Manitoba Education
Music Language and Performance Skills (M-L3) »
Students demonstrate awareness and understanding of rhythm, melody, texture, and harmony in a variety of musical contexts.
Students who have achieved expectations for this grade are able to
| Kindergarten | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 |
| Rhythm | ||||
| respond to and, with guidance, perform a steady beat and grade-appropriate rhythmic patterns in a variety of metres
K M-L3.1 |
recognize, identify, and perform with others a steady beat and a variety of grade-appropriate rhythmic and accent patterns in a variety of metres
1 M-L3.1 |
perform a steady beat and a variety of grade-appropriate rhythmic and accent patterns with increasing independence, and demonstrate awareness of metre
2 M-L3.1 |
perform and respond to a steady beat and grade-appropriate rhythmic patterns independently, and identify and respond to simple, duple, and triple metres
3 M-L3.1 |
perform and demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex rhythmic and metric concepts (e.g., syncopation, compound metres)
4 M-L1.1 |
| Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony | ||||
| Melody | ||||
| respond to, describe, and reproduce simple changes in pitch and melodic direction
K M-L3.3 |
describe and reproduce changes in pitch, melodic contour, and simple melodies
1-2 M-L3.3 |
describe and reproduce increasingly complex melodies
3-4 M-L3.3 |
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| demonstrate understanding of melodic design (e.g., home tone, step-wise motion, melodic contour)
2-4 M-L3.4 |
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| demonstrate understanding that melodies are created from a particular set of tones (modes)
3-8 M-L3.5 |
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| demonstrate understanding that melodic relationships can be transposed to different tonal centres
3-8 M-L3.6 |
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| identify the difference between major and minor modes
3-4 M-L3.7 |
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| Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony | ||||
| Texture and Harmony | ||||
| differentiate between individual and combined sounds (one instrument versus two or more instruments)
K M-L3.8 |
demonstrate understanding that the layering of sounds creates texture and/or harmony
1-4 M-L3.8 |
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| demonstrate and identify various ways of creating texture and harmony in music
1-4 M-L3.9 |
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| create simple rhythmic and harmonic texture in music
1 M-L3.10 |
use two or more layers of sound to create simple texture and harmony, demonstrating understanding of complementary rhythms
2 M-L3.10 |
use several layers of sound and increasingly complex patterns to create texture and harmony
3 M-L3.10 |
identify and use chord changes in two-chord songs
4 M-L3.10 |
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| Appendix A: Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony | ||||
