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III. Analyze
- 8th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Music
Demonstrate knowledge of the basic principles of meter, rhythm, tonality, intervals, chords, and harmonic progressions through analysis.
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III. Analyze
- 8th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Music
Analyze the uses of musical elements in aural examples from diverse genres and cultures.
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III. Analyze
- 8th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Music
Identify and describe specific musical elements and events in a given aural example, using appropriate terminology.
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II. Create
- 8th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Music
Use a variety of traditional, nontraditional, and electronic sound sources when composing, arranging, and improvising.
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II. Create
- 8th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Music
Arrange simple pieces for voices or instruments other than those for which pieces were written.
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II. Create
- 8th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Music
Compose short pieces to communicate ideas and/or stories, within defined parameters and using standard notation.
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II. Create
- 8th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Music
Improvise short melodies unaccompanied and over given rhythmic accompaniments, each in a consistent style, meter, and tonality.
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II. Create
- 8th Grade
- Michigan Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Theater Standards
- Music
Improvise melodic embellishments and basic rhythmic and melodic variations on given pentatonic melodies, and melodies in major keys.