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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. Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, form, and harmony) in music selected for performance. b. When analyzing selected music, read and perform using standard notation. c. Explain how context (such as personal, social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.

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):
Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, and articulation/ style).

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

Enduring Understanding: 7.2 Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
Essential Question(s): How do individuals choose music to experience?
Process Component(s): Analyze

Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as personal, social, cultural, and historical).

Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question(s): How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Process Component(s): Interpret

Performance Standard(s):
Demonstrate and explain how expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, and articulation) are used in performers’ personal interpretations to reflect creators’ expressive intent.

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):
Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

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):
Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for melodies created over specified chord progressions or AB / ABA forms and two-to three-chord accompaniments for given melodies.

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):
Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, and chordal accompaniments is selected, based on personal interest, music reading skills, and technical skill, as well as the context of the performances.

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):
Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, and chordal accompaniments is selected, based on personal interest, music reading skills, technical skills and related challenges, and the context of the performances.

Enduring Understanding: Theatre artists rely on intuition, curiosity, culture, and critical inquiry.
Essential Question(s): What happens when theatre artists use their culture, imaginations and/or learned theatre skills while engaging in creative exploration and inquiry?
Process Component(s): Envision,Conceptualize

Performance Standard(s):
a. Identify physical qualities that might reveal a character’s inner traits in the imagined world of a drama/theatre work.b. Imagine how a character’s inner thoughts impact the story and given circumstances in a drama/ theatre work.c. Propose design ideas that support the story and given circumstances in a drama/theatre work.