Grade+7-8+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 match musical terms with their meanings.
 * 2) Students will be able to identify and draw 12 chromatic notes on the staff in their instrument clef.
 * 3) Students will exhibit an understanding of 4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 2/2, 3/8, and 6/8 time signatures.
 * 4) Students will produce note and rest values of Whole, Half, Quarter, Dotted Quarter, Eighth, Sixteenth, Triplet, Dotted Eighth Sixteenth and combinations of the above.
 * 5) Students will create a simple melody written on a musical staff.

== **EL 3** Students will recreate a varied repertoire of music through performance. ==
 * 1) Students will prepare music that varies in style, tempo, and rhythm, to perform two or more concerts during one school year.
 * 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 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 analyze live and recorded performances by 6-12th Grade Bands.
 * 2) Students will listen to and describe professionally recorded music.
 * 3) Students will listen, analyze, evaluate, and provide written responses to their own recorded performances.
 * 1) Students will rehearse 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 explain the value of music in their personal lives as well as in our society.