Band - Grade -8
STANDARD	SKILLS and CONCEPTS	VOCABULARY
Standard 1 Singing alone and with others	8.1.2 Sing alone or as part of a group while standing or sitting straight.
Standard 2 Playing an instrument alone and with others	8.2.1 Echo a melodic and rhythmic pattern on an instrument.	Simple Time and Compound Time
	8.2.2 Play a melody while other students play an accompaniment.
	8.2.3 Play an accompaniment to a given melody.
Standard 3 Reading, notating, and interpreting music	8.3.1 Demonstrate the ability to read music notation in compound meter.	6/8, 9/8, 12/8, 7/8, 5/8
	8.3.3 Use appropriate musical terminology when discussing music.	Crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando, rit., dynamics, tempos
Standard 6 Listening to, analyzing, and describing music	8.6.2 Upon listening to several examples, correctly identify the musical events such as crescendo, decrescendo, accelerando, ritardando, piano or forte, and instrumental sounds, using the correct terminology.
	8.6.3 Demonstrate knowledge of meter, rhythm, tonality, chords, and simple harmonic progressions.	Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant
	8.6.5 Identify common elements of rhythm, dynamics, and tone color in several musical examples from various cultures.	African, Oriental, American
	8.6.6 Demonstrate knowledge of instrumental sounds from other cultures.	African, Oriental, American
Standard 8 Understanding music in relation to history and culture	8.8.3 Discuss the characteristics that represent music of different types, styles, and cultures.	Rhythms, instruments, meters
	8.8.4 Discuss the uses of music and musicians within our culture and other world cultures.	Careers, entertainment
	8.8.L1 Discuss the uses of marching bands throughout our society and demonstrate the knowledge of marching while playing a musical instrument.
Standard 9 Evaluating and critiquing music and music performances	8.9.1 Develop a classroom rubric to use while evaluating musical performances.	ISSMA Contest Rubric
	8.9.2 Using a classroom-devised evaluation tool, critique either a performance of your own or of another performer by notating both positive and aspects that could be improved.	Concert and Contest performances