Performance Standards:

Creating

• Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social). (Cr.1.3.a) 

• Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter. (Cr.1.3.b) 

• Demonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation using traditional notation. (Cr.2.3.a) 

• Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic and melodic musical ideas. (Cr.2.3.b) 

• Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal musical ideas, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback. (Cr.3.3) 

• Present the final version of personal created music to others, and describe connection to expressive intent. (Cr.4.3) 

Performing

• Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context. (Pr.1.3) 

• Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance(Pr.2.3.a) 

• When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and melodic phrases using iconic and standard notation. (Pr.2.3.b) 

• Describe how context (such as personal and social) can inform a performance. (Pr.2.3.c) 

• Demonstrate and describe how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo). (Pr.3.3) 

• Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances. (Pr.4.3.a) 

• Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges. (Pr.4.3.b) 

• Perform music with expression and technical accuracy. (Pr.5.3.a) 

• Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context and venue. (Pr.5.3.b) 

Responding

• Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes. (Re.1.3) 

• Demonstrate and describe how a response to music can be informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as personal and social). (Re.2.3) 

• Demonstrate and describe how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) are used in performers’ interpretations to reflect expressive intent. (Re.3.3) 

• Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and describe appropriateness to the context. (Re.4.3)