Music Theory/Literacy
Developing Music Literacy
1. The student will identify, define, and use basic standard notation for pitch, rhythm, meter, dynamics, and other elements of music found in choral scores.
2. The student will echo, read, and notate rhythmic patterns that include whole notes, dotted half notes, half notes, dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and corresponding rests.
3. The student will identify, read, and perform music in simple meters
4. The student will visually differentiate call-and-response songs, canons, and partner songs.
5. The student will use contemporary media and technology in the study and creation of music.
Sight-Reading Music
6. The student will sight-sing using solfege.
7. The student will sight-sing excerpts.
Developing Aural Skills
8. The student will aurally identify diatonic intervals (M2, M3, P4, P5, and octave).
9. The student will aurally distinguish major and minor tonalities.
10. The student will aurally identify similar and contrasting musical phrases and sections.
11. The student will aurally differentiate melodic and harmonic patterns.
12. The student will aurally differentiate call-and-response songs, canons, and partner songs.
13. The student will use contemporary media to develop aural skills.
Performance
Demonstrating Vocal Techniques and Choral Skills
14. The student will use proper posture for singing.
15. The student will use proper breathing techniques for singing.
16. The student will sing with a free and clear tone.
17. The student will sing with accurate intonation.
18. The student will use proper diction (i.e., pure vowel sounds, diphthongs, and consonants with emphasis on beginning and ending consonants).
19. The student will identify vocal anatomy, including the functions of the diaphragm and soft palate in singing.
20. The student will develop vocal independence, agility, and range by singing developmentally appropriate vocal exercises.
21. The student will blend with other singers on the same vocal part.
22. The student will sing an assigned vocal part in a small group.
23. The student will sing music literature from memory and from score.
Demonstrating Musicianship and Personal Responsibility
24. The student will interpret tempo markings (allegro, andante, adagio).
25. The student will perform, from musical scores and rhythmic exercises, rhythmic patterns that include whole notes, dotted half notes, half notes, dotted quarter notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and corresponding rests.
26. The student will interpret dynamic markings (p, mp, mf, f, crescendo, decrescendo).
27. The student will demonstrate expressive phrasing techniques.
28. The student will respond to basic conducting patterns and interpretive gestures.
29. The student will use facial and physical expressions that reflect the mood and style of the music.
30. The student will cooperate and collaborate as a singer during rehearsal.
31. The student will participate in a variety of choral performances.
32. The student will participate in curricular and co-curricular events (e.g., concerts, other performances)
Responding to Music with Movement
33. The student will perform nonchoreographed and choreographed movements.
Music History and Cultural Context
Understanding Historical and Cultural Influences
34. The student will identify the cultures, musical styles, composers, and historical periods associated with the music literature being studied.
35. The student will identify ways in which culture and technology influence choral music and vocal music styles.
Making Connections
36. The student will identify the relationship of choral music to the other fine arts and other fields of knowledge.
37. The student will examine career options in music.
38. The student will identify ethical standards as applied to the use of social media and copyrighted materials.
39. The student will demonstrate concert etiquette as an active listener.
Analysis, Evaluation, and Critique
40. The student will describe works of music, using inquiry skills and music terminology.
41. The student will examine accepted criteria used for evaluating works of music.
42. The student will describe performances of music, using music terminology.
43. The student will examine accepted criteria (teacher-developed rubrics) used for critiquing vocal performances.
Aesthetics
44. The student will propose a definition of music and support that definition.
45. The student will describe aesthetic criteria used for determining the quality of a work of music.
46. The student will identify reasons for preferences among works of music, using music terminology.
47. The student will identify ways in which music evokes sensory, emotional, and intellectual responses, including ways in which music can be persuasive.