General Music: Grade Pre-K

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.

With substantial guidance, explore and experience a variety of music.

With substantial guidance, explore favorite musical ideas (such as movements, vocalizations, or instrumental accompaniments).

With substantial guidance, select and keep track of the order for performing original musical ideas, using iconic notation and/or recording technology.

With substantial guidance, consider personal, peer, and teacher feedback when demonstrating and refining musical ideas.

With substantial guidance, share revised musical ideas with peers.

With substantial guidance, demonstrate and state preference for varied musical selections provided by the teacher.

With substantial guidance, explore and demonstrate awareness of musical contrasts.

With substantial guidance, explore music's expressive qualities (such as voice quality, dynamics, and tempo).

With substantial guidance, practice and demonstrate what they like about their own performances.

With substantial guidance, apply personal, peer, and teacher feedback to refine performances.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

With substantial guidance, perform music with expression.

Respond appropriately to aural and visual cues.

With substantial guidance, state personal interests and demonstrate why they prefer some teacher-provided music selections over others.

With substantial guidance, explore musical contrasts in music.

With substantial guidance, explore music's expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

With substantial guidance, talk about personal and expressive preferences in music.

Explore and imitate sounds found in the for environment.

Imagine and describe places, times, and reasons for making and listening to music.

Illustrate musical ideas through movements (such as dramatizations of books or stories).

Manipulate music concepts (such as tempo and dynamics) in order to express ideas.

Perform/Explore folk music from a variety of cultures.

With substantial guidance, explore personal preferences for varied musical styles and repertoire.