Music Standard 1
Students will sing alone and/or with others a varies repertoire of music.
Rationale: music-making is one of our oldest , most intimate, and basic forms of communication and cultural expression. Singing and movement provide students with the means of learning musical and developmental skills. Learning to make music enables students to attain individual and group goals, acquire self-discipline, exercise divers problem solving skills, and opens avenues of success for all students. Growth in singing occurs by applying skills to increasingly challenging music literature.
Music Standard 2
Students will perform on pitched and non-pitched classroom instruments, alone and/or with others, a varied repertoire of music.
Rationale: music-making is one of our oldest , most intimate, and basic forms of communication and cultural expression. Playing an instrument provides students with the means of learning musical and developmental skills. Learning to make music enables students to attain individual and group goals, acquire self-discipline, exercise diverse problem solving skills, and opens avenues of success for all students. growth in playing music occurs by applying skills to increasingly challenging music literature.
Music Standard 3
Students will create, improvise, and/or compose music.
Rationale: Creativity is one of the most important fundamental thought processes of humankind. Through creative activities, such as composing and improvising, students will learn to explore and connect ideas with symbols, sound patterns, and musical elements.
Music Standard 4
Students will read and notate music.
Rationale: learning to read and notate music helps students comprehend and express the universal language of music. Knowledge and understanding of music notation is essential to music literacy.
Music Standard 5
Students will listen to, analyze, and describe music.
Rationale: Music is a part of daily life. Students become educated music listeners through learning to describe and analyze music as an expressive art form.
Music Standard 6
Students will evaluate music and music performances.
Rationale: Music is a part of daily life. Students become educate consumers of music by learning to critically listen to and evaluate music as an expressive art form. Critical listening and thinking skills learned through music are essential to a successful, comprehensive educational experience.
Music Standard 7
Students will understand relationships among music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.
Rationale: Music and the arts connect person and experience directly; they build a bridge between verbal and non-verbal; between the strictly logical and the emotion - the better to gain an understanding of the whole. Both approaches are powerful and both are necessary: To deny students either to disable them. the complete students is one who has both right and left brains stimulated consistently and equally.
Music Standard 8
Students will understand music in relation to history and culture.
Rationale: Music is an important element of the historical and cultural record of humankind. Students, through the study of music, will develop and understanding and appreciation of various cultures and histories.