Music: Grade 8

Perceiving/Knowing/Creating

Producing/Performing

Responding/Reflecting

Examine contemporary music styles and describe the distinctive characteristics in a repertoire of exemplary works.

Discuss how current developments in music reflect society in reference to the local community and larger world.

Identify intervals and concert pitches in major and natural minor scales.

Identify components of larger music works (e.g., symphony, mass, concerto).

Identify and describe non-performing careers in music.

Describe ways that technology and the media arts are used to create perform and listen to music.

Perform a varied repertoire of music, independently or collaboratively representing diverse genres and cultures and showing expression and technical accuracy at a level that includes more advanced ranges and changes of tempo, key and meter.

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

Improvise, compose and arrange music.

Demonstrate the common beat patterns used by conductors.

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

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

Demonstrate and use technology and media arts to create, perform and research music.

Apply multiple criteria to evaluate quality and effectiveness of personal and selected music performances and compositions and identify areas for improvement.

Compare and contrast a varied repertoire of music on the basis of how elements of music are used to create meaning and expression.

Compare and contrast selected composers and their works.

Express how music performance and settings affect audience response.

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

Compare common terms and contrasting definitions used for various artistic elements used in music and other art forms.

Describe how roles of composers, performers and others involved in music are similar to or different from those in other art forms.