Music: Grade 7

Perceiving/Knowing/Creating

Producing/Performing

Responding/Reflecting

Recognize, identify and demonstrate form in world music (e.g., Western and non-Western) and popular music.

Identify the style and historical period of various music examples.

Recognize and identify historical and cultural contexts (e.g., time and place of a music event) that have influenced music.

Identify key signatures of major scales.

Describe a varied repertoire of music with appropriate music vocabulary.

Identify various careers for musicians (e.g., in education, entertainment and technical support).

Independently or collaboratively, perform a varied repertoire of music, representing diverse genres and cultures and showing expression and technical accuracy at a level that includes modest ranges and changes of tempo, key and meter.

Perform accurately, independently or collaboratively, with good posture producing an appropriate tone quality.

Improvise, compose and arrange music.

Read, write and perform rhythmic (including dotted rhythms) and melodic patterns in a variety of meters.

Notate concert pitch major scales (i.e., Band C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab; Strings: A, D, G, C, F).

Read and notate melodies in treble and bass clef using key signatures.

Apply multiple criteria to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performance and composition including their own.

Compare and contrast a variety of live or recorded music performances using appropriate audience etiquette.

Develop criteria based on elements of music to support personal preferences for specific music works.

Explain how and why people use and respond to music.

Compare and contrast the meaning of common terms and processes used in various arts disciplines.