Music: Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Singing - Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Playing Instruments - Students will perform on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

Improvising - Students will improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

Composing - Students will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

Listening and Analyzing - Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.

Evaluation - Students will evaluate music and music performances.

Interdisciplinary Connections - Students will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Historical and Cultural Relationships - Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.

Demonstrate, in unison, selected musical examples, rhythm patterns, and pitches.

Sing harmonies up to four parts with good tone and intonation.

Demonstrate proper instrument care and maintenance.

Produce a characteristic quality of sound performing a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate and apply correct technique on one's instrument performing a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate and apply correct pitch, intonation, and rhythm performing a varied repertoire of music.

Produce musicality through style, dynamic control, tempo variation, and phrasing while performing a varied repertoire of music.

Execute, correctly, the technical and musical aspects of sight-reading.

Perform scales on one's instrument.

Improvise a rhythm or melody over a given chord progression.

Experiment with variations on a given melody.

Experiment with rhythmic or chordal accompaniments for a melody.

Compose a musical work with teacher-generated rhythmic, harmonic, melodic, and expressive parameters.

Create a music arrangement for a specified medium.

Analyze and execute knowledge of musical notation.

Implement correct notation in various applications.

Analyze and describe teacher-selected listening examples using correct music vocabulary.

Analyze and describe teacher-selected listening examples demonstrating knowledge of compositional devices and techniques, which make it unique, interesting, and expressive.

Use selected criteria to evaluate the intent and quality of a composition.

Use selected criteria to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of a live or recorded musical performance.

Use selected criteria to evaluate one's own performance.

Illustrate how elements of music (e.g., color, balance, rhythm, texture) are used in similar and distinctive ways in other arts disciplines.

Compare ways in which other academic disciplines, including technology, are interrelated with music.

Compare and contrast various historical backgrounds and related music genres.

Compare and contrast various music genres and their relationship to or influence on culture(s).