Music Frameworks
These are the Massachusetts State Standards for all students K-12
1. Singing. Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.
2. Reading and Notation. Students will read music written in standard notation.
3. Playing Instruments. Students will play instruments, alone and with others, to perform a varied
repertoire of music.
4. Improvisation and Composition. Students will improvise, compose, and arrange music.
5. Critical Response. Students will describe and analyze their own music and the music of others using
appropriate music vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to
interpretation and evaluation.
6. Purposes and Meanings in the Arts. Students will describe the purposes for which works of dance,
music, theatre, visual arts, and architecture were and are created, and, when appropriate, interpret
their meanings.
7. Roles of Artists in Communities. Students will describe the roles of artists, patrons, cultural
organizations, and arts institutions in societies of the past and present.
8. Concepts of Style, Stylistic Influence, and Stylistic Change. Students will demonstrate their
understanding of styles, stylistic influence, and stylistic change by identifying when and where art
works were created, and by analyzing characteristic features of art works from various historical
periods, cultures, and genres.
9. Inventions, Technologies, and the Arts. Students will describe and analyze how performing and
visual artists use and have used materials, inventions, and technologies in their work.
10. Interdisciplinary Connections. Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the study of
English language arts, foreign languages, health, history and social science, mathematics, and science
and technology/engineering.