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Grade 12 Music Standards

Standard (Curriculum)

Instruction and Assessment

Standard 1. The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills

1.1.1 Understands arts concepts and vocabulary: Elements (pitch, rhythm, expression, dynamics, style, tempo, phrasing and timbre)
* Demonstrates comprehension of simple/compound meter (rhythm)
* Identifies and performs syncopated rhythms (rhythm)
1.1.2 Understands arts concepts and vocabulary: Principles of Organization (notation, form, melody, and harmony)
* Recognizes and interprets key signatures (notation)
* Explains the circle of fifths (notation)
* Visually and aurally recognizes and explains advanced musical forms (e.g., sonata-allegro, fugue) (form)
* Analyzes and describes textures within a musical composition (harmony)
* Visually and aurally indentifies intervals and chords (e.g., major, minor, perfect) (harmony)

1.2 Develops arts skills and techniques
* Refines tonal production to create a mature, characteristic sound
* Independently analyzes and interprets music rehearsed and performed (e.g., stylistically and expressively)
* Exhibits achievement in area of choice (e.g., recital, composition, conducting, research, technology)
* Demonstrates informed, independent musical decision-making

1.3 Understands and applies arts styles from various artists, cultures, and times
* Applies knowledge of artistic styles and cultural traditions to make informed choices for an arts presentation

1.4 Applies audience skills in a variety of arts settings and performances
* Analyzes how style, culture, and history have influenced audience conventions

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Standard 2. The student demonstrates thinking skills using artistic processes

2.1 Applies a creative process in the arts
* Conceptualizes that context or purpose
* Gathers information from diverse sources
* Develops ideas and techniques
* Organizes arts elements, forms, and/or principles into a creative work
* Reflects for the purpose of elaboration and self-evaluation
* Refines work based on feedback
* Presents work to others
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a creative process

2.2 Applies a performance process in the arts
* Identifies audience and purpose
* Selects artistic work (repertoire) to perform
* Analyzes the structure and background or work
* Interpret by developing a personal approach to work
* Rehearse, adjust and refine through evaluation and problem-solving
* Present work for others; reflects, and evaluates
* Applies arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process

2.3 Applies a responding process to an arts presentation
* Engages actively and purposefully
* Describes what is seen and heard
* Analyzes how the elements are arranged and organized
* Interprets based on descriptive properties
* Evaluates using supportive evidence and criteria
* Applies previously learned arts concepts, vocabulary, skills, and techniques through a performance process

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Standard 3. The student communicates through the arts

3.1 Uses the arts to express and present ideas and feelings
* Expresses ideas and feelings through the arts, synthesizing forms and styles

3.2 Uses the arts to communicate for a specific purpose
* Supports and defends the artistic elements chosen to communicate for a specific purpose

3.3 Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic choices
* Analyzes personal aesthetic development

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Standard 4. The student makes connections within and across the arts, to other disciplines, cultures, life, and work

4.1 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts disciplines
* Creates an arts presentation integrating two or more arts disciplines

4.2 Demonstrates and analyzes the connections between the arts and other content areas
* Creates an arts presentation, integrating the arts with another content area

4.3 Understands how the arts impact lifelong choices
* Projects and plans how the arts impact personal future choices

4.4 Understands that the arts shape and reflect culture and history
* Applies knowledge of how the arts shape and reflect culture and history throughout time

4.5 Demonstrates knowledge of arts careers and the role of arts skills in the world of work
* Researches arts careers (e.g., job shadowing, apprenticeships, and mentorships)
* Applies arts skills and knowledge used in the world of work

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