Students listen to and analyze music critically, using the vocabulary and language of music . Grades 7-8 Students describe specific music events in a given aural example, using appropriate terminology. Students read and notate music. Grades 7-8 Students read at sight simple melodies in both the treble and bass clefs. Students identify and define standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression.
Students sing or perform on instruments a varied repertoire of music.
Grades 7-8 Alone or in small and large ensembles, students sing accurately and with good breath control throughout the singing ranges or perform on at least one instrument accurately and independently, with good posture, playing position, and breath, bow or stick control. Students sing music written in two and three parts or play simple melodies by ear on a melodic instrument and simple accompaniments on a harmonic instrument. Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments. Grades 7-8 Students improvise simple harmonic accompaniments. Students improvise melodic embellishments and simple rhythmic and melodic variations to given rhythmic and melodic phrases.