Middle School Level 2

Compare and contrast exemplary musical examples using technology and available live performances.

Demonstrate knowledge of tonal and rhythmic musical elements using standard terminology such as instrumentation, voicing, intervals, solfège, absolute note names, rhythmic values, and counting systems.

Demonstrate knowledge of musical elements of rhythm, including whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, paired and single eighth notes, sixteenth notes, syncopated patterns, corresponding rests, and meter, including 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8, using standard terminology; August 2019 Update Page 13 §117.B. Middle School.

Interpret musical forms such as binary, ternary, phrasic, rondo, and theme and variations presented aurally and through music notation.

Describe health and wellness concepts related to musical practice such as body mechanics, hearing protection, vocal health, hydration, and appropriate hygienic practice.

Interpret music symbols and terms referring to notation, including fermata and coda; dynamics, including pianissimo to fortissimo; tempi, including andante, largo and adagio; and articulations, including accent, marcato, and previously known elements.

Notate meter, rhythm, pitch, and dynamics using standard symbols in a handwritten or computer-generated format.

Create increasingly complex rhythmic phrases, using known rhythms, and melodic phrases, using known pitches, within an established system of notation.

Read music notation using appropriate cognitive and kinesthetic responses such as inner hearing, silent fingering, shadow bowing, or Curwen hand signs.

Sight-read unison, homophonic, and polyphonic music using the appropriate clef in a minimum of three keys and three meters, including 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.

Demonstrate, alone and in groups, characteristic vocal or instrumental timbre.

Perform music, alone and in groups, demonstrating appropriate physical fundamental techniques such as hand position, bowing, embouchure, articulation, and posture.

Perform independently and expressively, with accurate intonation and rhythm, demonstrating fundamental skills and appropriate solo, small ensemble, and large ensemble performance techniques.

Perform independently and expressively a varied repertoire of music representing various styles and cultures.

Sight-read independently and expressively, with accurate intonation and rhythm, demonstrating fundamental skills and appropriate solo, small ensemble, and large ensemble performance techniques in known keys and rhythms.

Interpret music symbols and terms referring to previously known elements; notation, including fermata and coda; keys; clefs; dynamics, including pianissimo to fortissimo; tempi, including andante, largo, and adagio; and articulations, including accent and marcato, appropriately when performing.

Create increasingly complex rhythmic phrases using known rhythms and melodic phrases using known pitches at an appropriate level of difficulty.

Perform music such as "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Texas, Our Texas" that is representative of diverse cultures, including American and Texas heritage.

Examine written and aurally presented music representative of diverse genres, styles, periods, and cultures; Page 14 August 2019 Update.

Identify relationships of music content and processes to other academic disciplines such as the relationship between music and mathematics, literature, history, and the sciences.

Describe music-related vocations and avocations.

Demonstrate appropriate concert and stage etiquette as an informed, actively involved listener and performer during live and recorded performances in a variety of settings.

Apply criteria for listening to and evaluating musical performances.

Demonstrate processes and select the tools for self-evaluation and personal artistic improvement such as critical listening to individual and group performance recordings.

Identify and apply criteria for evaluating personal performances.

Evaluate the quality and effectiveness of musical performances by comparing them to exemplary models.

Demonstrate appropriate cognitive and kinesthetic responses to music and musical performances.