## North Carolina Early Learning and Development Progressions: Birth to Five

#### Domain: NC Foundations for Early Learning: Cognitive Development (CD)

#### Subdomain: Creative Expression

#### Goal: Children demonstrate appreciation for different forms of artistic expressions.

#### Skill Progression: Music

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List of Skills by Age

1-2 Months

Calms to rhythmic movement, sounds, and music

2-4 Months

Listens to sounds and begins to differentiate

4-6 Months

Comforted by soft, rhythmic melodious sounds, music, and movement (stops crying)

6-8 Months

Reacts differently to different musical patterns

8-10 Months

Listens attentively to sounds and words

Watches and tries to imitate movements

10-12 Months

Bounces to rhythm while standing

12-15 Months

Shows intense interest in speech sounds and music

15-18 Months

Imitate sounds, words, and movements

18-21 Months

Remembers short action sequences

21-24 Months

Identifies preference in instrumental music

24-27 Months

Increases activity level with fast rhythms

27-30 Months

Attends to more than one characteristic of objects at a time (sound and movement)

30-33 Months

Remembers pictures, finger plays, dance moves, songs

33-36 Months

Names or sings favorite songs, finger plays, etc.

36-42 Months

Imbues music, dances with emotion

42-48 Months

Enjoys group singing and dance

48-54 Months

Begins to be aware of musical syntax (rules for how the various aspects of music come together) and to understand and use musical phrases (segments of music)

Attention span for listening to music increases in length and interests expand to various types of music

54-60 Months

Capable of learning some basic musical concepts such as pitch (high/low), duration (long/short), tempo (fast/slow), and loudness (soft/loud)

Sense of pitch, rhythm, and melody emerging

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2015

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