General Music: Grade 7

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 presentation.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Interpret meaning in artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Relate and synthesize knowledge and personal experiences to inspire and inform artistic work.

Investigate ways that artistic work is influenced by societal, cultural, and historical context and, in turn, how artistic ideas shape cultures past, present, and future.

The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.

Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

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

Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context of a performance influence the selection of repertoire.

Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.

Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.

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.

Musicians judge expression and technique in prepared performances by using criteria that vary across time, place, and culture. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.

Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.

Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.

Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.

The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

The multidimensional system of music allows us to uniquely express and reflect upon ideas, opinions, aesthetic values, and human sentience. Musicians draw upon universal themes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, and life experiences to inform their creative expressions.

Creating, performing, and analyzing music deepens our knowledge of ideas, informs our understanding of cultures, and helps us envision the future.

Generate rhythmic and melodic phrases over given or generated harmonic accompaniments within AB and ABA forms, and describe connection to purpose and context.

Organize and/or demonstrate developed musical ideas for arrangements or compositions that express unity and variety (such as in AB or ABA form) and convey expressive intent.

Use standard notation and/or audio/video recording to combine, sequence, and document musical phrases.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to music, applying criteria and feedback (related to areas such as style and form), and explain the rationale for changes.

Present the final version of their documented composition, song, or arrangement, using craftsmanship and originality to demonstrate unity and variety, and convey expressive intent.

Apply established and collaboratively developed criteria for selecting music of contrasting styles for a program (from teacher-or student-provided options) with a specific purpose and/or context and discuss expressive qualities.

Explain and demonstrate the structure of contrasting pieces of music selected for performance and how elements of music are used.

When analyzing selected music, use grade-level standard notation to read and identify musical symbols and functions, as appropriate to the musical tradition.

Explain how social, cultural and historical contexts inform performances and result in different musical choices.

Demonstrate contrasting pieces of music that show elements of music and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, articulation/style, and phrasing) that convey intent and are appropriate to the context.

Discuss and apply established and collaboratively developed criteria and feedback to evaluate the accuracy and expressiveness of performances.

Identify and apply appropriate rehearsal strategies and show readiness to present.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Perform music with stylistic expression, technical accuracy, interpretation, and/or culturally authentic practices.

Perform appropriately for the audience, venue, context, genre, and style, demonstrating performance decorum.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

Select and compare how contrasting musical works (from teacher-or student-provided options) connect to and are influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Compare how the elements of music and expressive qualities relate to the structure of contrasting pieces.

Identify and compare the context of music from a variety of genres, cultures, and historical periods.

Describe a personal interpretation of contrasting works and explain how creators and performers' application of the elements of music and expressive qualities, within genres, cultures, and historical periods, conveys expressive intent.

Apply established and collaboratively developed criteria to evaluate musical works and performances, citing evidence, explaining appropriateness to the context.

Design, implement, and reflect on a strategy for expanding one's knowledge of unfamiliar music

Relate music to personal accomplishments and experiences.

Express and/or share an original musical idea or emotion by using technological resources.

Describe how sound is created on a variety of instruments and other sound sources.

Perform folk music from a variety of cultures, including some in foreign languages, and explain the music's role(s) and meaning in its culture of origin.

Identify the cultural, social, and political uses for music.

Explore the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue a musical role in the community.