December 10 HS/JH Christmas Music Concert 2:00

Grade Level Expectation: Product and Performance

2. Instrumental Performance Skills: Develop and apply instrumental music skills to perform and communicate through the arts.

1. Demonstrate instrumental technique (e.g. fingerings, stickings, playing position, tone quality, and articulation)

Learning Targets:

1. Students will perform with good tone quality

2. Students will identify the correct fingerings for all of the notes in the intermediate range

3. Students will demonstrate correct fingerings, stickings, and playing position

4. Students will identify articulation markings

5. Students will perform articulations markings correctly

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Grade Level Expectation: Elements of Music

1. Develop and apply the knowledge and skills to read and notate music.

A.  Rhythmic Notation:  Perform standard rhythmic notation in 2/4, ¾, 4/4, and 6/8 meter signatures with bar lines using the following notes and rests: whole, half, quarter, eighth, 16th, dotted half, dotted quarter, 3 eighth notes beamed in 6/8, and syncopation.

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Learning Targets:

1. Students will accurately define the following rhythmic notation.

   1. 2/4, ¾, 4/4, and 6/8 meter signatures with bar lines using the following notes and rests: whole, half, quarter, eighth, 16th, dotted half, dotted quarter, 3 eighth notes beamed in 6/8, and syncopation.

2. Students will accurately perform the listed rhythmic notation

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Grade Level Expectation: Elements of Music

1. Develop and apply the knowledge and skills to read and notate music.

B.  Melodic Notation:  Employ standard pitch notation in the clef appropriate to the student’s instrument or voice in an appropriate range and keys.

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Learning Targets:

1. Students will accurately identify all notes in the intermediate range of their instruments.

2. Students will accurately perform the these notes

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Grade Level Expectation: Artistic Perceptions

2. Develop and apply the knowledge and skills to evaluate music and musical performance

      B. Critique musical performance and compositions: Demonstrate the ability to distinguish between quality and non-quality performance through listening, performing, self-assessment and offer suggestions for improvement.

Learning Targets:

1. Students will accurately evaluate the musical performances of others, both individuals and ensembles, using music terminology.

2. Students will accurately evaluate their own musical performances, both individually and as part of an ensemble, using music terminology.