(c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge
(D) Music Literacy 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 audiation 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.
1.1 Students correctly identify and perform basic music notation and symbols associated with the following skills and understanding to each corresponding curricular level (see list in learning tasks).
1.2 Students sight-read basic music notation and symbols.
1.3 Students understand chord symbols (root only).
1.4 Students correctly identify the following key signatures: C, G, D, and F major (with their relative minors).
1.5 Students correctly identify accidentals of flat, natural, sharp.
1.6 Students correctly identify musical forms: AB and ABA.
Proficiency Scale