Grade 6-8 General Music

Create Perform Respond Music Literacy
  • Play simple melodies, harmonies, and rhythms on classroom instruments from notation
  • Improvise accompaniment to simple rhythms
  • Create text and music to accompany their text
  • Improvise on familiar melodies using scat syllables
  • Improvise and compose melodies using basic blues scale
  • Sing a repertoire of songs from many cultures
  • Perform on classroom instruments
  • Sing the blues scale
  • Sing composed and original blues
  • Recognize, compare/contrast different styles and forms of musical compositions
  • Develop a music vocabulary to discuss the elements of music 
  • Describe aural examples of music using music terminology
  • Identify music skills and understand how they relate to a variety of music careers
  • Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior
  • Understand how music is produced by the various instrument groups
  • Demonstrate knowledge of music as it relates to school curricula, themes and projects
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of the uses of music in many cultures and historical context
  • Demonstrate importance of blues and its contribution to American music and culture
  • Demonstrate knowledge of musical theater
  • Read standard notation for quarter notes, eighth notes, quarter notes and half notes, dotted half notes, whole notes, whole rests, four sixteenth notes
  • Identify notes of treble clef
  • Understand note values and meter as it relates to mathematics