Music: Grade 6

Perceiving/Knowing/Creating

Producing/Performing

Responding/Reflecting

Describe distinguishing characteristics of music forms (e.g., verse-refrain, AB, ABA, rondo, canon, theme and variation) from various cultures and historical periods.

Identify instruments used in Western and world music ensembles.

Identify different functions and uses of music in American and other cultures.

Identify the major periods, genres and composers in the development of Western and non-Western music.

Distinguish between and among the use of dynamics, meter, tempo and tonality in various pieces through active listening.

Describe roles and skills musicians assume in various cultures and settings.

Independently or collaboratively, perform with good posture and breath control a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures with appropriate dynamics and tempo.

Play a variety of classroom instruments, independently or collaboratively, with increasingly complex rhythms and melodic phrases.

Improvise, compose and arrange music.

Respond appropriately to the cues of a conductor.

Read, write, perform and compose rhythm patterns and simple melodies in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 6/8 meter.

Attend live performances and demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette.

Develop criteria to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances and compositions including their own.

Reflect on a variety of live or recorded music performances.

Communicate the importance of music in everyday life.

Describe ways that music relates to other art forms using appropriate terminology.

Compare and contrast subject matter common to music and other subject areas.

Explain and apply skills developed in music (e.g., critical thinking, collaboration) to other disciplines.