Students will demonstrate: 1. Singing alone and with others, a varied repretoire of music a. Students sing accurately and with good breath control throughout their singing ranges, alone and in large ensembles b. Students sing music representing diverse genres and cultures with expression appropriate for the work being performed c. Students sing music written in parts d. Students sing with expression and technical accuracy a varied 2. Performing on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music. 3. Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments 4. Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines a. Students compose short pieces withing specified guidelines b. Students use a variety of traditional and nontraditional soundsources and electronic media when composing and arranging. 5. Reading and notating music a. Students will read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes, and rest in various time signatures b. Students will read at sight simple melodies in both treble and bass clefs c. Students identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression. d. Students use standard notation to record their musical ideas and the musical ideas of others. e. Students sight-read, accurately and expressively. 6. Listening to, analyzing, and describing music a. Students describe specific musical events in a given aural example, using appropriate terminology. b. Students deomonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of meter, rhythm, tonlity, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions in their analyses of music. 7. Evaluating music and music performances a. Students develop a criteria for evaluation the quality and effectiveness of music performances. 8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts 9. Understanding music in relation to history and culture