Level: High School Course: Instrumental Music

1.Perform on Instruments

• • Perform accurately and independently in a group.

  • Perform with expression and technical accuracy on a wide variety of repertoire at difficulty of Grade 3-5 in a group.

  • Demonstrate ability to use ensemble skills of balance, intonation, rhythmic, and dynamic unity.

2. Improvise

• • Improvise a melody on an instrument in a selected style.

  • Improvise a melody on an instrument in various tonalities.

  • Improvise melodic and rhythmic variations on a given melody.

3.Compose and Arrange

• • Compose original music within specified guidelines.

  • Compose original melodic or harmonic accompaniment with guidelines.

  • Transpose for various instruments.

  • Demonstrate ability to use technological resources for composing and arranging music.

4. Read and Notate

• • Identify, define, and perform standard notations, symbols, and terms.

  • Use standard notation to record their musical ideas and the musical ideas of others.

5. Understand History and Culture

• • Identify the various uses of music in history and the characteristics that make it suitable for the event.

  • Identify and explain the stylistic features of a musical work that serve to define its’ aesthetic tradition and its’ historical or cultural context.

6. Evaluate music and music performance

• • Evaluate a performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.

  • Evaluate a given musical work in terms of its’ aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means it uses to evoke feelings.

7. Responsibility

• • Have instrument, music, drill (marching band), and pencil daily.

  • Be punctual for all rehearsals and performances.

  • Exhibit exemplary behavior during rehearsals, performances, and trips.