General Music: Grade 8

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 expanded forms (e.g. introductions, transitions, codas, etc.).

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

Demonstrate and document selected and developed ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions (e.g. unity, variety, balance, tension, and release).

Use notation to document personal or collective rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and harmonic sequences.

Describe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from others (teacher and peers).

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

Select music to perform using personally-developed criteria and explain reasons for choices.

Compare and contrast the form in music selected for performance.

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

Explain how interpretation is connected to expressive intent in various musics.

Apply personally and/or 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.

Classify and explain, citing evidence, how musical concepts, design, and contexts affect responses to music.

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

Apply personally and/or collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.

Explain how music helps to create a sense of identity, community, and solidarity.

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

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

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