National Standards-Choir

 
Content Standard 1:  Sing alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

Goals:               Perform scales in any key signature using solfege
                     Sing in tune melodically and harmonically
                     Sing a cappella and accompaniment
                     Sing tall uniform vowels
                     Echo and read rhythm and melody patterns
                     Develop technique and skill

Content Standard 3:  Improvise melodies

Goals:              Make melodic changes to sections of selected compositions
                    Notate changes

Content Standard 5:  Read and Notate Music

Goals:               Sight read short melodic passages using solfege and  
                     gradually increase to an entire short song
                     Undertand that each song is like a
                     text book that must be read with
                     comprehension and expression
                     Demonstrate music literacy 

Content Standard 6:  Listening to, analyzing and describing music

Goals:               Distinguish form
                     Identify style/genre
                     Use music terms to describe music
                     Identify dynamics, articulation adn tempo
                     Distinguish music textures
                     Distinguish characteristics of music based on era
                     Describe in musical terms expressive elements found 
                     in the music
                     Analyze text

Content Standard 8:  Understand relationships between music, other arts and 
                     disciplines outside of the arts

Goal:                Students make connections through vocabulary,
                     expression and other elements

Content Standard 9: Understand music in relation to history and culture

Goals:              Distinguish genre
                    Distinguish characteristics of music based on era
                    Determine how history influenced specified 
                    composers and their works