Enduring Understanding:

● Personal Choice and Vision: Students construct and solve problems of personal relevance and interest when expressing themselves through music.

● Critical and Creative Thinking: Students combine and apply artistic and reasoning skills to imagine,

create, realize and refine musical works in conventional and innovative ways and to understand the works produced and performed by others.

● Authentic Application and Collaboration: Students work individually and in groups to focus ideas and create and perform music to address genuine local and global community needs.

● Literacy: As consumers, critics and creators, students evaluate and understand visual and performing artworks and other texts produced in the media forms of the 

Progress Points:

Students will at an appropriate developmental level:

A. Develop vocal and/or instrumental solo and/or ensemble performance skills to include performance

through traditional classical and other notations

B. Articulate a personal philosophy of music including personal valuing, musical preferences and

involvement.

C. Develop, analyze and apply appropriate criteria to evaluating pieces of music and musical

performances within and outside the classroom.

D. Read, write, improvise, compose and describe varied types of musical repertoire using vocabulary that

demonstrates an understanding of the language of music appropriate to the genre and culture.

E. Recognize the roles of vocational and avocational musicians in learning, creating and performing

across history and cultures, with focus on the function of music in society.

F. Use multimedia including media arts and music technology to create, analyze, rehearse, present,

record and disseminate music of a variety of styles.

G. Apply study, performance and collaborative skills learned and used in music to other arts and non-arts

subject areas.