Common Planner
K–12 Standards

Band I: Grades 6-12

Other West Virginia Fine Arts sets

Performing

  • 1

    Show proper instrument assembly, maintenance, hygiene and cleaning. MU.B.1.1

  • 2

    Perform beginning level music demonstrating appropriate pitch, rhythm, tone quality, intonation, and technique.MU.B.1.2

  • 3

    Perform beginning level music demonstrating rhythm, melody, and harmony.MU.B.1.3

  • 4

    Demonstrate music reading skills where appropriate.MU.B.1.4

  • 5

    Identify and demonstrate expressive qualities through performance.MU.B.1.5

  • 6

    Critique using self-reflection and peer review to refine performance.MU.B.1.6

  • 7

    Demonstrate an awareness of technical, expressive, and contextual qualities through performance.MU.B.1.7

  • 8

    Play scales and melodies in appropriate keys.MU.B.1.8

Exploring

  • 9

    Identify characteristic tone quality of instruments used in the ensemble.MU.B.1.9

  • 10

    Demonstrate a working knowledge of basic music theory skills including appropriate written notation, rhythm, and form. MU.B.1.10

  • 11

    Interpret expressive symbols (e.g. phrase markings, dynamics, articulation, tempo).MU.B.1.11

  • 12

    Describe how understanding context and the way the elements of music are manipulated influence the response to music.MU.B.1.12

  • 13

    Analyze individual and group performances.MU.B.1.13

  • 14

    Demonstrate how knowledge of the characteristics of the music influence the context of the performance.  MU.B.1.14

Creating

  • 15

    Improvise, compose, or arrange music within specified guidelines.MU.B.1.15

  • 16

    Share personally developed melodic and rhythmic ideas individually or as an ensemble.MU.B.1.16

  • 17

    Play and embellish rhythmic and melodic patterns within a given meter and tonality.MU.B.1.17

  • 18

    Create a response to rhythmic and melodic patterns performed by the teacher.MU.B.1.18

Relating

  • 19

    Relate rhythmic subdivision to simple mathematics. MU.B.1.19

  • 20

    Demonstrate an awareness of musical context through prepared and improvised performances.MU.B.1.20

  • 21

    Identify and describe the effect of interest, experience, analysis, and the evaluation of music.MU.B.1.21

  • 22

    Develop civic and global understandings through patriotic selections, world and folk songs.MU.B.1.22

  • 23

    Discuss social responsibility through appropriate audience behavior.MU.B.1.23

  • 24

    Demonstrate social responsibility through appropriate audience behavior in a given setting.MU.B.1.24

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What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, and Grade 12

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