Standards and Benchmarks/ Specific Content Music Grade 9

Colegio Granadino Curriculum

School Year: 2013 - 2014

Standard 1* - Sings, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music:

MC7.1.1 Sings on pitch and in rhythm

Singing readiness

MC7.1.2 Sings with good breath control, expression, and technical accuracy

Technical development
Breath Control
Sound emission

MC7.1.3 Sings music written in two and three parts

Easy choral music

MC7.1.4 Performs music that represents diverse genres and cultures and in different languages

Folk English songs

Colombian songs
World Music

Standard 2*: Performs on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music

MC8.2.1 Performs in a percussion ensemble, songs and exercises including different musical reading resources

Technical development
Unison ensemble with dynamics, tempo changes, amalgam, metric changes

MC8.2.2 Plays in ensemble on percussion, strings and keyboard instruments, music written in 3 and 4 parts

Instrumental ensemble
3 parts songs
4 part songs

MC9.2.3 Prepares a musical production

Preproduction
On Stage
Expectation campaign
Video promotion
Radio promotion
Managing

Standard 4. Reads and notates music

MC9.4.1 Understands the different symbols and conventions used in musical writing

Dynamics, ties, tempo, articulation, movement

MC9.4.2 understands the general meaning of a music score

Music score scrolling

Music score interpretation

Standard 5 Knows and applies proper criteria to music and music performance

MC9.5.1 Understands aesthetics and styles from the different historical ages in music

Ancient Music
Music in the Middle Ages
Gregorian chant
Renaissance
 Baroque Era
Classical period
Romantic Period
XX century
Aesthetics
Style
Musical structures
Musical Forms
Musical Arquitecture

MC9.5.2 Identifies and judges technical features in academic music

Technical components in specific repertoire

Standard 6 - Understands the relationship between music and history and culture.

MC9.6.1 Identifies historical facts in music and establish relation with current events

MC9.6.2 Knows and understands the historical background of music across the ages

MC9.6.4 Understands the relationship between music and arts, politics, economics and society.

Standard 7: Develops ear skills

MC9.7.1 Identifies easy technical elements of music by listening to them

Organology
Historical era
Aesthetic elements

MC9.7.2 Identifies musical instruments from the academic music by listening to them

*For selective class only