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.

Reading and Notating - Students will read and notate music.

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

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, in an ensemble, with an understanding of pitch, rhythm, and dynamics.

Demonstrate the ability to perform instrumental music, in an ensemble, with an understanding of pitch, rhythm, and dynamics.

Demonstrate an understanding of notation including rhythm, melody, harmony, and dynamics.

Demonstrate knowledge of music vocabulary.

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

Compare and contrast compositional devices and techniques between two musical works.

Compare stylistic characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period.

Explore the relationship between the arts and other academic disciplines.

Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of historical periods.

Distinguish characteristics of representative music genres and styles from a variety of cultures.

Examine the evolution of American musical genres.