Music: Grades 6, 7, 8

Singing - Student 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.

Evaluating - 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 the ability to sing alone selected musical examples.

Demonstrate the ability to sing in an ensemble selected musical examples.

Demonstrate the ability to perform appropriate instrumental musical examples alone.

Demonstrate the ability to perform an appropriate instrumental part in an ensemble.

Improvise a melody.

Improvise a variation.

Improvise an accompaniment.

Compose simple pieces of music.

Create simple arrangements.

Demonstrate skills in interpreting notated musical examples that include rhythm, melody, and symbols of musical expression.

Demonstrate skills in notating musical examples using standard notation that include rhythm, melody and symbols of musical expression.

Listen to a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures.

Describe listening examples using music vocabulary.

Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music compositions.

Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of music performances.

Explore the relationship between music and other art disciplines.

Explain the relationship between music and another academic discipline (i.e., science, language, math, history).

Explore the use of technology in today's music.

Explore the characteristics of music genres and styles within their historical and cultural settings.

Examine the evolution of American music genres and cite well-known musicians associated with each.

Examine the role of music in world cultures.