New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers 
This site has biographies of over 500 composers, from Michael Abels to Ellen Taafe Zwilich!
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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 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:
- 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:
- 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.
