District 64

3rd Grade Music Curriculum

Rhythm
Identify, label, and perform dotted half notes
Identify, label, and perform sixteenth notes
Identify, label, and perform whole notes
Identify, label, and perform whole rests
Perceive, perform, and compose in duple meter
Perceive and perform in triple meter

Melody
Identify, label, read, and perform melodies with high do
Identify, label, read, and perform melodies with low sol
Identify label, read, and perform melodies with low la
Identify, label, and read notes on lines and spaces of treble clef
Identify, read, and perform BAG on soprano recorder

Harmony
Perform and label melodic ostinato
Perform a nd label descants
Demonstrate simple bordun (crossover)

Form
Identify sections of a call and response song
Identify i nterlude

Tone Color
Classify standard string and percussion instruments
Perform a nd discriminate between unison and harmony
Perform a nd discriminate between crescendo and decrescendo