Grade 4 Fine Arts Washington Standards

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

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters.

Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.

Present the final version of personal created music to others, and explain connection to expressive intent.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform using iconic and/or standard notation.

Explain how context (such as social and cultural) informs a performance.

Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre).

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges.

Perform music, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre.

Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Demonstrate and explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as social and cultural).

Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre) are used in performers’ and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.

P E R F O R M I N G

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Refine and complete artistic work.

R E S P O N D I N G

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural , and historical context to deepen understanding.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

C O N N E C T I N G

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

C R E A T I N G

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

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use standard notation or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Share final versions of simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies, demonstrating an understanding of how to develop and organize personal musical ideas.

Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments is selected, based on personal interest, music reading skills, and technical skill, as well as the context of the performances.

Identify prominent melodic and harmonic characteristics in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, including at least some based on reading standard notation.

Demonstrate and describe in interpretations an understanding of the context and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, and apply practice strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Perform with expression and technical accuracy in individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments, demonstrating understanding of the audience and the context.

Demonstrate and describe reasons for selecting music, based on characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, or personal experience.

Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts in musical selections and how these and knowledge of the context (social or cultural) inform the response.

Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, referring to the elements of music, context (personal or social), and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Identify and describe how interest, experiences, and contexts (personal or social) affect the evaluation of music.

C O N N E C T I N G

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Refine and complete artistic work.

C R E A T I N G

P E R F O R M I N G

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural , and historical context to deepen understanding.

R E S P O N D I N G

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

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

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Compose and improvise melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that reflect characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Select and develop draft melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through standard notation and audio recording.

Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and teacher-provided criteria.

Share personally-developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives—individually or as an ensemble—that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music reading skills (where appropriate), an understanding of the structure of the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual or ensemble.

Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances.

Identify expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music that can be demonstrated through prepared and improvised performances.

Use self-reflection and peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.

Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music, connection to interest, and purpose or context.

Identify how knowledge of context and the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts inform the response to music.

Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Identify and describe the effect of interest, experience, analysis, and context on the evaluation of music.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

C O N N E C T I N G

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural , and historical context to deepen understanding.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

P E R F O R M I N G

Refine and complete artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

R E S P O N D I N G

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

C R E A T I N G

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

R E S P O N D I N G

C O N N E C T I N G

P R E S E N T I N G

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work .

C R E A T I N G

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Create works of art that reflect community cultural traditions.

Through observation, infer information about time, place, and culture in which a work of art was created.

Brainstorm multiple approaches to a creative art or design problem.

Collaboratively set goals and create artwork that is meaningful and has purpose to the makers.

Explore and invent art-making techniques and approaches.

When making works of art, utilize and care for materials, tools, and equipment in a manner that prevents danger to oneself and others.

Document, describe, and represent regional constructed environments.

Revise artwork in progress on the basis of insights gained through peer discussion.

Analyze how past, present, and emerging technologies have impacted the preservation and presentation of artwork.

Analyze the various considerations for presenting and protecting art in various locations, indoor or outdoor settings, in temporary or permanent forms, and in physical or digital formats.

Compare and contrast purposes of art museums, art galleries, and other venues, as well as the types of personal experiences they provide.

Compare responses to a work of art before and after working in similar media.

Analyze components in visual imagery that convey messages.

Interpret art by referring to contextual information and analyzing relevant subject matter, characteristics of form, and use of media.

Apply one set of criteria to evaluate more than one work of art.