New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Creating Music 
Try your hand at composing and playing with music at this interactive site for kids.
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The Arts: Music
Curriculum Standard 2
Perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Echo short rhythms and melodic patterns.
Curriculum Standard 3
Improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Improvise "answers" in the same style to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.
- Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic ostinato accompaniments.
- Improvise simple rhythmic variations and simple melodic embellishments on familiar melodies.
- Improvise short songs and instrumental pieces, using a variety of sound sources, including traditional sounds, nontraditional sounds available in the classroom, body sounds, and sounds produced by electronic means.
Curriculum Standard 4
Compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Create and arrange short songs and instrumental pieces within specified guidelines.
- Use a variety of sound sources when composing.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Compose short pieces within specified guidelines, demonstrating how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and balance.
- Arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written.
- Use traditional and nontraditional sound sources and electronic.
