically instrumental parts while the other students sing or play contrasting parts.

Movement

  • Perform improvised movements to communicate meaning or feeling in music.
  • Conduct music in meter of three.

Dynamics

  • Sing and play in a group matching dynamic levels and responding to the conducting cues of the teacher.
  • Incorporate dynamic variations in a performance.

Form

  • Recognize and perform a variety of forms.