Targeted Standards:

National Standards for Arts Education:

The standards outline what every K-12 student should know and be able to do in the arts. The standards were developed by the Consortium of National Arts Education Associations, through a grant administered by The National Association for Music Education (MENC).


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Content Standard 4

Composing and arranging music within specified guidelines

Achievement Standard

  • Students compose short pieces within specified guidelines (e.g., a particular style, form, instrumentation, compositional technique), demonstrating how the elements of music are used to achieve unity and variety, tension and release, and balance
  • Students arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which the pieces were written
  • Students use a variety of traditional and nontraditional sound sources and electronic media when composing and arranging

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