Indiana K–6 music standards

Explore how music is used for a variety of purposes and occasions, and discuss personal preference for different musical works.

Identify music concepts and explore ways they are used in other disciplines.

Apply a varied repertoire of music representing genres and styles from diverse world cultures by singing, moving, playing, and demonstrating audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of the music performed.

Improvise by singing a simple melody using self-created text.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas for a specific purpose.

Create movement patterns and describe their relationships to audiation and/or aurally perceived songs.

Utilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to represent simple rhythms and rhythmic patterns of rhymes and songs.

Utilize traditional and/or nontraditional notation to demonstrate simple melodies and melodic patterns of rhymes and songs.

Audiate and accurately speak or sing familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and/or tonalities.

Demonstrate music's expressive qualities (such as louder/softer, higher/lower, faster/slower, same/different) using music vocabulary.

Apply learned criteria to perceive accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.

Use locomotor and non-locomotor movements to demonstrate and maintain a consistent steady beat in both simple and compound meters.

Apply gross and fine motor movement to show upward and downward melodies.

Identify and respond to expressive elements of music and demonstrate through movement in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances.

Sing independently and in groups using head voice and appropriate posture, with accurate pitch and rhythm.

Sing simple songs with expressive qualities, varied tonalities, and meters.

Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences and purposes.

Accurately play a variety of classroom instruments alone and with others using appropriate technique.

Echo and read a variety of rhythmic and/or melodic patterns, and maintain a consistent steady beat while playing an instrument.

Demonstrate and explore how personal interests and skills relate to choices when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Identify and practice life skills developed in music studies and activities, such as cooperation, effort, perseverance, and respect, that transfer to other disciplines and contexts.

Discover, identify, and explore how music connects to language arts, mathematics, and/or science.

Discover, identify, and explore how music connects to other arts and humanities.

Identify, explore, and perform music associated with historical periods and connect to state, regional, and national events.

Compare and contrast contemporary American music with various world cultures through live or recorded authentic performances.

Recognize and describe various roles of musicians in society.

Improvise independently and cooperatively successive melodic phrases to create a song.

Improvise single-line melodic and rhythmic variations of learned songs by singing and using instruments.

Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic accompaniments to songs using pitched and unpitched classroom instruments and/or electronic sound sources.

Demonstrate the rhythm, melody, and form of an audiation and/or aurally perceived song through traditional and/or nontraditional notation.

Plan, notate, and perform rhythmic speech compositions with text, including performance indicators such as tempo and dynamics.

Create, notate, and perform songs in a variety of meters.

Plan, arrange, and perform accompaniments to given melodies within specific guidelines.

Audiate and accurately speak or sing from notated music familiar and unfamiliar rhymes and songs with varied forms, tempi, meters, and tonalities.

Define expressive music terms and apply them to selected musical examples.

Develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply these criteria to performances.

Use conducting and other types of movement to demonstrate rhythmic patterns and simple and compound meters.

Demonstrate changes in melodic contour and simple harmonic progression through movement.

Identify and express age appropriate music concepts including form, phrasing, expressive qualities, and timbre through movement in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances.

Sing in groups and independently while demonstrating appropriate breath control, pitch, diction, tone quality, and posture.

Sing songs from diverse cultures with sensitivity, accurate use of languages, appropriate movement, and/or appropriate use of dynamics, phrasing, and articulation.

Sing unison and two-part songs, partner songs, and rounds, a cappella and with varied accompaniment.

Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences while following the cues of a conductor.

Play pitched and unpitched percussion, keyboard, string, and/or wind instruments using correct techniques for producing sound.

Play melodic, rhythmic, and chordal patterns at a consistent tempo.

Play melodies, accompaniments, and ensemble parts of various styles and cultures on instruments expressively with correct rhythms, tempi, and dynamics.

Perform appropriately for a variety of audiences while following the cues of a conductor.

Identify and demonstrate individual preference for music that is performed, created, and/or listened to in daily life.

Identify various uses of music in daily life and describe the characteristics that make music suitable for a specific use.

Describe and explore how the study of music applies to language arts, mathematics, and/or science.

Compare and describe how the characteristic elements of music and the other arts can be used to depict and/or transform events, scenes, emotions, or ideas into works of art.

Apply music for learning and recalling knowledge and information in other disciplines.

Identify, describe, and perform the distinguishing characteristics of musical works from a variety of genres, styles, historical periods, and cultures.

Identify, describe, and apply through performance uniquely American music genres, trace their evolution, and explore the life and work of musicians associated with each.

Compare and contrast, in various cultures and historical periods, the functions of music, the roles of musicians, and the conditions under which participation in music typically occurs.

Improvise short, unaccompanied rhythms and melodies with consistent style, meter, and/or tonality.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic embellishments and variations using a pentatonic scale and major keys.

Recognize important pitches within a melody and improvise simple harmonic accompaniments.

Use movement, gesture, traditional, and/or nontraditional music notation to demonstrate pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and short melodies that are aurally perceived and/or audiation.

Arrange simple pieces for voices and instruments using performing forces and expressive qualities other than those originally utilized in the piece in ways that preserve the expressive effect of the music.

Utilize both traditional and/or nontraditional notation to compose short pieces within specified guidelines, and demonstrate one's knowledge of the elements of music and how they might be used to create unity or variety, tension and release, and/or balance.

Explore and utilize a variety of traditional and/or nontraditional sound sources and electronic media and technology when composing and arranging music.

Audiate and recognize age appropriate pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and known melodies from movement, gesture, traditional, or nontraditional notation.

Audiate and accurately sing and perform pitch and rhythm patterns, motifs, and melodies in both major and minor modes and simple and compound meters on sight.

Recall, explore, comprehend, and apply appropriate music vocabulary.

Identify elements of music and analyze/describe how they manifest in a musical example.

Develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performers, performances, and compositions and apply the criteria to music that is listened to, performed, and/or created.

Explore the muscular sensations of time and energy through the performance of choreographed movement, including conducting, both in place and in space.

Identify and express the elements of music manifest in specific musical examples through choreographed folk dances, and explore the role of dance in various cultures.

Identify and express age appropriate music concepts including form, phrasing, expressive qualities, and timbre through movement and conducting in listening examples, singing games, and/or simple folk dances.

Sing accurate pitches and rhythms, as modeled and/or visually notated, with appropriate intonation, breath control, diction, and tone quality throughout one's singing range.

Sing with expressive qualities and technical accuracy, as modeled and/or visually notated, and portray appropriate style.

Sing tonal ostinati, canon, counter melodies, drones, or descants, as modeled and/or visually notated, to create harmony and sing in two and/or three parts.

Maintain pitch and rhythmic accuracy, tone quality, tonal center, a steady beat, and appropriate style while singing both with accompaniment and a cappella to portray the composer's intent.

Play accurate pitches and rhythms, as modeled and/or visually notated, in tune with a steady beat, good tone quality, and appropriate technique throughout the known range of the instrument(s).

Play unpitched, melodic, and harmonic instruments with expression and technical accuracy, as modeled and/or visually notated, and portray appropriate style.

Play both rhythmic and tonal ostinati, canon, counter melodies, drones, and descants, as modeled and/or visually notated, to create harmony, and play instruments in two and/or three parts.

Maintain pitch and rhythm accuracy, tone quality, tonal center, a steady beat, appropriate technique, and appropriate style while playing unpitched, melodic, and harmonic instruments to portray the composer's intent.