New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and America 
This site contains folk and traditional music organized by region and genre with lyrics, midi files, tune information and the history behind the folksongs and ballads.
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The Arts: Music
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.
- Demonstrate audience behavior appropriate for the context and style of music performed.
- 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.
- 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.
