Performance Standards:

Creating

• • Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural). (Cr.1.4.a)

  • Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters. (Cr.1.4.b)

  • Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation, arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context. (Cr.2.4.a)

  • Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas. (Cr.2.4.b)

  • Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show improvement over time. (Cr.3.4)

  • Present the final version of personal created music to others, and explain connection to expressive intent. (Cr.4.4)

Performing

• • Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill. (Pr.1.4)

  • Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance. (Pr.2.4.a)

  • When analyzing selected music, read and perform using iconic and/or standard notation. (Pr.2.4.b)

  • Explain how context (such as social and cultural) informs a performance. (Pr.2.4.c)

  • Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre). (Pr.3.4)

  • Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances. (Pr.4.4.a)

  • Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities, and address performance challenges. (Pr.4.4.b)

  • Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation. (Pr.5.4.a)

  • Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context, venue, and genre. (Pr.5.4.b)

Responding