Alternate+Assessment

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 * ALTERNATE ASSESSMENT**

STANDARD 1 [] Key Idea: Students will explore and perform music in formal and informal contexts and will improvise, create and perform music based on their own ideas.
 * Music**

Performance Indicators
Students will:
 * explore what musical elements are
 * create short musical pieces consisting of sounds from a variety of traditional (e.g., tambourine, recorder, piano, voice), electronic (e.g., keyboard) and nontraditional sound sources (e.g., water-filled glasses)
 * sing songs and play instruments maintaining pitch, rhythm, tone and tempo
 * sing or play simple repeated rhythm patterns with familiar songs and rounds

STANDARD 2 []

Music
Key Idea: Students will use traditional instruments, electronic instruments and a variety of nontraditional sound sources to create and perform music. They will use various resources to expand their knowledge of listening experiences, performance opportunities and/or information about music. Students will identify opportunities to contribute to their communities' music institutions, including those embedded in other institutions (church choirs, industrial music ensembles, etc.). Students will know the vocations and avocations available to them in music.

Performance Indicators
Students will:
 * use classroom and nontraditional instruments in performing and creating music
 * construct instruments out of material not commonly used for musical instruments
 * use current technology to manipulate sound
 * learn about the various settings in which they hear music and the various resources that are used to produce music
 * demonstrate appropriate audience behavior, including attentive listening, in a variety of musical settings in and out of school
 * learn about ways that music is used by various members of the community

STANDARD 3 []

Music
Key Idea: Students will demonstrate the capacity to listen to and comment on music.

Performance Indicators
Students will:
 * through listening, tell what they liked or disliked about specific musical works and performances
 * learn about the basic elements of music such as melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, timbre, form, style, etc.
 * learn about the basic means by which the voice and instruments can alter pitch, loudness, duration and timbre

STANDARD 4 []

Music
Key Idea: Students will develop a beginning performing and listening repertoire of music of various genres, styles and cultures that represent the peoples of the world and their manifestations in the United States. Students will learn about the cultural features of a variety of musical compositions and performances and the functions of music within the culture.

Performance Indicators
Students will:
 * listen to and perform a basic repertoire of folk songs/dances and composed songs from the basic cultures that represent the peoples of the world
 * listen to composers of well-known examples of classical concert music, folk and blues/jazz selections