High School Music
9-12 Music Essential Learnings
As a result of participation in a variety of performance ensemble and applied music elective courses at North Haven High School:
The learner develops understanding of and facility with language and practices for making music
- Develops competencies for using tools and techniques to produce and represent sound and music
- Develops listening competencies for “musicing”
- Develops competencies for using elements of music in diverse contexts
The learner generates, develops, and communicates ideas for creating music
- Generates ideas from a variety of sources for creating music
- Experiments with and develops ideas for creating music
- Revises, refines and shares ideas for creating music
The learner develops understandings about the significance of music by connecting music to diverse contexts
- Revises, refines and shares ideas for creating music
- Develops understandings about relationships between music and multiple contexts past and present
- Develops understandings about the roles, purposes, and meanings of music for self and others
The learner develops and uses critical reflection and thinking for music learning
- Generates initial reactions to music experiences
- Critically listens to, observes, and describes music experiences
- Analyzes and interprets music experiences
- Constructs meanings about music experiences