Grade+9-12+Instrumental+Music

= Essential Learnings and Indicators of Success =

== **EL 1** Students will match pitch. ==
 * 1) Students will play correctly produced tones on their instruments as exhibited by correct embouchure, inhalation, and a supported air stream.
 * 2) Students will identify and differentiate pitch according to their individual instrument.
 * 3) Students will describe pitch tendencies of their instrument.
 * 4) Students will hear and fix instrument pitch problems.
 * 5) Students of transposing instruments will demonstrate proper transposition from concert pitch.

== **EL 2** Students will read and notate music. ==
 * 1) Students will identify musical symbols and their meanings within their current concert music.
 * 2) Students will be able to identify and draw 12 chromatic notes on the staff in their instrument clef.
 * 3) Students will be able to identify and draw rhythm patterns within their current concert music.
 * 4) Students will match musical terms with their meanings within their current concert music.
 * 5) Students will be able to describe and draw all common rhythms in duple (4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 2/2) and triple (3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8) time signatures.

== **EL 3** Students will recreate a varied repertoire of music through performance. ==
 * 1) Students will exhibit an understanding of duple (4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 2/2) and triple (3/8, 6/8, 9/8, 12/8) time signatures.
 * 2) Students will respond to the conductor's cues of rhythm and tempo while playing.
 * 3) Students will demonstrate aural/oral skills and verbal association through audition, pitch-matching, sight-singing, rhythm reading, blend of sections, and balance of ensemble.
 * 4) Students will evaluate their personal and group stage presence according to criteria for appropriate stage behavior.

== **EL 4** Students will listen to, analyze, evaluate, and describe music. == > == **EL 5** Students will relate music to various historical and cultural traditions. ==
 * 1) Students will listen and evaluate live and recorded performances.
 * 2) Students will listen, analyze, evaluate, and provide written responses to their own recorded and live performances.
 * 1) Students will play an expanding repertoire of music representing historical and culturally diverse literature.
 * 2) Students will describe how distinguishing elements of music are used in examples from various cultures.
 * 3) Students will describe the roles of musicians and the history of band represented by different cultures.
 * 4) Students will analyze and evaluate recorded music throughout history and from various cultures.
 * 5) Students will explain the value and joy of music in their personal lives as well as in our society.