1. Evaluate application of the elements of music and characteristics of musical sounds as they are used in a variety of genres and styles representative of world cultures
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a. Identify traditional sources of musical sound, world instruments, and non-traditional sources, such as modified instruments, new instruments, and environmental sounds
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b. Identify and define standard music notation symbols for pitch and rhythm
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c. Listen to and describe music, with attention to form, genre, cultural influences, performance media, and other prominent elements of music
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d. Categorize aural music examples representing diverse genres and world cultures, using musical terms
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e. Listen to and categorize music representing diverse genres and world cultures
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f. Listen to and describe instruments from various world cultures, such as the steel drum, pan pipes, conga drum, gong, tabla, sitar, and guitar
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2. Develop the skills needed in the performance of music in general, vocal, and instrumental settings
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a. Demonstrate accuracy and independence in playing in ensembles on a variety of classroom instruments (8 measures)
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b. Perform accurately vocal or instrumental music representing diverse genres and world cultures
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c. Sing with expression and technical accuracy a stylistically varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 1, on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory (for students enrolled in vocal performance ensembles)
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d. Play with expression and technical accuracy a stylistically varied repertoire of instrumental literature with a difficulty of 1, on a scale of 1 to 6, including some solos performed from memory (for students enrolled in instrumental performance ensembles)
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e. Sight-read, accurately and expressively, beginning ensemble literature for students enrolled in instrumental performance ensembles. For students enrolled in vocal performance ensembles, sight-read music with a level of difficulty of 1, on a scale of 1 to 6
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3. Respond to music through movement
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a. Communicate rhythmic and expressive intent through movement to music in simple and compound meters
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4. Read standard notation and apply it to the performance of music
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a. Read and perform music that includes whole, half, quarter notes and rests and two connected eighth notes grouped in duple, triple, quadruple, and mixed meters
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b. Read and perform a variety of polyphonic music, including rounds and partner songs, through singing or on classroom instruments
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c. Use standard notation to record short dictated melodic phrases and rhythmic patterns (not more than two measures in duple, triple, or quadruple meters; not more than a one-octave diatonic range; rhythms no more complex than whole, half, and quarter notes and rests, and two connected eighth notes)
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d. Identify occurrences of transposition in music by sight
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e. Identify contrasting musical ideas in aural and notated examples
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f. Read and perform a variety of polyphonic and homophonic music on classroom instruments
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g. Play simple melodies in treble clef at sight on classroom instruments (4 measures)
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h. Read and perform a variety of polyphonic and homophonic music at a difficulty level of 1, on a scale of 1 to 6 (for students in vocal and instrumental ensembles)
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i. Sight-read individually the melody and rhythm of selected four-measure passages from music at a difficulty level of 1, on a scale of 1 to 6 (for students enrolled in vocal and instrumental ensembles)
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