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Enduring Understanding: 7.1 Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the music and the specified purpose and context.

Enduring Understanding: 7.1 Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
Use research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
Connect and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and skills relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
Synthesize personal interests, knowledge, skills, and contexts and how they relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Process Component(s): Synthesize

Performance Standard(s):
Integrate and interrelate how personal interests, knowledge, skills, contexts, and audience expectations connect to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Process Component(s): Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine

Performance Standard(s):
a. Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying repetition and variation within the form. b. Using established criteria and feedback, identify the way(s) in which performances convey the elements of music, style, and mood. c. Identify and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of multiple works.

Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Process Component(s): Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine

Performance Standard(s):
a. Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying the form, repetition and variation within the form, and the style and historical or cultural context of the work. b. Using established criteria and feedback, identify the ways in which performances convey the formal design, style, and historical/cultural context of the works. c. Identify and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of varied works.

Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Process Component(s): Rehearse, Evaluate, and Refine

Performance Standard(s):
a. Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying the form, repetition and variation within the form, compositional techniques, and the style and historical or cultural context of the work. b. Using established criteria and feedback, identify the ways in which performances use compositional techniques and convey the formal design, style, and historical/cultural context of the works. c. Identify, compare, and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of multiple contrasting works.

Enduring Understanding: 7.1 Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
Apply teacher-provided criteria to select music that expresses a personal experience, mood, visual image, or storyline in simple forms (such as one-part, cyclical, binary), and describe the choices as models for composition.

Enduring Understanding: 7.1 Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Select

Performance Standard(s):
Apply teacher-provided or personally-developed criteria to select music that expresses personal experiences and interests, moods, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in simple or moderately complex forms, and describe and defend the choices as models for composition.