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Performing
Students will perform as an individual and/or contribute as a member of an ensemble, and understand the various musical and non-musical components that
lead to excellence.
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Student can explain and demonstrate appropriate posture, hand position, and breath support
Student can perform with expression and articulation markings including staccato, legato, marcato, and tenuto
Student can start a note with proper articulation (“too” or “tah”)
Student can play their instrument with proper embouchure
Student can play with good tone on their instrument
Student can perform Concert F, Bb, Eb , Ab Major scales up and down
Student can sing a scale with hand signals up and down
Student can perform dynamics: pianissimo – fortissimo, crescendo, and decrescendo
Music Literacy: Knowledge and Skills
Students will demonstrate music literacy by reading and notating music and its symbol.
Student can identify the 8 notes and intervals of the scale
Student can identify the parts of the staff, including: lines, spaces, clef, bar line, double bar line, and measure.
Student can identify and define: dynamics, pianissimo – fortissimo, crescendo, and decrescendo
Student can identify and define: slur, tie, fermata, caesura, accent, staccato, legato, coda, da capo, dal segno, repeat, and
time signature
Student can use standard notation to record musical ideas
Student can identify key signatures in both sharps and flats
Student can identify and recreate the circle of 5ths and determine the order of sharps and flats
Student can identify intervals by sight
Student can aurally distinguish between major and minor scales
Creating
Students will compose and arrange music.
Student can create variations on simple melodies
Student can use traditional musical notation to express their own ideas
Student can improvise simple melodies using a pentatonic scale
Responding
Students will analyze, describe, and evaluate music and/or performances.
Student can evaluate the quality and effectiveness of their own ideas and others’ performances
Student can analyze music by identifying musical elements and describing musical events
Student can identify common musical forms including: ABA, March, Theme and variation