National Common Core Arts Standards
MUSIC – Creating
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Essential Question: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question: How do musicians make creative decisions?
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria
Essential Question: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication
Essential Question: When is creative work ready to share?
MUSIC – Performing
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
Essential Question: How do performers select repertoire?
Enduring Understanding: Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
Essential Question: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?
Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Essential Question: How do performers interpret musical works?
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response
Essential Question(s): 1. When is a performance judged ready to present?
2. How do context and the manner in which the musical work is presented influence audience response?
MUSIC – Responding
Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Individuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Essential Question: How do individuals choose music to experience?
Enduring Understanding: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
Essential Question: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question: How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria
Essential Question: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
MUSIC – Connecting
Anchor Standard 10: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical
context to deepen understanding.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing and responding.
Anchor Standard 11: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make music.
Enduring Understanding: Understanding connections to varied contexts and daily life enhances musicians’ creating, performing, and responding
Essential Question: How do the other arts, other disciplines, contexts and daily life inform creating, performing, and responding to music?
MUSIC – Creating
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
Essential Question: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
Essential Question: How do musicians make creative decisions?
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria
Essential Question: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Enduring Understanding: Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication
Essential Question: When is creative work ready to share?
MUSIC – Performing
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
Essential Question: How do performers select repertoire?
Enduring Understanding: Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
Essential Question: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?
Enduring Understanding: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
Essential Question: How do performers interpret musical works?
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
Enduring Understanding: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
Essential Question: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response
Essential Question(s): 1. When is a performance judged ready to present?
2. How do context and the manner in which the musical work is presented influence audience response?
MUSIC – Responding
Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work
Enduring Understanding: Individuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
Essential Question: How do individuals choose music to experience?
Enduring Understanding: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
Essential Question: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
Essential Question: How do we discern the musical creators’ and performers’ expressive intent?
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical work(s) and performance(s) is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria
Essential Question: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
MUSIC – Connecting
Anchor Standard 10: Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical
context to deepen understanding.
Enduring Understanding: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing and responding.
Anchor Standard 11: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make music.
Enduring Understanding: Understanding connections to varied contexts and daily life enhances musicians’ creating, performing, and responding
Essential Question: How do the other arts, other disciplines, contexts and daily life inform creating, performing, and responding to music?