Essential Learner Outcomes
MU.8.1 - Select, organize, and document personal musical ideas for arrangements, songs, and compositions within expanded forms that demonstrate tension and release, unity, and variety, balance, and convey expressive intent.
MU.8.2 - Present the final version of their documented personal composition, song, or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate the application of compositional techniques for creating unity and variety, tension and release, and balance to convey expressive intent.
MU.8.3 - Identify how cultural and historical context inform performances and result in different musical effects.
MU.8.4 - Identify and apply personally-developed criteria (such as demonstrating correct interpretation of notation, technical skill of performer, originality, emotional impact, variety, and interest) to rehearse, refine, and determine when the music is ready to perform.
MU.8.5 - Compare how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure within programs of music.
