(c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge
The elements such as understanding of rhythms, aural skills, note-reading skills, etc., that relate to musical understandings.
MUS-06.c2.A
Tonal Aural Skills and Ear Training
MUS-06.c2.B
Rhythmic Aural Skills and Ear Training
MUS-06.c2.C
Creative Musicianship
Students demonstrate the following abilities: matching and manipulating pitch, playing with a sense of tonality, tonal-melodic and tonal-harmonic function (horizontal/vertical relationships/functions of tonality), ear-to-hand skills, aural and kinesthetic
awareness of pitch accuracy and intonation, including and related to improvisation.
Students perform simple and complex rhythm patterns/functions, with stray pulse/beat, correct sense of meter, metric organization and phrasing, in a variety of meters.
Students demonstrate creative musicianship skills at all stages of development, including the ability to improvise variations of rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic patterns, within the traditions and standards of a variety of genres and practices:
arrange and compose melodies and harmonies according to specific criteria and guidelines.
MUS-06.c2.D
Music Literacy
MUS-06.c2.E
Ensemble Skills
Students demonstrate sequential music literacy skills (decoding and comprehension), defined as an association of sound-to-symbol, in a given musical context, which includes: predictive components (understanding of reading based on audition of written
material) and knowledge of symbols and notation related to pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tonality, clef, articulation, etc.) based on the principle that sound comes before sight.
Students perform in an ensemble, demonstrating sensitivity and the ability to adjust and maintain a uniform sense of rhythm, tempo, articulation, tone, blend, balance, and dynamics; understand conducting gestures, follow conductor and section leader,
and are able to synchronize bowings.
Calculations
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