In fourth grade music, we begin by reviewing essential concepts learned in earlier grades. This includes:
- Matching pitch
- Keeping a steady beat
- Echoing simple rhythms and melodic phrases
- Musical elements such as loud/soft, high/low, and fast/slow
Fourth grade music learning goals include:
- Learning musical notation: note names and symbols on the staff
- Matching and performing solfege pitches "sol", "mi", "la", "do", and "ti".
- Reading and performing simple rhythms from musical notation, such as quarter, 8th, half, and whole notes/rests with numerical counting
- Singing in rounds and canons
- Expanding knowledge of famous works and composers
- Learning how to improvise during group songs and games
- Performing, creating, and improvising on mallet instruments (soprano glockenspiels) and unpitched percussion
- Performing, creating and improvising on bucket drums