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 5

Reading and notating music

Achievement Standard

  • Students read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, and alla breve meter signatures
  • 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 use standard notation to record their musical ideas and the musical ideas of others
  • Students who participate in a choral or instrumental ensemble or class sightread, accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 2, on a scale of 1 to 6

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