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Standard Identifier: 6.MU:Pr4.1

Grade: 6
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

Enduring Understanding: 4.1 Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
Essential Question(s): How do performers select repertoire?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
Apply teacher provided criteria for selecting music to perform for a specific purpose and/or context and explain why each was chosen.

Standard Identifier: 6.MU:Cr1

Grade: 6
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Process Component(s): Imagine

Performance Standard(s):
a. Generate simple rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases within AB and ABA forms that convey expressive intent.

Standard Identifier: 7.MU:Cr1

Grade: 7
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Creating
Anchor Standard: 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Process Component(s): Imagine

Performance Standard(s):
a. Generate rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases and variations over harmonic accompaniments within AB, ABA, or theme and variation forms that convey expressive intent.

Standard Identifier: 7.MU:Pr4.1

Grade: 7
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

Enduring Understanding: 4.1 Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
Essential Question(s): How do performers select repertoire?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
Apply collaboratively developed criteria for selecting music of contrasting styles for a program with a specific purpose and/or context and, after discussion, identify expressive qualities, technical challenges, and reasons for choices.

Standard Identifier: 7.MU:Pr4.2

Grade: 7
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

Enduring Understanding: 4.2 Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
Essential Question(s): How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?
Process Component(s): Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
a. Explain and demonstrate the structure of contrasting pieces of music selected for performance and how elements of music are used. b. When analyzing selected music, read and identify by name or function standard symbols for rhythm, pitch articulation, dynamics, tempo, and form. c. Identify how personal, social, cultural and historical context inform performances and result in different musical effects.

Standard Identifier: 7.MU:Pr4.3

Grade: 7
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 4. Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation

Enduring Understanding: 4.3 Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do performers interpret musical works?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Perform contrasting pieces of music demonstrating interpretations of the elements of music and expressive qualities (such as articulation/style, and phrasing) convey intent.

Standard Identifier: 7.MU:Pr6

Grade: 7
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
Essential Question(s): When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. Perform the music, alone or with others with technical accuracy and stylistic expression to convey the creator’s intent. b. Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for venue, purpose, and context.

Standard Identifier: 7.MU:Re9

Grade: 7
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Apply collaboratively developed criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.

Standard Identifier: 8.MU:Re9

Grade: 8
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Responding
Anchor Standard: 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Process Component(s): Evaluate

Performance Standard(s):
Apply appropriate personally developed criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.

Standard Identifier: 8.MU:Pr6

Grade: 8
Discipline: Music
Subdiscipline: TK-8
Artistic Process: Performing
Anchor Standard: 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
Essential Question(s): When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
Process Component(s): Present

Performance Standard(s):
a. Perform the music, alone or with others with technical accuracy, stylistic expression, and culturally authentic practices in music to convey the creator’s intent. b. Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for venue, purpose, context, and style.

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