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.

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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.