MUS-HS.c1 Category

(c1) Category 1: Executive Skills and Knowledge The technical skills and understanding required to physically perform on the instrument, such as body format, bowing, etc.

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Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c1) Category 1: Executive Skills and Knowledge (A) Body Format Students perform with a lengthened and balanced posture; supports instrument without tension, demonstrate ease of motion; format is adjusted for physiological changes due to growth; control of weight distribution, unilateral movement, bilateral movement, in sitting and standing position.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Continue previous criteria, monitoring, and adjusting to physical characteristics of individual students.

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c1) Category 1: Executive Skills and Knowledge (B) Left Hand Skills and Knowledge Students perform with the correct placement and angle of the left arm-wrist-hand-fingers to the instrument; demonstrate position that is balanced and free of tension; play with independence of fingers, ease of motion and control of finger weight; produce characteristic tone, with vibrato (as appropriate); show understanding and ability to apply fingerings, finger patterns, shifting, extensions.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Artistic development and application of vibrato.
  
• 4.2  Extension of vertical technique.

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c1) Category 1: Executive Skills and Knowledge (C) Right Hand Skills and Knowledge Students perform with fluent bowing motion, control of variables (weight, angle, speed, and placement), in a variety of bowing techniques and articulations, with characteristic tone.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Ricochet bowing
  
• 4.2  Sautillé 
• 4.3  Flying Spiccato
• 4.4  Extension of technique related to control of bowing variables (weight, angle, speed, and placement)

  MUS-HS.c2 Category

(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.

Calculations

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Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge (A) Tonal Aural Skills and Ear Training 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.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Students perform, by ear, melodies and accompaniments in various modes and scales (e.g., Dorian, Mixolydian, Blues, etc.) and harmonies. 
  
• 4.2  Students improvise melodies and accompaniments in various modes and scales (e.g., Dorian, Mixolydian, Blues, etc.) and harmonies.

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge (B) Rhythmic Aural Skills and Ear Training 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.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Students will perform rhythmic patterns in irregular meters and polymeters. 4.2  Students will perform rhythmic patterns in mixed  meters. 
  
• 4.3  Students will perform rhythmic patterns containing syncopation within a single macrobeat. 
• 4.4  Students will improvise rhythmic patterns corresponding to Learning Tasks 4.1-4.3.

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge (C) Creative Musicianship 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.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Rhythmic: Students analyze rhythmic phrases for tonal content and improvise over class-generated  accompaniments. 
  
• 4.2  Tonal (Melodic and Harmonic): Students create solos using three scales over class-generated three-chord harmonic motion. 
• 4.3  Textural: Students improvise descriptive stories, including melody and harmony (harmonic focus). 
• 4.4  Composition: Students add third and fourth parts to their original scores. 
• 4.5  Creative Leadership: Students combine original scores with student-conducted improvised sections.

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (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.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Students correctly identify tonality (including key signatures) for all major and minor keys.
  
• 4.2  Students correctly identify and perform in modes and scales: Dorian, Mixolydian, and Blues.
• 4.3  Students understand and are able to perform notation associated with non-classical styles (e.g., twentieth century/modern, world music, other special effects).

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c2) Category 2: Musicianship Skills and Knowledge (E) Ensemble Skills 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.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Students adjust pulse, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics within the ensemble.
  
• 4.2  Students demonstrate: preparation, balance, blend, style, interpretation, and music sensitivity.

  MUS-HS.c3 Category

(c3) Category 3: Artistic Skills and Knowledge The elements that relate to the creative and expressive side of music-making, beyond mere performance, such as improvisation, performance with artistic understanding, etc.

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Categories are larger groups of related standards. The category grade is a calculation of all the related standards. Click on the standard name below each category to access the learning targets and rubrics/ proficiency scales for individual standards within the category.

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c3) Category 3: Artistic Skills and Knowledge (A) Expressive Elements Students employ expressive elements of music to communicate abstract thoughts, ideas, and meaning, share the depth of the human experience, and develop expression and understanding.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Students perform with consistent timbre and tone quality at all dynamic levels.
  
• 4.2  Students independently interpret and perform musical selections, applying approprieate dynamics, tempi, and timbre.
• 4.3  Students understand and perform with correct performance, practiced for selected repertoire.
• 4.4  Students understand and perform with correct performance, practiced for selected repertoire.
• 4.5  Students demonstrate artistic applications of vibrato.
• 4.6  Students use ornamentation, as appropriate to the performance/practice and conventions of the period and style.

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c3) Category 3: Artistic Skills and Knowledge (B) Historical and Cultural Elements Students listen to, respond to, and perform music from a wide range of genres in a culturally authentic manner, reflecting the diverse nature of people groups and cultures across the world and in the United States, and performances demonstrate an understanding of historical and cultural contexts and reflect stylistic traditions and practice

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Students listen to selected music from diverse cultures and musical eras.
  
• 4.2  Students analyze and classify music according to style, composer, and genre. 
• 4.3  Students perform a comprehensive repertoire of eclectic styles in a manner that reflects understanding of cultural and stylistic traditions.

Chamberth Grade (MUS) Targeted String Standard     (c3) Category 3: Artistic Skills and Knowledge (C) Evaluation of Music and Musical Performance Students evaluate and analyze music for executive skill, musicianship, and artistic considerations and evaluate and analyze the individual and group performances based on appropriate criteria.

Proficiency Scale

Learning Targets

• 4.1  Students evaluate individual and group performance using established criteria. 
  
• 4.2  Students describe personal preference in music listening and group performance. 
• 4.3  Students, with teacher assistance, establish criteria for evaluating individual and group performances based on the level of music performed. 
• 4.4  Students compare and contrast performances of various interpretations of the same piece, using appropriate terminology and informed value judgments.