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NY Philharmonic Kidzone 
Can you tell the difference between a violin and a viola? You can learn about the instruments in an orchestra, explore the music and lives of famous composers, play some music games or try you hand at composing your own music at this site from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
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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.
Curriculum Standard 6
Listen to, analyze, and describe music.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Identify simple music forms when presented aurally.
- Demonstrate perceptual skills by moving to, inquiring about, and describing aural examples of music from various styles representing diverse cultures.
- Identify the sounds of different instruments, including many orchestra and band instruments, and instruments from various cultures, as well as children's voices and male and female adult voices.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Describe specific music events in a given aural example, using appropriate terminology.
- Analyze how elements of music are expressed in diverse genres and cultures.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music, representing diverse genres and cultures, by describing the uses of elements of music and expressive devices.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
- Compare ways in which musical materials are used in a given example relative to ways in which they are used in other works of the same genre or style.
- Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive.
Curriculum Standard 9
Understand music in relation to history and culture.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Identify by genre or style aural examples of music from various historical periods and cultures.
- Describe in simple terms how elements of music are used in various world cultures.
- Identify many uses of music in their daily experiences and describe characteristics that make certain music suitable for each use.
- Identify and describe the roles of musicians in music settings and cultures.
- Describe the way music has been a continuous part of the history of human culture.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Describe distinguishing characteristics of representative music genres and styles from different cultures.
- Classify by genre, style, historical period, composer, or title bodies of exemplary musical works and explain the characteristics that cause each work to be considered exemplary.
- Compare the role of musicians, the function music serves and conditions under which music is typically performed, in several cultures of the world.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Classify by genre or style and by historical period or culture unfamiliar but representative aural examples of music and explain the reasoning behind their classifications.
- Identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres, and cite well-known musicians associated with them.
- Identify various roles that musicians perform, cite representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describe their activities and achievements.
- Identify and explain the stylistic features of a given music work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.
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