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Using the State Curriculum: Music, Grade 7

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Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education:

Music:

Standard 1.0 Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education

Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, perform, and respond to music.

Indicator

Objectives
  1. Categorize sources of musical sound according to the Western Traditional Instrument Classification System (families of instruments) and the Hornbostel-Sachs Instrument Classification System
  2. Identify and define standard music notation symbols for dynamics and tempo
  3. Listen to and distinguish among forms of music, including ABA, call-and-response, theme and variation, rondo, and fugue
  4. Describe aural musical examples representing diverse genres and world cultures, using musical terms
  5. Listen to music representing diverse genres and world cultures and analyze its elements and structure
  6. Listen to and compare 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
Objectives
  1. Demonstrate accuracy and independence in playing in ensembles on a variety of classroom instruments (16 measures)
  2. Perform vocal or instrumental music representing diverse genres and world cultures with tone color and blend characteristic of the work being performed
  3. Sing with expression and technical accuracy a stylistically varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 2, on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory (for students enrolled in vocal performance ensembles)
  4. Play with expression and technical accuracy a stylistically varied repertoire of instrumental literature with a difficulty of 2, on a scale of 1 to 6, including some solos performed from memory (for students enrolled in instrumental performance ensembles)
  5. Sight-read, accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of sub-1, on a scale of 1 to 6 (for students enrolled in instrumental performance ensembles). For students enrolled in vocal performance ensembles, sight-read music with a level of difficulty of 2, on a scale of 1 to 6

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  • 3. Respond to music through movement
Objective
  1. Respond to music expressively through improvised movement

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  • 4. Read standard notation and apply it to the performance of music
Objectives
  1. Read and perform music that includes four sixteenth notes grouped, in duple, triple, quadruple, and mixed meters
  2. Read and perform a variety of homophonic music, including music in two or three parts and some with descants, sung or played on classroom instruments
  3. Use standard notation to record short dictated melodic phrases and rhythmic patterns (not more than four 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, two connected eighth notes, and four sixteenth notes grouped)
  4. Define transposition in music
  5. Identify similar musical ideas in aural and notated examples
  6. Read and perform a variety of polyphonic and homophonic music on classroom instruments
  7. Play simple melodies in treble and bass clefs at sight on classroom instruments (4 measures)
  8. Read and perform a variety of polyphonic and homophonic music at a difficulty level of 2, on a scale of 1 to 6 (for students in vocal and instrumental ensembles)
  9. 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)

August 6, 2008