Classify by genre or style and by historical periods or culture, unfamiliar but representative aural examples of music and explain [...]

Identify sources of American music genres, trace the evolution of those genres, and cite well-known musicians associated with them.

Identify various roles that musicians perform, cite representative individuals who have functioned in each role, and describe their activities and [...]

Analyze the impact of electronic music media in society and culture.

Explain how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts and [...]

Compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures.

Explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of [...]

Explain how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar [...]

Analyze and consider the use of music and media for the future.

Use the basic physical and chemical properties of the technical aspects of theatre (such as light, color, electricity, paint, and [...]

Communicate directorial choices to a small ensemble for improvised or scripted scenes.

Construct imaginative scripts and collaborate with actors to refine scripts so that story and meaning are conveyed to an audience.

Individually and in ensemble, create and sustain characters that communicate with audiences.

Develop designs that use visual and aural elements to convey environments that support text.

Apply technical knowledge and skills to collaboratively create functional scenery, properties, lighting, sound, costumes, and makeup.

Design stage management, promotional, and business plans.

Analyze the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in dramatic texts from various genre and media.

Compare and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

Analyze a variety of dramatic texts from cultural and historical perspectives to determine production requirements.

Develop multiple interpretations and visual, aural, and multi-media production choices for scripts and production ideas and choose those that are [...]

Continue development of portfolio for senior exit.

Sing and play with expression and technical accuracy a large and varied repertoire of vocal and instrumental literature with a [...]

Sing music written in four parts, with and without accompaniment.

Perform an appropriate part in large and small ensembles, demonstrating well-developed ensemble skills.

Perform music using instruments (traditional and non-traditional) and electronic media.

Perform from an instrumental or vocal score of at least four staves.

Sight read accurately and expressively, music with a moderate level of difficulty.

Improvise stylistically appropriate harmonizing parts.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic variations given pentatonic melodies, and melodies in major and minor keys.

Improvise original melodies over given chord progressions, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.

Compose music in several different styles, demonstrate creativity in using the elements of music for expressive effect.

Arrange pieces for voices or instruments, other than those for which the pieces were written, in ways that preserve or [...]

Compose and arrange music for voices and various acoustic and electronic instruments, demonstrating knowledge of the ranges and traditional usage [...]

Create or adapt music to integrate with other media.

Demonstrate extensive knowledge and use of the technical vocabulary of music.

Analyze aural examples of a varied repertoire of music, representing diverse genres and cultures, by describing the uses of elements [...]

Identify and explain compositional devices and techniques and their purposes, giving examples of other works that make similar uses of [...]

Evaluate the use of music in mixed media environments.

Make informed, critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performances, compositions, arrangements, and improvisations applying specific criteria.

Evaluate a I. Performance, composition, arrangement, or improvisation by comparing it to similar or exemplary models.

Use improvisation to generate movement for choreography.

Through brief dances, demonstrate understanding of structures or forms such as palindrome, theme and variation, rondo, round, as well as [...]

Choreograph a duet demonstrating an understanding of choreographic principles, processes, and structures.

Create a dance that effectively communicates a contemporary social theme.

Create a dance and revise it over time using multi-media equipment, such as slides, camera, video, and computers to articulate [...]

Reflect on and describe how movement choices communicate abstract ideas in dance.

Create a dance and revise it over time, articulating the reasons for artistic decisions, and what was lost and gained [...]

Establish a set of aesthetic criteria and apply it in evaluating their own work and that of others.

Formulate and answer their own aesthetic questions; e.g., what is it that makes a particular dance that dance? How much [...]

Explain how personal experience influences the interpretation of a dance.