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Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music
Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.
Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural ).
Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural ).
Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters
Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement , or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context
Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.
Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.
Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time.
Present the final version of created music for others, and explain connection to expressive intent.
Present the final version of personal created music to others, and explain connection to expressive intent.
Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill .
Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill .
Explain how context (such as social and cultural ) informs a performance.
Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm , pitch , and form ) in music selected for performance.
When analyzing selected music, read and perform using iconic and/or standard notation.
Explain how context (such as social and cultural ) informs a performance.
Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre ) .
Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre ) .
Apply teacher provided and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances
Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges.
Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre .
Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.
Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre .
Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts
Demonstrate and explain how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.
Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre .
Demonstrate and explain how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as social and cultural ).
Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre ) are used in performers and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.
a Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.
Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context.