Music Return to index Band 1 grades 9-12 Band 2 grades 9-12 Band 3 grades 9-12 Choir 1 grades 9-12 Choir 2 grades 9-12 Choir 3 grades 9-12 Music lab grades 9-12 Advanced Placement Music Theory Orchestra grades 9-12 Understanding, grades 9-12 Adaptive Music

Understanding grades 9-12 Standard 6:  Listens to, analyzes, and describes music + Knows specific criteria that affects the quality and expressive impact of music performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations Standard 9:  Understands music as an integral part of history and culture + Identifies sources of American music genres, traces the evolution of those genres, and cites well-known musicians associated with them + Identifies various roles that musicians perform, cites representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describes their activities and achievements + Identifies and explains the stylistic feature of a given musical work that serve to define its aesthetic tradition and its historical or cultural context + Identifies and describes music genres or styles that show the influence of two or more cultural traditions, identifies the cultural source of each influence, and traces the historical conditions that produced the synthesis of influences