General Music: Grade 6

Creating

Performing

Responding

Connecting

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Refine and complete artistic work

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.

Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas within a specified form (e.g. AB, ABA, rondo, theme and variations, etc).

Generate musical ideas (e.g. rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes within a specified form.

Demonstrate selected and developed ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions with (e.g. defined beginning, middle, and ending).

Use notation to document personal or collective rhythmic, melodic, and two- or three-chord harmonic musical ideas (e.g. chords).

Describe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from their teacher.

Present the final version of personally or collectively created music to others and explain their creative process.

Select music to perform using teacher-provided criteria.

Demonstrate understanding of the form in music selected for performance.

Read and perform using notation (e.g. syncopation).

Explain how interpretation is connected to expressive intent (e.g. Context)

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate personal and ensemble performance.

With an appropriate level of independence rehearse to refine technique, expression, and identified performance challenges.

Perform music with appropriate expression, technique, and interpretation.

Demonstrate performance and audience decorum appropriate for the occasion.

Compare and contrast one's listening preferences with those of others.

Demonstrate and explain how musical concepts and contexts affect responses to music.

Demonstrate and describe expressive attributes and context and how they support creators'/performers' expressive intent.

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.

Explain why particular pieces of music are important to one's family or cultural heritage.

Reflect on and discuss the roles and impact various musics plays in one's life and the lives of others.

Explain relationships between musics and other content areas (e.g. dance, visual art, dramatic arts, literature, science, math, social studies, and language arts).

Identify and describe how context (e.g. social, cultural, and historical) can inform a performance.