Grade 2

Create Perform Respond Music Literacy
  • Improvise melodic phrases vocally, instrumentally and/or kinesthetically based on familiar verbal, rhythmic, or melodic material
  • Compose with known rhythms (quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter rests, half notes, half rests) and pentatonic scale
  • Improvise musical answers to questions using four beat phrases
  • Create additional verses to a song
  • Maintain rhythmic subdivisions while singing
  • Sing expressively with appropriate dynamics and interpretation
  • Sing from memory songs representing various genres, cultures and historical periods
  • Sing songs with multiple verses
  • Extend vocal range beyond pentatonic
  • Sing ostinati
  • Sing simple intervals do, re, mi, sol, la
  • Perform instrumental ostinati and simple accompaniments while singing
  • Demonstrate appropriate performance behavior
  • Begin to develop head (light) voice
  • Recognize timbre of orchestral instruments that are same/different/similar
  • Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
  • Respond through purposeful movement to musical characteristic, theme, or form (AB, ABA)
  • Compare/contrast music from more than one historical period
  • Identify ways in which music and other disciplines are interrelated
  • Describe and analyze musical selections and performance of self and others using musical terminology
  • Aurally recognize do, re, mi, sol, la tones
  • Respond to program music through prescribed activities
  • Identify equal/unequal sounds to beat
  • Identify beats in triple meter
  • Read do, re, mi, sol, la on staff
  • Read standard notation for quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter notes, half notes and half rests
  • Write music using standard or nonstandard notation
  • Take simple rhythmic diction using known elements
  • Identify symbols for time signature, G clef, and repeat sign