Middle School Music
6-8 Music Essential Learnings
Develop understanding of and facility with elements, concepts, and techniques for making music
- Develop skills for making music individually and as part of an ensemble
- Develop skills for making music through aural, written, and visual music systems
- Demonstrate awareness and understanding of and facility with rhythm, melody, texture, and harmony in a variety of musical contexts
- Demonstrate understanding of expression, timbre, and form in a variety of musical contexts
Collaboratively and individually generate, develop, and communicate ideas in creating original and interpretive music for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Generate and use ideas from a variety of sources for creating music
- Develop ideas in music, creatively integrating music elements, techniques, and compositional tools
- Interpret, perform, and share their own and others’ music
Students connect music to contexts of time, place, and community, and develop understanding of how music reflects and influences culture and identity
- Experience and develop awareness of music from various times, places, social groups, and cultures
- Experience and develop awareness of a variety of music genres, styles, and traditions
- Demonstrate understanding of the roles, purposes, and meanings of music in the lives of individuals and in communities
Students analyze, reflect on, and construct meaning in response to their own and others’ music
- Demonstrate interest, curiosity, and engagement while making and experiencing music in a variety of contexts
- Analyze their own and others’ musical excerpts, works, and performances
- Form personal responses to and construct meaning from their own and others’ music
- Assess their learning in performing, creating, and experiencing music