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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
Classical
Composers Archives 
You'll find pictures and biographical information for composers
organized by name, period, birth year or nationality.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle/High
School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes 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.
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