The Preparatory & Professional School of San Bernardino County               Caryl Lyons

COMPETENCY GOAL 4: The learner will compose and arrange music within specified guidelines. (National Standard 4)

Objectives

4.01 Compose and arrange music incorporating appropriate voicings, and ranges.

4.02 Synthesize the study and characteristics of several styles/genres of music to create original compositions.

4.03 Use a variety of sound, notational, and technological sources to compose and arrange music.

COMPETENCY GOAL 5: The learner will read and notate music. (National Standard 5)

Objectives

5.01 Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted note and rest durations in 2/4, 2/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, 12/8, 2/2, and mixed meters.

5.02 Demonstrate the ability to read a vocal score of up to four staves by describing how the elements of music are used.

5.03 Sight-read moderately difficult musical examples with accuracy and expression.

5.04 Notate moderately difficult music examples using standard notation.

5.05 Identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.

COMPETENCY GOAL 6: The learner will listen to, analyze, and describe music. (National Standard 6)

Objectives

6.01 Identify musical forms representing diverse genres and cultures.

6.02 Demonstrate increased knowledge of the technical vocabulary of music.

6.03 Analyze and describe the elements of music in a given work.

6.04 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.

6.05 Demonstrate auditory perceptual skills by conducting, moving, answering questions about, and describing aural examples of music.

COMPETENCY GOAL 7: The learner will evaluate music and music performances. (National Standard 7)

Objectives

7.01 Apply specific criteria for making informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations and apply the criteria to one's personal participation in music.

7.02 Evaluate musical works by comparing, contrasting, and summarizing them in relation to similar or exemplary models.

7.03 Examine and determine the best economic value of instruments, materials, or recordings to make informed choices.

7.04 Apply rules of standard English in written evaluations of music.

7.05 Evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain musical devices it used to evoke feelings and emotions.

COMPETENCY GOAL 8: The learner will understand relationships between music, the other arts, and content areas outside the arts. (National Standard 8)

Objectives

8.01 Apply rules of standard English to compare and contrast the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts areas in different historical periods and cultures.

8.02 Analyze ways in which the concepts and skills of other content areas outside the arts are interrelated with those of music.

8.03 Synthesize and apply information from other content areas to facilitate musical understanding.

8.04 Compare and contrast the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts.

COMPETENCY GOAL 9: The learner will understand music in relation to history and culture. (National Standard 9)

Objectives

9.01 Classify unfamiliar and familiar representative examples of music using distinguishing characteristics to identify genre, style, culture and/or historical periods; justify the reasons for the classifications.

9.02 Recognize and identify ways that music reflects history.

9.03 Examine patterns, relationships, and trends in music of various cultures and historical periods to draw inferences and make predictions about past, present, and future social outcomes.