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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.
- Identify the sounds of different instruments, including many orchestra and band instruments, and instruments from various cultures, as well as children’s voices and male and female adult voices.
- Respond through purposeful movement to selected prominent features in a piece.
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.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.
- Identify and explain composition devices and techniques used to provide unity, variety, and tension and release in a musical work, and give examples of other works that make similar uses of these devices and techniques.
- Demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events.
- Compare ways in which musical materials are used in a given example relative to ways in which they are used in other works of the same genre or style.
- Analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive.
Curriculum Standard 7
Evaluate music and music performances.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade four students will be able to:
- Devise criteria for evaluating performances and compositions.
- Explain, using appropriate music terminology, personal preferences for specific musical works and styles.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade eight students will be able to:
- Develop criteria for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions and apply the criteria in their own personal listening and performing.
- Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own and others’ performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations by applying specific criteria appropriate for the style of the music.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Develop specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations, then apply the criteria in their personal participation in music;
- Evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.
- Evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical devices it uses to evoke feelings and emotions.
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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