6th Grade Music

Three Village District Essentials

Creating

  • Generate rhythmic and melodic ideas over given harmonic accompaniments and describe connection to purpose and context

  • Organize and demonstrate developed musical ideas, arrangements, or compositions

  • Use standard notation and/or audio/video recording to combine, sequence, and document musical ideas

  • Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to music, applying criteria and feedback and explain the rationale for changes

Performing

  • Explain and demonstrate how the structure and the elements of music are used

  • Use grade level standard notation to read and identify musical symbols and functions

  • Demonstrate a selected piece of music that shows how their interpretations of the elements of music and the expressive qualities convey intent

  • Discuss and apply established or collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of performance

  • Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues

  • Perform music with stylistic expression, technical accuracy, and interpretation

  • Perform appropriately for the audience, venue, context, genre, and style

Responding

  • Elect and explain how contrasting musical works connect to and are influenced by specific interests

  • Describe how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of pieces

  • Identify the context from music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods

  • Apply established criteria to evaluate musical works and performances, citing evidence explaining appropriateness to the context

Connecting

  • Create musical ostinati and/or motifs to accompany or portray events, a story to illustrate an abstract idea

  • Relate music to personal accomplishments and experiences

  • Express and/or share a musical idea or emotion by using technological resources

  • Identify how sound is created on a variety of instruments and other sound sources