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Fine Arts
The importance of fine arts and its effect on students’ personal and social development has been cited in empirical studies which revealed that when the arts are an integral component of a curriculum, the result is “enhanced learning and achievement as well as positive social outcomes” (Burns, 2003: 05). It is on this premise that the 63 standards for Music and Visual Arts were develop through extensive review of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education, Tennessee Department of Education ,and South Dakota Department of Education Fine Arts Standards. Note, in this subsection, the letter V is used to represent the Visual Arts Standards.
Music
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Area 1: Performance and Production
Music: 1 Demonstrate proper posture, embouchure, hand position and playing position required for artistic mastery of various types of instruments
Music: 2 Identify and produce clear tones, free of tension, sustained and unwavering in pitch
Music: 3 Understand the importance of incorporating tempo changes and a variety of rhythms and meters while performing
Music: 4 Perform all major melodic minor scales, ascending and descending in a variety of rhythmic patterns and articulations
Music: 5 Identify and perform a chromatic scale, ascending and descending in sixteen notes (M.M. quarter notes = 96) throughout the practical range of the instrument
Music: 6 Demonstrate and master dynamic contrast and technical skills as a means of expression
Music: 7 Demonstrate musical phrasing through the use of dynamic emphasis and tempo modification
Music: 8 Successful use and apply ensemble skills
Music: 9 Read sight-read music of varying styles and levels of difficulty
Music: 10 Sight -read music of varying styles and levels of difficulty
Music: 11 Sing a part while other students sing or play contrasting parts
Music: 12 Perform music from a variety of cultures, styles, and historical periods
Music: 13 Describe and improvise a melody to a 12-bar blues progression
Music: 14 Arrange a selection for two or more instruments, using available technology
Music: 15 Identify and repair minor problems of the instrument being studied
Music: 16 Read and write rhythmic patterns in complex meters, demonstrating technical facility and precision
Music: 17 Demonstrate increased learning through a variety of music activities
Context & Music Theory
Music: 18 Research career and vocational options in music, using available technology
Music: 19 Understand and associate aural examples of music with a variety of cultures, styles, and historical periods
Music: 20 Analyze a specific work and discuss how the music elements are used to create expression
Music: 21 Describe, analyze and define, and apply music terms and symbols from materials being studied
Judgment & Criticism
Music: 22 Analyze concepts common to music and other disciplines
Music: 23 Understanding and identify how the characteristic qualities of sound, visual stimuli, other stimuli, movement, and human interrelationships can influence the fine arts
Aesthetics
Music: 24 Evaluate and improve personal performance as compared to an exemplary model
Music: 25 Demonstrate concert etiquette as an active listener
Music: 26 Articulate expressive qualities of music
Performance
Music: 27 Demonstrate proper vocal technique as applied to advance literature
Music: 28 Demonstrate proper vocal techniques
Music: 29 Consistently perform with accurate intonation in solo and ensemble singing
Music: 30 Sing with purity of vowels and clarity of consonants
Music: 31 Sing in a manner reflecting the expressive qualities of music in rehearsal and performance
Music: 32 Perform music written in four or more parts with and without accompaniment
Music: 33 Respond to conducting patterns and interpretive gestures
Music: 34 Sing independently to demonstrate audition and memorization skills
Music: 35 Effectively and efficiently respond to music through movement
Music: 36 Create music through composing improvising and arranging
Knowledge
1. Read and write notation
2. Use a symbol system to sight-read melodic lines in major keys
3. Read and write rhythmic and melodic notation
4. Sight-read an individual voice part in a vocal score
5. Use available technology and related software
6. Evaluate music performances
7. Evaluate and offer constructive suggestions for improvement of personal and group performances
8. Articulate musical preferences through the use of music terminology
9. Describe the relationship between music and the other fine arts and between music and disciplines outside the arts
10. Name and describe the correlation between vocal/choral music and other disciplines
11. Research the responsibilities of careers in music as related to the other fine arts
12. Describe interrelationships between music and other disciplines
Skills
1. Use embellishments, extreme tessitura, and a variety of timbre effects when performing on wind instruments
2. Use four-mallet technique when performing on mallet percussion
3. Use multiple percussion techniques when performing on auxiliary percussion instruments
4. Use timpani technique on four or more drums, tuning all drums in reference to a single pitch and making changes during performance of a piece, using intervallic pitches
5. Vary speeds of vibrato, harmonics, and a variety of timbre effects when performing on stringed instruments
6. Blend instrumental timbres
7. Match dynamic levels, style, and intonation
8. Respond to conducting gestures
9. Use conducting gestures
10. Efficient and effective breathing techniques
Attitudes and Disposition
1. Make informed decisions as a consumer of music
2. Identify opportunities to participate in vocal/choral ensembles in the community
3. Demonstrate knowledge of opportunities for attendance at professional and community concerts
Area 2: Visual Arts
VA: 1 Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes
VA: 2 Demonstrate understanding of the effects of visual structures and functions and reflect upon these effects in their own work
VA: 3 Identify and employ organizational structures and analyze what makes them effective or not effective in the communication of ideas
VA: 4 Understand, select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas
VA: 5 Explain, choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas effectively integrate visual, spatial, and temporal concepts with content to communicate intended meaning in their artworks
VA: 6 Use subjects, themes, and symbols that demonstrate knowledge of contexts, values, and aesthetics that communicate intended meaning in artworks
VA: 7 Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures
VA: 8 Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures
VA: 9 Describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts
VA: 10 Analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art
VA: 11 Reflect upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others
VA: 12 Understand and applying media, techniques, and processes
VA 13: Communicate ideas regularly at a high level of effectiveness in at least one visual arts medium
VA 14: Conceive and create works of visual art that demonstrate an understanding of how the communication of their ideas relates to the media, techniques, and processes
VA 15: Demonstrate the ability to compare two or more perspectives about the use of organizational principles and functions in artwork and to defend personal evaluations of these perspectives
VA 16: Create multiple solutions to specific visual arts problems that demonstrate competence in producing effective relationships between structural choices and artistic functions
VA:17 Analyze and interpret artworks for relationships among form, context, purposes, and critical models
VA: 18: Showing understanding of the work of critics, historians, aestheticians, and artists analyze common characteristics of visual arts evident across time and among cultural/ethnic groups to formulate analyses, evaluations, and interpretations
VA: 19 Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others
VA: 20 Identify intentions of those creating artworks, explore the implications of various purposes, and justify their analyses of purposes in particular works
VA: 21 Describe meanings of artworks by analyzing how specific works are created and how they relate to historical and cultural contexts
VA: 22 Reflect analytically on various interpretations as a means for understanding and evaluating works of visual art
VA: 23 Correlate responses to works of visual art with various techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions
VA: 24 Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines
VA: 25 Compare the materials, technologies, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other arts disciplines as they are used in creation and types of analysis
VA: 26 Compare characteristics of visual arts within a particular historical period or style with ideas issues, or themes in the humanities or sciences
VA: 27 Synthesize the creative and analytical principles and techniques of the visual arts and selected other arts disciplines, the humanities, or the sciences
Knowledge
1. Identify advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas
2. Compare multiple purposes for creating works of art
3. Analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry
4. Describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures
5. Compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context
6. Describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts
7. Evaluate the effectiveness of artworks in terms of organizational structures and functions
8. Describe the origins of specific images and ideas and explain why they are of value in their artwork and in the work of others
9. Evaluate and defend the validity of sources for content and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and images are used in the students’ works and in significant works by others
10. Identify visual arts in relation to history and cultures
11. Differentiate among a variety of historical and cultural contexts in terms of characteristics and purposes of works of art
12. Describe the function and explore the meaning of specific art objects within varied cultures, times, and places
13. Analyze relationships of works of art to one another in terms of history, aesthetics, and Culture
Skills
1. Apply media, techniques, and processes with sufficient skill
2. Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts
3. Choosing and evaluating a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas
4. Reflect on how artworks differ visually, spatially, temporally, and functionally, and describe how these are related to history and culture
5. Apply subjects, symbols, and ideas in their artworks and use the skills gained to solve problems in daily life
6. Select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes them effective or not effective
7. Communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices
Attitudes and Disposition
1. Demonstrate confidence, and sensitivity that their intentions are carried out in their artworks
2. Initiate, define, and solve challenging visual arts problems independently using intellectual skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
3. Defend judgments about the characteristics and structures to accomplish commercial, personal, communal, or other purposes of art
4. Justifying conclusions made in the analysis and using such conclusions to inform their own art making
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