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Learn some of the basics of music theory from note duration to single and compound meter with online lessons, test your ability to recognize notes, keys, and scales with interactive trainers, or generate chords and staff paper using the sites utilities section.
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The Arts: Music

  Curriculum Standard 5
Read and notate music.

Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
  • Read whole, half, dotted half, quarter, and eighth notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meter signatures.
  • Use a system (that is, syllables, numbers, or letters) to read simple pitch notation in the treble clef in major keys. Identify symbols and traditional terms referring to dynamics, tempo, and articulation and interpret them correctly when performing.
  • Use standard symbols to notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics in simple patterns presented by the teacher.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
  • Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8 and alla breve meter signatures.
  • Read at sight simple melodies in both the treble and bass clefs. Identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.Use standard notation to record their musical ideas and the musical ideas of others.


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