Educational+Standards+for+Music


 * As part of its Arts Curriculum Frameworks, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has published ten standards for the teaching of Music. These were based on the standards for teaching Music developed by the National Association for Music Education (MENC) . Together, these standards are the rationale behind all Music lessons taught at the Oak Bluffs School.**

//**Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Music Strands and Standards**//

//The Arts Disciplines: Students learn about and use the symbolic language of music.//

**Standard 1 - Singing** Students will sing, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

**Standard 2 - Reading and Notation** Students will read music written in standard notation.

**Standard 3 - Playing Instruments** Students will play instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music.

**Standard 4 - Improvisation and Composition** Students will improvise, compose, and arrange music.

**Standard 5 - Critical Response** Students will describe and analyze their own music and the music of others using appropriate music vocabulary. When appropriate, students will connect their analysis to interpretation and evaluation.

//Connections: History, Criticism, and Links to Other Disciplines: Students learn about the history and criticism of music, its role in the community, and its links to other disciplines.//

**Standard 6 - Purposes and Meanings in the Arts** Students will describe the purposes for which works of dance, music, theater, visual arts, and architecture were and are created, and, when appropriate, interpret their meanings.

**Standard 7 - Roles of Artists in Communities** Students will describe the roles of artists, patrons, cultural organizations, and arts institutions in societies of the past and present.

**Standard 8 - Concepts of Style, Stylistic Influence, and Stylistic Change** Students will demonstrate their understanding of styles, stylistic influence, and stylistic change by identifying when and where art works were created, and by analyzing characteristic features of art works from various historical periods, cultures, and genres.

**Standard 9 - Inventions, Technologies, and the Arts** Students will describe and analyze how performing and visual artists use and have used materials, inventions, and technologies in their work.

**Standard 10 - Interdisciplinary Connections** Students will apply their knowledge of the arts to the study of English language arts, foreign languages, health, history and social science, mathematics, and science and technology/engineering.

// **MENC National Standards for Music** //