Novice Vocal and Instrumental 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 musical ideas and works, and those of peers and other artists, independently and collaboratively. 

Perform musical works from a variety of styles, cultures, and genres. 

Develop musical presentations. 

Analyze aural and written works of music from a variety of styles and genres using content-specific vocabulary.

Evaluate musical works using content-specific vocabulary. 

Explain how music expresses and reflects the values of civilizations around the world. 

Explain how concepts from other content areas can inspire the development of musical ideas. 

Name potential physical and psychological health issues that affect musicians. 

Identify musical skills, characteristics, and behaviors that contribute to post-secondary education and career readiness. 

Compare how various innovative tools and ideas have been used in a variety of musical works. 

Improvise short rhythmic phrases. 

Compose simple original rhythmic ideas using an appropriate standard notation system.

Arrange a simple musical variation on a given musical phrase.

Describe how fair use, copyright, public domain, open source, and creative commons affect the ability of musicians to create original, transcribed, and arranged music. 

Identify strategies to improve personal musical technique based on feedback. 

Reproduce appropriate musical technique with support. 

Sing or play audiated rhythms and pitches accurately. 

Sight-read musical patterns. 

Sing or play simple scales, syncopated rhythms, whole, half, dotted half, quarter, dotted quarter, eighth, and sixteenth note and rests in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 meters in unison or two-part repertoire. 

Demonstrate the meaning of music symbols, terminology, and gestures of a conductor when applicable, in the performance of tempos, forms, articulations, and dynamics found in novice repertoire.

List the processes that are a part of programming a musical performance. 

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

Identify the elements of design, production, and equipment as it pertains to developing a music performance. 

Identify form and dynamics in aural and written works of music. 

Identify the artistic choices made by peers and others. 

Compare personal responses to a variety of music. 

Evaluate musical performances, compositions, and technique using specific criteria.