5-6

Skills: Listening

Develop musical skills and knowledge

Distinguish among the sounds of common musical instruments  (p. C.7)

6

Skills: Listening

Develop musical skills and knowledge

Identify band, orchestra, instrumental duet, trio quartet and ensemble (p. C.7)

5-6

Concepts: Form

Develop musical skills and knowledge

Improvisation is part of many forms of music (p. C.5)

6

Concepts: Expression

Develop awareness and appreciation of a variety of music, including music of the many cultures represented in Canada

Understand that music has different styles (e.g., blues, jazz, rock, classical, etc.) (p. C.6)

6

Skills:Listening

Develop musical skills and knowledge

Recognize music and some composers of other times, places and cultures
Identify some of the following: theme and variations, ragtime, blues, jazz, rock
(p. C.7)

5-6

Skills: Moving

Develop insights into music through meaningful musical activities; self-expression and creativity

Improvise movements to poems, stories and songs
Move to form in music, like phrases and unlike phrases
Through movement show awareness of changes in tempo, dynamics and mood
Respond to music through movement in an individual manner
 (p. C.8)

Level I

Black Music - Perspective

Understand, evaluate and appreciate a variety of music

Demonstrate, through discussion, an understanding of rhythm and blues, jazz and soul music
Indicate a knowledge of some of the more prominent Black musicians of the concert world
(p. 44)

Level I

Black Music- Elements/Structure

Develop the ability to make aesthetic judgments based on critical listening and analysis of music

Distinguish aurally between ragtime, boogie-woogie, jazz, rhythm and blues and soul music (p. 44)

Level II

Careers in Music - Perspective

Develop awareness of the implications of music in our society with respect to music careers

Identify the vocal or instrumental sound being performed on recordings; discuss performers perceptions of their art; discuss the values of studying and practicing music as a performer (p. 74)

Level II

Music of Canada - Perspective

Develop awareness of the history of music and the implications of music in our society

Understand the contributions of at least three Canadian popular music recording and performing artists (p. 94)
Recognize the contributions of at least three Canadian musicians as world class performers of music (p. 95)

Level III

Artistic Expression - Elements/Structure

Develop the ability to make aesthetic judgments based on critical listening and analysis of music

Identify different types of texture
Evidence increasing awareness of the use of colour to express human emotions
Demonstrate increasing understanding of the efforts of artists to achieve a balance in dominant/secondary features as well as repetition and variety
(pp. 117-118)

Level III

Artistic Expression - Perspective

To provide experiences that will foster the development of self-expression, creativity and communication through music

Differentiate between communication and artistic efforts; demonstrate increasing awareness concerning subjects used by artists; and techniques of expression (p. 117)

Levels 1-3

Theory (Elements and Structures): Focused Listening

Develop an understanding of the elements and structures of music as they apply to music making and listening

Identify by timbre and/or pitch the source of the melody in a given example of music (p. 7)

Level 3

Theory (Elements and Structures): Focused Listening

(as above)

Recognize the use of motifs and themes in a musical example (p. 7)

Levels 2-3

Theory (Elements and Structures): Focused Listening

(as above)

Recognize the ways that different genres such as pop, Classical and jazz, use the elements of music (p. 9)

Level 1

Composition: Cognition & Aural Recognition

Develop the ability to make intellectual and aesthetic judgments based on critical listening and analysis

Demonstrate knowledge of and respond to emotional expression in music (p. 16)

Level 1

Composition: Cognition & Aural Recognition

Develop an understanding of the elements and structures of music as they apply to music making and listening

Demonstrate knowledge and recognition of the use of motifs and motivic development in a variety of musical styles
(p. 16)

Levels 1, 2

World Music

Develop an understanding of the elements and structures of music as they apply to music making and listening

Identify specified musical elements in recorded examples
Discuss the function of timbre and texture in music
(p. 27)

Levels 1, 2

World Music

Develop an understanding of the music of world cultures

Identify similarities and differences between at least four of [a list of] types of music and Sub-Saharan African traditional folk music (list includes jazz) (p. 27)

Single level

Jazz Appreciation

Develop an understanding of the elements and structures of music as they apply to music making and listening

Define and discuss the basic elements and structures of jazz (p. 36)

Single level

Jazz Appreciation

Develop the ability to make intellectual and aesthetic judgments based on critical listening and analysis

Analyze the fusion of music and cultures that collided to give birth to the jazz idiom
Identify characteristics of various stylistic categories and identify aurally selected listening examples
(p. 36)