Below are suggested activities that are related to Music Core Standards - Performing and Responding (Creating is coming). Please note this is NOT a curriculum. Feel free to modify the materials to meet your needs.
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Music Core Standards to provide students opportunities to achieve musical proficiency in Four Artistic Processes: Creating, Performing, Responding, and Connecting.
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Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Performing.
Pr4.2: A. Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.
- GrK: Explore and demonstrate awareness of music contrasts in a variety of music.
- Gr1: Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts from a variety of cultures.
- Gr2: Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts from a variety of cultures.
- Gr3: Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music.
- Gr4: Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music.
Pr4.3: Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
- GrK: Demonstrate awareness of expressive qualities that support creators' expressive intent.
- Gr1: Demonstrate and describe music's expressive qualities.
- Gr2: Demonstrate understanding of expressive qualities and how creators use them to convey expressive intent.
- Gr3: Demonstrate and describe how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities.
- Gr4: Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities.
Pr5.1: Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
- GrK: With guidance, apply teacher and peer feedback to refine performances.
- Gr1: With limited guidance, apply personal, teacher, and peer feedback to refine performances.
- Gr2:. Apply established criteria to judge the accuracy, expressiveness, and effectiveness of performances.
- Gr3: Apply teacher‐provided and collaboratively‐developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances.
- Gr4: Apply teacher‐provided and collaboratively‐developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.
Pr6.1: Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
- GrK: Perform music with expression.
- Gr1: Perform music for a specific purpose with expression.
- Gr2: Perform music for a specific purpose with expression and technical accuracy.
- Gr3: Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.
- Gr4: Perform music, alone or with others, with expression and technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.
Demonstrate skills and competency levels in Responding.
Re7.1: Enduring Understanding: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
- GrK: List, with guidance, personal interests and experiences that influence musical listening preferences.
- Gr1: Identify/relate, with limited guidance, the influence of personal interests and experiences on musical listening preferences.
- Gr2: Independently explain/interpret the influence of personal interests and experiences on musical listening preferences.
- Gr3: Select music for listening and show connections to personal interests and/or personal experiences.
- Gr4: Analyze music for listening which connects to personal interests, experiences, specific purposes, or contexts.
Re8.1: Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
- GrK: A. Explore dynamics and tempo that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent in a selected musical work.
- Gr1: Identify dynamics and tempo that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent in a selected musical work.
- Gr2: Explain the manner in which dynamics and tempo support the creators’/performers’ expressive intent.
- Gr3: Describe the use of dynamics, tempo, timbre, and texture in the creators' compositions/performers’ interpretations to reflect expressive intent.
- Gr4: Interpret the use of dynamics, tempo, timbre, and texture in the creators' composition/performers’ interpretations to reflect expressive intent.
Re9.1: Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established.
- GrK: With guidance, explore and list personal and expressive preferences of music.
- Gr1: With limited guidance, share/relate personal and expressive preferences for specific purposes.
- Gr2: Discuss/Interpret personal and expressive preferences in the evaluation of music for specific purposes using applicable musical terms.
- Gr3: Critique musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and describe appropriateness to the context.
- Gr4: A. Analyze and evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context using applicable musical terms.