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
Proficient:
- Students demonstrate the ability to read an instrumental or vocal score of up to four staves by describing how the elements of music are used
- Students who participate in a choral or instrumental ensemble or class sight-read, accurately and expressively, music with a level of difficulty of 3, on a scale of 1 to 6
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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