Music
What is disciplinary literacy in music?
What is disciplinary literacy in music?
Developing music literacy means:
- discovering the expressive elements of music,
- understanding the basic concepts of music,
- knowing the terminology that is used to comprehend music,
- developing the skills necessary to produce music, and
- being able to reflect, critique, and connect personal experience to music.
Adapted from California Department of Education (2019). The California Arts Standards for Music, page 1.
Music texts that students create, read, listen to, or view include but are not limited to:
Music texts that students create, read, listen to, or view include but are not limited to:
Musical performance (live or archived), music notation, scores, performance or album reviews, artistic statements, interviews, biographies, and informational text about the aesthetics and historical or cultural context of music.
Learning-in-Action Snapshot
Learning-in-Action Snapshot
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