CREATE:

To inspire students in the application of their music knowledge, all students will be provided with opportunities to create music through improvisation and composition.

Improvise: Students will create spontaneous musical ideas within various expressive mediums.

Compose: Students will create, synthesize, and revise their ideas into a cohesive product.

PERFORM:

To foster further understanding of music and its elements, all students will be provided with classroom, solo, and/or ensemble performance opportunities.

Skill-development: Students will demonstrate their progressive musical skills using repertoire appropriate to the level of achievement.

Self-expressive: Students will develop an individual level of skill that enables them to perform expressively.

ANALYZE:

To develop the ability to make critical determinations about music, all students will be provided with a variety of aural and written musical examples.

Aesthetic: Students will develop the ability to interpret and describe how music evokes emotion.

Structural: Students will describe how the elements of music are used in the construction of music.

COMMUNICATE:

To enable students to recognize the global impact of music, all students will explore the reciprocal relationship between music and culture.

Cultural: Students will describe how music influences and reflects cultural beliefs, issues, and events.

Fine Arts: Students will learn to identify the relationship between music and other art forms.

Our PCSD Music Standards are in alignment with the 4 National Standards for The Arts:

Creating:  Conceiving and developing new artistic ideas and work

Performing:  Realizing artistic ideas and work through interpretation and presentation

Responding:  Understanding and evaluation how the arts convey meaning

Connecting:  Relating artistic ideas and work with personal meaning and external context