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  G R A D E S   9 - 1 2
NA.9-12.1 SINGING, ALONE AND WITH OTHERS, A VARIED REPERTOIRE OF MUSIC
Achievement Standard, Proficient:
  • Students sing with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 4, on a scale of 1 to 6, including some songs performed from memory
  • Students sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment
  • Students demonstrate well-developed ensemble skills
Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students sing with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of vocal literature with a level of difficulty of 5, on a scale of 1 to 6
  • Students sing music written in more than four parts
  • Students sing in small ensembles with one student on a part
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NA.9-12.2 PERFORMING ON INSTRUMENTS, ALONE AND WITH OTHERS, A VARIED REPERTOIRE OF MUSIC
Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students perform with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature with a level of difficulty of 5, on a scale of 1 to 6
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NA.9-12.3 IMPROVISING MELODIES, VARIATIONS, AND ACCOMPANIMENTS
Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts in a variety of styles
  • Students improvise original melodies in a variety of styles, over given chord progressions, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality
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NA.9-12.4 COMPOSING AND ARRANGING MUSIC WITHIN SPECIFIED GUIDELINES
Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Achievement Standard, Advanced:--
  • Students compose music, demonstrating imagination and technical skill in applying the principles of composition
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NA.9-12.5 READING AND NOTATING MUSIC
Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students demonstrate the ability to read a full instrumental or vocal score by describing how the elements of music are used and explaining all transpositions and clefs
  • Students interpret nonstandard notation symbols used by some 20th-century composers
  • Students who participate in a choral or instrumental ensemble or class sight-read, accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 4, on a scale of 1 to 6
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NA.9-12.6 LISTENING TO, ANALYZING, AND DESCRIBING MUSIC
Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students demonstrate the ability to perceive and remember music events by describing in detail significant events (e.g., fugal entrances, chromatic modulations, developmental devices) occurring in a given aural example
  • Students compare ways in which musical materials are used in a given example relative to ways in which they are used in other works of the same genre or style
  • Students analyze and describe uses of the elements of music in a given work that make it unique, interesting, and expressive
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NA.9-12.7 EVALUATING MUSIC AND MUSIC PERFORMANCES
Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Achievement Standard, Advanced:--
  • Students evaluate a given musical work in terms of its aesthetic qualities and explain the musical means it uses to evoke feelings and emotions
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NA-M.9-12.8 UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MUSIC, THE OTHER ARTS, AND DISCIPLINES OUTSIDE THE ARTS
Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students compare the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts in different historical periods and different cultures
  • Students explain how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another in the various arts (e.g., creators: painters, composers, choreographers, playwrights; performers: instrumentalists, singers, dancers, actors; others: conductors, costumers, directors, lighting designers)
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NA-M.9-12.9 UNDERSTANDING MUSIC IN RELATION TO HISTORY AND CULTURE
Achievement Standard, Proficient:

Achievement Standard, Advanced:
  • Students identify and explain the stylistic features of a given musical work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context
  • Students identify and describe music genres or styles that show the influence of two or more cultural traditions, identify the cultural source of each influence, and trace the historical conditions that produced the synthesis of influences
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