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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).
View the full text of the standards.
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Content Standard 8
Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
Achievement Standard
Proficient:
- Students explain how elements, artistic processes (such as imagination or craftmanship), and organizational
principles (such as unity and variety or repetition and contrast) are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts and cite examples
- Students compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures
- Students explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of music (e.g., language arts: compare the ability of music and literature to convey images, feelings, and meanings; physics: describe the physical basis of tone production in string, wind, percussion, and electronic instruments and the human voice and of the transformation and perception of sound)
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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