Standard set
Music: Grade 6
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Creating
Performing
Responding
Connecting
6.MU:Cr1
Generate and Conceptualize Artistic Ideas and Work
6.MU:Cr2
Organize and Develop Artistic Ideas and Work
6.MU:Cr3
Refine and Complete Artistic Work
6.MU:Pr4
Select, Analyze, and Interpret Artistic Work for Presentation
6.MU:Pr5
Develop and Refine Artistic Techniques and Work for Presentation
6.MU:Pr6
Convey Meaning Through the Presentation of Artistic Work
6.MU:Pr7
Perceive and Analyze Artistic Work
6.MU:Pr8
Interpret Intent and Meaning in Artistic Work
6.MU:Pr9
Apply Criteria to Evaluate Artistic Work
6.MU:Pr10
Synthesize and Relate Knowledge and Personal Experiences to Make Art
6.MU:Pr11
Relate Artistic Ideas and Works with Societal, Cultural, and Historical Context to Deepen Understanding
6.MU:Cr1.1
The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
6.MU:Cr2.1
Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
6.MU:Cr3.1
Musicians evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
6.MU:Pr4.1
Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
6.MU:Pr4.2
Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
6.MU:Pr4.3
Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
6.MU:Pr5.1
To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
6.MU:Pr6.1
Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence audience response.
6.MU:Pr7.1
Individuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
6.MU:Pr7.2
Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
6.MU:Pr8.1
Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
6.MU:Pr9.1
The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
6.MU:Pr10.1
Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
6.MU:Pr11.1
Musicians connect societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
6.MU:Cr1.1.a
Generate simple rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic phrases within AB and ABA forms that convey expressive intent.
6.MU:Cr2.1.a
Select, organize, construct, and document personal musical ideas for arrangements and compositions within AB or ABA form that demonstrate an effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent.
6.MU:Cr2.1.b
Use standard and/or iconic notation and/ or audio/video recording to document personal simple rhythmic phrases, melodic phrases, and two-chord harmonic musical ideas.
6.MU:Cr3.1.a
Evaluate personal work, applying teacher-provided criteria, such as application of selected elements of music and use of sound sources.
6.MU:Cr3.1.b
Describe the rationale for making revisions to the music based on evaluation criteria and feedback from their teacher.
6.MU:Cr3.2.a
Present the final version of documented personal composition or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate an effective beginning, middle, and ending, and convey expressive intent.
6.MU:Pr4.1.a
Apply teacher-provided criteria for selecting music to perform for a specific purpose and/or context and explain why each was chosen.
6.MU:Pr4.2.a
Explain how understanding the structure and the elements of music are used in music selected for performance.
6.MU:Pr4.2.b
When analyzing selected music, read and identify by name or function standard symbols for rhythm, pitch, articulation, and dynamics.
6.MU:Pr4.2.c
Identify how personal, social, cultural, and historical context inform performances.
6.MU:Pr4.3.a
Perform a selected piece of music demonstrating how interpretations of the elements of music and the expressive qualities (such as articulation/style and phrasing) convey intent.
6.MU:Pr5.1.a
Identify and apply teacher-provided criteria (such as correct interpretation of notation, technical accuracy, originality, and interest) to rehearse, refine, and determine when a piece is ready to perform.
6.MU:Pr6.1.a
Perform the music, alone or with others, with technical accuracy to convey the creator’s intent.
6.MU:Pr6.1.b
Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for venue and purpose.
6.MU:Pr7.1.a
Select music to listen to and explain the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose.
6.MU:Pr7.2.a
Describe how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of the pieces.
6.MU:Pr7.2.b
Identify the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.
6.MU:Pr8.1.a
Describe a personal interpretation of how creators’ and performers’ application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres and cultural and historical context, convey expressive intent.
6.MU:Pr9.1.a
Select from teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works or performances.
6.MU:Pr10.1.a
Explain and demonstrate how personal interests, knowledge, and ideas relate to choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.
6.MU:Pr11.1.a
Explain and demonstrate connections between music and societal, cultural, and historical contexts when creating, performing, and responding.
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