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The Arts: Music
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.
- Use appropriate terminology in explaining music, music notation, music instruments and voices, and music performances.
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.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions in their analyses of music.
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.
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.
Additional Proficiency Standards Grades 9-12
In addition to the above, students will be able to:
- Identify and explain the stylistic features of a given music work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context.
- Identify and describe music genres or styles that show the influence of two or more cultural traditions, identify the cultural source of each influence, and trace the historical conditions that produced the synthesis of influences.
Curriculum Standard 10
Identify the range of careers in the field of music.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Identify local, national, or international individuals who are composers/arrangers of music.
