COURSE+DESCRIPTION-2

=** COURSE DESCRIPTION-2 **=

= ** General Music ** =

=// This semester-long course is designed for students to explore the skills necessary for perceiving, performing and responding to music. Students will discover music's role as an essential aspect in history and human experience, and make connections between music and its relationship to the other subjects taught in middle school. Through musical activities with classroom instruments and special projects, the students will learn to organize musical ideas and sounds creatively, with experiences in moving to music, singing, reading, notating, composing, arranging, transposing, and improvising music. In addition to learning music skills and concepts, this hands-on approach is ideal for the development of creative and critical thinking skills. The students will listen to a variety of music, and develop a vocabulary of musical terms that will enable them to describe, analyze and evaluate musical performances. //=

= __COURSE OBJECTIVES for GENERAL MUSIC CLASSES__ : = ** = AESTHETIC EDUCATION: PERCEIVING, PERFORMING AND RESPONDING TO MUSIC = 2. Recognize and analyze the skills needed in the performance of music. 3. Respond to music through movement. 4. Read standard notation and apply it to the performance of music **
 * The following content standards and indicators are taken from the Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum Draft, and will guide the scope and sequence for the eighth grade general music classes:
 * 1. Identify elements and characteristics of music in a variety of genres, styles and cultures.

= Historical, Cultural, and Social Context: Music's Role in History and Human Experience = 3. Identify the relationship of music to dance, theatre, the visual arts and other disciplines. 4. Identify and describe significant styles and genres in music history and world cultures. ** = Creative Expression and Production: Organizing Musical Ideas and Sounds  = =   Aesthetics and Criticism: Making Aesthetic Judgments    =
 * 1. Describe how musical expression reflects social, political, and ethical issues.**
 * 2. Determine factors that influence musicians in specific historical eras and places.
 * 1. Explore musical ideas through simple improvisations.**
 * 2. Preserve musical ideas through simple compositions and arrangements. **
 * 1. Evaluate selected musical compositions using established criteria.**
 * 2. Formulate, apply, and communicate criteria for evaluating performances. **