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Targeted Standards:
National Standards for Arts Education:
The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be
able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium
of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered
by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).
View the full text of the standards.
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Content Standard 6
Listening to, analyzing, and describing music
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music, representing diverse genres and cultures, by describing the uses of
elements of music and expressive devices
- Students demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music
- Students identify and explain compositional devices and techniques used to provide unity and variety and tension and release in a musical work and give examples of other works that make similar uses of these devices
and techniques
Advanced:
- Students demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events by describing in detail significant events (e.g., fugal entrances, chromatic modulations, developmental devices) occurring in a given aural example
- Students compare ways in which musical materials are used in a given example relative to ways in which they are used in other works of the same genre or style
- Students analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive
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