Music · Grade 4

Skills

• Sings a song in tune, from memory, in front of an audience.
• Sings a simple harmony against a melody without being pulled off it.
• Keeps a rhythmic ostinato going under a melody.
• Names the notes on the treble clef stave and finds them on an instrument.
• Reads a time signature and a bar line; knows what a sharp and a flat do.
• Plays a piece of real music from notation, hands or fingers in the right places.
• Plays as part of an ensemble, listening to the others rather than only to themselves.
• Describes a piece using real vocabulary: tempo, dynamics, pitch, mood, instrumentation.
• Composes a short piece with a beginning, a middle and an end.