List of Benchmarks for Music | | Standard 6. | Knows and applies appropriate criteria to music and music performances | | | Level Pre-K (Grade Pre-K) | | | 1. | Responds to the tempo and rhythm of music (e.g., taps feet, claps hands)
| | | Level I (Grade K-2) | | | 1. | Knows personal preferences for specific musical works and styles | | | 2. | Identifies simple music forms (e.g., AB, ABA, call and response) when presented aurally | | | 3. | Responds through purposeful movement (e.g., swaying, skipping, dramatic play) to selected prominent music characteristics or to specific music events (e.g., meter changes, dynamic changes, same/different sections) | | | Level II (Grade 3-5) | | | 1. | Knows music of various styles representing diverse cultures | | | 2. | Knows appropriate terminology used to explain music, music notation, music instruments and voices, and music performances | | | 3. | Identifies the sounds of a variety of instruments (e.g., orchestral, band, instruments from various cultures) and voices (e.g., male, female, children’s voices) | | | Level III (Grade 6-8) | | | 1. | Identifies specific music events (e.g., entry of oboe, change of meter, return of refrain) when listening to music | | | 2. | Understands how the elements of music are used in various genres and cultures | | | 3. | Understands the basic principles of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions | | | 4. | Knows criteria that affect the quality (e.g., use of elements to create unity, variety, tension/release, balance) and effectiveness (e.g., expressive impact) of music performances and compositions | | | Level IV (Grade 9-12) | | | 1. | Understands how the elements of music and expressive devices are used in music from diverse genres and cultures | | | 2. | Understands the technical vocabulary of music (e.g., Italian terms, form, harmony, tempo markings) | | | 3. | Understands compositional devices and techniques that are used to provide unity and variety and tension and release in a musical work (e.g., motives, imitation, retrograde, inversion) | | | 4. | Knows specific criteria that affect the quality and effectiveness of music performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations (e.g., considers questions of unity or variety, consistency, appropriate use of resources) |
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