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2016.17 Sixth Grade Beginning Instrumental Music, Quarter 4
On-Going Standards: Students will regularly demonstrate proper daily maintenance of their instruments at an age-appropriate level. They
will demonstrate understanding of historical connections to the music being performed.
Standards
Student Friendly “I Can” Statements
Proper Instrument Care and Maintenance
6.IM.2.1.1 Assemble/Disassemble instrument and demonstrate
proper storage/handling of instrument.
I can clean and maintain the playing condition of my instrument.
6.IM.2.1.2 Demonstrate proper daily maintenance routine. (i.e., corks,
slides, valves, reeds, bows, strings).
I can periodically clean and maintain the playing condition of my
instrument.
Technique
6.IM.2.3.1 Demonstrate correct posture (in sitting and/or standing
positions), proper hand position, and instrument carriage.
I can demonstrate and apply correct technique on my instrument by:
 sitting or standing with correct posture
 holding my instrument, mallets or sticks properly
 placing my fingers in the correct places to accurate intonation
6.WCE.IM.1 Maintain a practice log and/or journal.
I can maintain a practice log and/or journal.
Historical Connections
6.IM.9.1.1 Listen to teacher-selected examples of music from a variety
of historical periods.
I can listen to and perform music from a variety of time periods.
6.IM.9.1.2 List historical periods as related to selected music
examples.
I can identify the time period of the music being rehearsed.
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Big Ideas/Key Concepts: At the beginning level, students should be able to play with correct technique level I band or strings music.
Students should begin to make broad connections between music and other disciplines.
2.0 Playing Instruments
Tuning
6.WCE.IM.5 Determine pitch accuracy using an aural model.
I can determine whether I am flat or sharp by listening to a given pitch
and comparing it to my own sound.
I can adjust my instrument appropriately to correct intonation
problems.
Characteristic Tone Quality
6.IM.2.2.1 Produce a fundamental tone.
I can produce a characteristic tone throughout a wider range of my
instrument.
Technique
6.IM.2.3.2 Demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of breathing,
bowing, embouchure, fingering, articulation, and/or percussion
sticking.
I can demonstrate proficient technique on Grade 1 music.
Pitch and Rhythms
6.IM.2.4.2 Identify, notate, and perform basic rhythms and pitches.
I demonstrate my ability to read music in the keys of Bb, Eb and F in
band or D, G and C in strings by performing beginning music.
I can demonstrate rhythmic accuracy on whole, dotted half, half,
quarter and eighth notes at a more advanced level.
Musicality
6.IM.2.5.2 Identify and demonstrate an understanding of selected
concepts of style.
Sight-Reading
6.IM.2.6.2 Apply basic elements associated with successful sightreading.
I can play different styles of music using a variety of techniques on my
instrument (such as slides for fiddle music, or bends and swing for
jazz).
I can apply basic sight-reading skills by accurately performing the
pitches and rhythms of a new piece of basic music.
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Scales and Rudiments
6.IM.2.7.2 Perform a major scale in at least four keys/four rudiments.
Wind/Mallet
I can play the Bb, Eb, F and Ab major scales one octave on my wind or
mallet instrument.
Strings
I can play C, G, D and F major scales one octave on my string
instrument.
Percussion
I can play the flam, flam tap, multiple bounce roll and single
paradiddle on my percussion instrument.
4.0 Composing
6.IM.4.2.1 Understand individual instrument transposition (concert
pitch versus actual pitch).
I can demonstration transposition by performing a piece in multiple
keys.
6.0 Listening and Analyzing
6.IM.6.1.2 Recognize the difference between vocal or instrumental
examples.
I can recognize the difference between choral, orchestral and band
music.
6.IM.6.2.2 Describe, verbally or by writing/drawing/mapping, specific
events in a musical example.
I can use graphic organizers to identify basic musical form or to
highlight musical events.
7.0 Evaluating
6.IM.7.2.1 Present an oral or written evaluation of a performance of
another person using appropriate vocabulary/terminology.
I can evaluate and improve my own performance by comparison with
an exemplary performance of the same piece.
6.IM.7.2.3 Compare and contrast two different performances of the
same excerpt using appropriate vocabulary/terminology.
WCE.IM.6 Analyze a listening example (either professional or
personal) using appropriate academic vocabulary.
I can analyze a listening example using the following academic
vocabulary:
 Tone quality
 Intonation
 Rhythm
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8.0 Interdisciplinary Connections
6.IM.8.1.2 Compare and contrast common terms used in the arts
disciplines.
I can compare and contrast how different terms are used in music,
visual art, theater and dance including:
 Color
 Balance
 Rhythm
 Texture
 Imagery
6.IM.8.3.1 Identify different forms of technology used in creating,
producing and listening to music.
9.0 Historical and Cultural Relationships
6.IM.9.2.2 Discuss distinguishing characteristics of music of selected
cultures.
6.IM.9.3.1 Discuss the role of music in daily life throughout history.
I can identify different forms of technology associated with music.
I can recognize and discuss music from one or more cultures.
I can discuss the role of music in daily life throughout history.
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Accuracy
Interpretation
Musicianship
Articulations
Performance factors