Beginning General Music

CONNECT: Explore and relate artistic ideas and works to past, present, and future societies and cultures.

CREATE: Create and adapt new artistic ideas and work individually or collaboratively.

PRESENT: Present, perform, produce, and develop artistic ideas and works.

RESPOND: Analyze and evaluate how the arts communicate.

Relate musical ideas and works with personal, societal, cultural, historical, and daily life contexts, including diverse and marginalized groups.

Explore advancements in the field of music.

Create original musical ideas and works, independently and collaboratively.

Adapt original musical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively.

Perform music from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres.

Develop musical presentations.

Analyze musical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres including response through moving, singing, playing instruments, or content-specific vocabulary.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary.

Describe how the emergence of music as an art form has influenced society.

Identify how the creation and performance of music is supported by concepts from other content areas.

Explain how music evokes sensory, emotional, personal, and intellectual responses in everyday life.

Describe how various individuals contribute to the creation, production, design, and marketing of music.

Describe how various tools and innovations influence the development and consumption of music.

Improvise melodies based on a diatonic scale.

Compose original rhythmic ideas and melodic ideas that incorporate notation for rhythms or pitches that are appropriate to the proficiency level.

Arrange an existing musical work, changing three or more musical elements.

Compare artistic adaptation, appropriation, fair use, copyright, public domain, open source, and creative commons in music.

Apply feedback from instructors, peers, and self to refine musical technique, presentations, compositions, or ideas.

Read standard notation to perform music in treble or bass clef with whole, half, dotted half, quarter, dotted quarter, eighths, sixteenths, equivalent rests, and basic syncopation and tied rhythms in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8 meters.

Perform or produce rounds, canons, and partner songs in unison and simple harmony.

Demonstrate the meaning of symbols and terminology for a variety of tempos, dynamics, articulations, phrasing, and forms with appropriate technique when performing or producing music.

Compare music and production elements and how they enhance a musical presentation.

Define active listening and etiquette appropriate for both formal and informal performances.

Identify symbols and terminology for a variety of tempos, dynamics, articulations, phrasing, and forms in aural and written musical works.

Infer possible artistic intentions of the composer, producer, creator, or performer in a variety of musical works.

Describe the timbres of a variety of instruments and voices, including a range of traditional, contemporary, and world music.

Explain how personal preferences can influence evaluation of musical works.

Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of personal musical efforts, using specific criteria.