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Music Composition

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Standards

CCLS and Blueprint Standards

During this unit, students will be able to identify music and:

  • Students express themselves as musicians through performance, improvisation, and composition.

  • Students will be able to identify music and:
    • integrate notation and elements of music.
    • describe and analyze musical forms.
    • recognize, identify, and notate the pitches of the treble staff.
    • compose, notate, and perform and eight-measure piece using traditional notation.
    • read and perform diatonic melodies with rhythmic values that include whole, half, quarter, and eighth rests.

 

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Unit Details

Middle
School

Arts Discipline: Music
Grade: 8
Borough: Manhattan

Music: Middle School Unit

Music Composition