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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):
Develop and apply criteria for selecting a varied repertoire for a program of music for individual and small group performances that include melodies, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan & Make

Performance Standard(s):
Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of improvisations, compositions, and three-or more- chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan & Make

Performance Standard(s):
Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of compositions, improvisations, and accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan & Make

Performance Standard(s):
Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of compositions representing a variety of forms and styles, improvisations in several different styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies.

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):
Develop strategies to address expressive challenges in a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate their success using feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.

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):
Develop and apply appropriate rehearsal strategies to address individual and ensemble challenges in a varied repertoire of music, and evaluate their success.

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):
Develop, apply, and refine appropriate rehearsal strategies to address individual and ensemble challenges in a varied repertoire of music.

Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan and Make

Performance Standard(s):
a. Assemble and organize sounds or short musical ideas to create initial expressions of selected experiences, moods, images, or storylines. b. Identify and describe the development of sounds or short musical ideas in drafts of music within simple forms (such as one part, cyclical, or binary).

Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan and Make

Performance Standard(s):
a. Assemble and organize multiple sounds or musical ideas to create initial expressive statements of selected sonic events, memories, images, concepts, texts, or storylines. b. Describe and explain the development of sounds and musical ideas in drafts of music within a variety of simple or moderately complex forms (such as binary, rondo, or ternary).

Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do musicians make creative decisions?
Process Component(s): Plan and Make

Performance Standard(s):
a. Assemble and organize multiple sounds or extended musical ideas to create initial expressive statements of selected extended sonic experiences or abstract ideas. b. Analyze and demonstrate the development of sounds and extended musical ideas in drafts of music within a variety of moderately complex or complex forms.