Courses of Study

1) Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific social, cultural, and historical purposes and contexts.

2) Generate musical ideas within specific related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes.

3) Demonstrate selected and developed musical ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.

4) Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and two-chord harmonic musical ideas.

5) Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback, and explain rationale for changes.

6) Present to others the final version of personal created music that demonstrates craftsmanship, and explain connection to expressive intent.

7) Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, and context, as well as their own and others' technical skill.

8) Demonstrate understanding of the formal and harmonic structure created by the elements of music in music selected for performance.

9) When analyzing selected music, read and perform using standard notation.

10) Explain how context (such as social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.

11) Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities that reflect stylistic performance practices.

12) Apply teacher-provided and established criteria and feedback to evaluate the accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.

13) Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities in order to address challenges and show improvement over time.

14) Perform music, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

15) Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, genre, and style.

16) Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

17) Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context.

18) Demonstrate and explain how expressive qualities, including dynamics, tempo, and articulation, are used in performers' and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

19) Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context, citing evidence from the elements of music.

20) Connecting standards 1 and 2 are to be embedded while teaching the Creating, Performing, and Responding standards. See page 86.