High School Fine Arts Arizona Standards

Creating

Perform dance studies and compositions that use time and tempo in unpredictable ways. Use internal rhythms and kinetics as phrasing tools.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Investigate a recognized system to document a dance sequence by using words, symbols, or media technologies in order to refine or complete artistic work.

Analyze dance works from a variety of dance genres and styles and explain how recurring patterns of movement and their relationships create well structured and meaningful choreography.

Collaborate in the investigation and development of the choreographic elements, structures and processes to create a dance study. Consider the choreographic intent of the movement.

Connect energy/effort and dynamics to movements by applying them in and through all parts of the body. Develop total body awareness so that movement sequences demonstrate variances of energy/effort and dynamics.

Identify and analyze movement preferences of self and others and explore ways to expand movement possibilities.

Analyze the components of dance and their relationships in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices and provide evidence on how their differences impact communication and intent within a cultural context. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Connecting

Develop artistic and expressive clarity while performing alone and with others. Use varied focus to clarify movement and intent.Establish and break relationships with other dancers and audience as appropriate to the dance.

Apply healthful practices in dance activities including nutrition and injury prevention. Identify anatomical principles that contribute to functional alignment.

Embody body-mind principles to technical dance skills in complex choreography in a variety of dance genres and styles.

Compare two or more dances using artistic criteria to critique artistic expression. Consider societal values and a range of perspectives. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Embody complex anatomical principles to technical dance skills and choreography in a variety of dance genres and styles.

Investigate and develop choreographic elements, structures and processes to create a dance study. Explain the choreographic intent of the movement.

Define personal artistic preferences to critique dance. Consider societal and personal values, and a range of artistic expression. Discuss perspectives with peers and justify views.

Analyze a dance to determine the ideas expressed by the choreographer. Draw connections between one's observations, and cultural and historical influences. Provide evidence to support one's analysis.

Use syncopation and accented movements related to different tempi. Take rhythmic cues from different aspects of accompaniment. Integrate breath phrasing with metric and kinesthetic phrasing.

Analyze and provide evidence for how the components of dance contribute to artistic expression. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Refine the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating choreographic devices, dance structures/forms, and artistic criteria using self reflection and feedback from others. Document choices made in the revision process and justify how the refinements support artistic.

Demonstrate fluency of choreographic elements, structures and processes. Express a personal/collective voice in designing and choreographing original dance compositions. Justify choreographic choices and explain how they are used to support artistry.

Apply body-mind principles to technical dance skills while executing complex spatial, rhythmic and dynamic sequences and choreography.

Analyze the artistic expression of a dance. Discuss insights using evaluative criteria and dance terminology.

Refine and complete artistic work

Analyze a dance to determine the ideas expressed by the choreographer. Compare one's own interpretation with other interpretations. Provide evidence to support one's analysis.

Analyze the use of components of dance and their relationships in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices within cultural context to communicate intent. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Analyze and interpret how the components of dance contribute to artistic expression across different genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Provide evidence of your findings. Use genre specific dance terminology.

Work collaboratively to produce dance concerts in a variety of venues and design and organize the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance works in each of the venues, with regards to the environment, production elements, and audience response.

Embody technical dance skills (for example, functional alignment, coordination, balance, core support, clarity of movement, weight shifts, flexibility/range of motion) to execute complex dance movements, sequences, and choreography in a variety of genres and styles.

Develop creative process strategies that consider complex relationships of movement components and/or diverse choreographic sources for a dance composition (e.g. improvisational approaches).

Choreograph a dance study that uses ideas and themes as motivation. Justify how the movement supports the artistic intent.

Identify the artistic intent of a dance by manipulating choreographic devices and dance structures/forms based on established artistic criteria and feedback from others. Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision process.

Analyze dance works and provide examples of recurring dance sequences and their relationships that create well-structured and meaningful choreography.

Clarify the artistic intent of a dance by refining choreographic processes and dance structures/forms, collaboratively or independently using established artistic criteria, self-reflection and the feedback of others. Analyze and evaluate impact of choices made in the revision.

Work collaboratively to produce a dance on a stage or in an alternative performance venue and plan the production elements that would be necessary to fulfill the artistic intent of the dance.

Research and compare an aspect of the cross-cultural, social or historical development and/or the dance elements of two or more dance genres or styles. Discuss how these findings reinforced or changed personal and collective views and understandings. Apply the findings to a project. Document the process of investigation and application.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Enhance performance using a broad repertoire of strategies for dynamic projection. Develop a professional portfolio (resume, head shot, etc.). Document the rehearsal and performance process with fluency in professional dance terminology and production terminology.

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Demonstrate performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Post-performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances.Document the rehearsal and performance process and evaluate methods and strategies using dance terminology and production terminology.

Research an aspect of the cultural, social or historical development of a dance genre or style, and/or the dance elements. Discuss how these findings reinforced or changed personal and collective views and understandings. Apply the findings to a project. Document the process of investigation and application.

Collaborate in investigating and evaluating the design and execution of production elements that would intensify and heighten the artistic intent of a dance performed on a stage, in a different venue, or for different audiences.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Identify, analyze, and transform movement preferences/salient characteristics of self and/or others to expand movement possibilities and take risks to discover unexpected solutions.

Apply recognized systems of dance documentation and symbol systems to analyze and evaluate the artistry of a dance and apply findings to refine during the creative process.

Modulate dynamics and develop effort movement phrasing to clearly express intent while performing dance sequences and choreography. Perform movement sequences expressively using a broad dynamic range and employ dynamic skills for establishing relationships with other dancers and projecting to the audience.

Explore a variety of stimuli for inspiring movement to develop an original dance sequence or dance study. Analyze the process and the relationship between the stimuli and the movement.

Analyze recurring dance sequences and their relationships within a dance in context of artistic intent and structure.

Utilize various approaches to creative processes that consider relationships of movement components and/or diverse choreographic sources for a dance study (e.g. improvisational approaches).

Develop partner and ensemble skills that enable contrasting level changes while maintaining a sense of spatial awareness. Develop spatial clarity while performing sequences and transitions between sequences. Establish and break relationships with others as appropriate to the choreography.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Responding

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Provide evidence on how dance communicates aesthetic and cultural values in a variety of genres, styles, or cultural movement practices. Use genre-specific dance terminology.

Explore various approaches to creative processes that consider relationships of movement components and/or diverse choreographic sources for a dance study (e.g. improvisational approaches).

Synthesize content generated from various stimuli to choreograph a fully developed dance study or dance composition using original or codified movement.

Modulate time factors for artistic interest and expressive acuity. Demonstrate time complexity in phrasing with and without musical accompaniment. Use multiple and complex rhythms (for example, contrapuntal and/or polyrhythmic). Work with and against rhythm of accompaniment or sound environments.

Develop the dance literacy skills of dance observation, writing and critique, understanding history and culture, implementing processes of evaluation, recognizing meaning and values of dance experiences, engaging in dialogue, contributing knowledge, and utilizing technology and symbol systems in one's learning.

Perform movement sequences by applying energy/effort and dynamics. Vary energy/effort and dynamics over the length of a sequence and transition smoothly out of the sequence and into the next sequence, paying close attention to its movement initiation and energy/effort.

Apply developed dance literacy skills of dance observation, writing and critique, understanding history and culture, implementing processes of evaluation, recognizing meaning and values of dance experiences, engaging in dialogue, contributing knowledge, and utilizing technology and symbol systems in one's learning.

Identify individual movement preferences and explore ways to expand movement possibilities.

Review choreography developed over time with respect to its content and context and its relationship to one's personal perspectives. Reflect upon and analyze the components that contributed to changes in one's personal growth.

Identify and apply dance movement principles such as breath and core support when performing dance sequences in a variety of genres. Identify body patterning concepts.

Synthesize content generated from multi-faceted stimuli to choreograph a sophisticated and innovative dance composition. Experiment and take risks to discover a personal voice to communicate artistic intent.

Document a dance as a tool to refine work during the creative process.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Evaluate how movement principles such as breath and core support improve technical performance. Identify how somatic practices contribute to greater body and movement awareness.

Perform complex movement sequences and choreography integrating somatic practices and and movement principles.

Choreograph a dance study that expresses and communicates an idea or feeling. Discuss the effect of the movement choices.

Choreograph a dance based on a selected theme. Articulate the artistic intent and consider how the meaning drawn by the audience may differ.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Dance alone and with others with spatial intention. Expand partner and ensemble skills to greater ranges and skill level. Execute complex floor and air sequences with others while maintaining relationships through focus and intentionality.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Compare different dances and discuss their intent and artistic expression. Provide evidence on how the relationships among the components of dance enhance meaning and support the intent using genre-specific dance terminology.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Apply anatomical principles and healthful practices to a range of technical dance skills for achieving fluency of movement. Follow a personal nutrition plan that supports health for everyday life.

Integrate developed dance literacy skills to contribute in meaningful and positive ways to one's culture: dance observation, writing and critique, understanding history and culture, implementing processes of evaluation, recognizing meaning and values of dance experiences, engaging in dialogue, contributing knowledge, and utilizing technology and symbol systems in one's learning.

Collaborate to research and compare multiple aspects of the cross-cultural, social or historical development and/or dance elements of two or more dance genres or styles. Compare and synthesize contrasting viewpoints and identify the tensions between them. Apply the findings to a collaborative project, and document the process of investigation and application.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Demonstrate leadership qualities (for example commitment, dependability, responsibility, and cooperation) when preparing for performances. Model performance etiquette and performance practices during class, rehearsal and performance. Implement performance strategies to enhance projection. Post-performance, accept notes from choreographer and apply corrections to future performances. Document the rehearsal and performance process and evaluate methods and strategies using dance terminology and production terminology.

Performing

Intermediate: Identify and explain the roles and impact music plays in one's life and the lives of others. Intermediate: Explain reasons for selecting music citing connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Proficient: Explain the criteria used when selecting a varied repertoire of music for individual or small group performances that include melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns).

Intermediate: Explain the influence of experiences and contexts (personal, social, or cultural) on interest in and the evaluation of a varied repertoire of music.

Proficient: Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of improvisations, compositions (forms such as theme and variation or 12-bar blues) and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns).

Intermediate: Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, and identify practice strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Intermediate: Describe how the way that the elements of music are manipulated and knowledge of the context (social and cultural) inform the response.

Novice: Identify and describe how interest, experiences, and contexts (personal or social) effect the evaluation of music.

Connecting

Advanced: Demonstrate and justify how the structural characteristics function within a variety of musical selections, and distinguish how context (social, cultural, and historical) and creative decisions inform the response.

Accomplished: Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of compositions (forms such as rounded binary or rondo), improvisations, accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies.

Accomplished: Analyze how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts

Performing

Proficient: Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of improvisations, compositions (forms such as theme and variation or 12-bar blues), and three-or-more chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns).

Advanced: Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for a collection of compositions (representing a variety of forms and styles), improvisations in several different styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies.

Accomplished: Explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, context (personal, social, and cultural), and (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and varied researched sources.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Advanced: Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of compositions (representing a variety of forms and styles), improvisations in a variety of styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies.

Accomplished: Perform final versions of compositions (forms such as rounded binary or rondo), improvisations, accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Accomplished: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Proficient: Develop and apply teacher-provided and established criteria based on personal preference, analysis, and context (personal, social, and cultural) to evaluate individual and small group musical selections for listening.

Proficient: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Accomplished: Apply personally-developed and established criteria based on research, personal preference, analysis, interpretation, expressive intent, and musical qualities to evaluate contrasting individual and small group musical selections for listening.

Novice: Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Novice: Demonstrate and describe reasons for selecting music, based on characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, or personal experience.

Advanced: Identify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, and historical) in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance programs that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Proficient: Identify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, or historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns).

Accomplished: Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of compositions (forms such as rounded binary or rondo), improvisations, accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies.

Refine and complete artistic work

Novice: Share final versions of simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies, demonstrating an understanding of how to develop and organize personal musical ideas.

Novice: Identify and discuss the roles and impact music plays in one's life and the lives of others. Novice: Identify reasons for selecting music based on connection to interest, and purpose or context.

Advanced: Justify how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Novice: Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments is selected, based on personal interest, music reading skills, and technical skill, as well as the context of the performances.

Intermediate: Demonstrate and describe in interpretations an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments

Proficient: Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Proficient: Explain and analyze how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Accomplished: Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions (forms such as rounded binary or rondo), improvisations, accompaniment patterns in a variety of styles, and harmonizations for given melodies.

Novice: Identify prominent melodic and harmonic characteristics in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, including some based on reading standard notation.

Proficient: Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for improvisations, compositions (forms such as theme and variation or 12-bar blues), and three-or-more-chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming and finger picking patterns).

Proficient: Develop and apply criteria to critique individual and small group performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns), and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Intermediate: Share final versions of melodies (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms) and two-to-three- chord accompaniments for given melodies, demonstrating an understanding of how to develop and organize personal musical ideas.

Proficient: Perform final versions of improvisations, compositions (forms such as theme and variation or 12-bar blues), and three-or-more-chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns), demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Novice: Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Accomplished: Perform with expression and technical accuracy, in individual and small group performances, a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of styles, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, and historical).

Novice: Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, and apply practice strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Novice: Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, referring to the elements of music, context (personal or social), and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Intermediate: Identify and explain how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Advanced: Develop and justify evaluations of a variety of individual and small group musical selections for listening based on personally developed and established criteria, personal decision making, and knowledge and understanding of context.

Proficient: Explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, context (personal, social, and cultural), and (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and outside sources.

Novice: Identify and explain how context (e.g. social, cultural, historical) can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Proficient: Describe in interpretations the context (social, cultural, or historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns).

Advanced: Perform with expression and technical accuracy, in individual and small group performances, a varied repertoire for programs of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, and historical).

Proficient: Explain and analyze how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts

Accomplished: Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the music and the specified purpose and context.

Accomplished: Explain how the analysis of the structures and context (social, cultural, and historical) of contrasting musical selections inform the response.

Accomplished: Identify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, and historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of styles.

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Intermediate: Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of melodies (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms) and two-to-three- chord accompaniments for given melodies.

Novice: Demonstrate and describe in interpretations an understanding of the context and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments.

Proficient: Compare passages in musical selections and explain how the elements of music and context (social, cultural, or historical) inform the response.

Creating

Novice: Perform with expression and technical accuracy in individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments, demonstrating understanding of the audience and the context.

Advanced: Select, develop, and use standard notation and audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of compositions (representing a variety of forms and styles), improvisations in several different styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies.

Accomplished: Develop and apply criteria to critique individual and small group performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of styles, and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Advanced: Explain and present interpretations that demonstrate and describe the context (social, cultural, and historical) and an understanding of the creator's intent in repertoire for varied programs of music that include melodies, repertoire pieces, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Accomplished: Develop and apply criteria for selecting a varied repertoire of music for individual and small group performances that include melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of styles.

Advanced: Perform final versions of a collection of compositions (representing a variety of forms and styles), improvisations in several different styles, and stylistically appropriate harmonizations for given melodies, demonstrating technical skill in applying principles of composition/improvisation and originality in developing and organizing musical ideas.

Accomplished: Analyze how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Advanced: Analyze how music and other art forms involve and are affected by one's knowledge outside the arts

Intermediate: Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for melodies (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms) and two-to-three- chord accompaniments for given melodies.

Intermediate: Identify prominent melodic, harmonic, and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, or historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, including some based on reading standard notation.

Advanced: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Advanced: Use research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.

Proficient: Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Intermediate: Perform with expression and technical accuracy in individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical).

Advanced: Develop and apply criteria for selecting a varied repertoire for a program of music for individual and small group performances that include melodies, repertoire pieces, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Proficient: Perform with expression and technical accuracy, in individual and small group performances, a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country strumming, finger picking patterns), demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical).

Accomplished: Explain in interpretations the context (social, cultural, and historical) and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, improvisations, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of styles.

Responding

Intermediate: Identify and explain how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts

Advanced: Establish and justify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections by comparing and synthesizing varied researched sources, including reference to examples from other art forms.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Intermediate: Explain reasons for selecting music citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Accomplished: Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the specified purpose and context.

Advanced: Select, describe, and compare a variety of individual and small group musical programs from varied cultures, genres, and historical periods.

Intermediate: Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments is selected, based on personal interest, music reading skills, and technical skill (citing technical challenges that need to be addressed), as well as the context of the performances.

Novice: Select, develop, and use standard notation or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies (such as two phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Intermediate: Identify and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, context, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Intermediate: Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of melodies (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms) and two-to-three-chord accompaniments for given melodies.

Advanced: Develop and apply criteria, including feedback from multiple sources, to critique varied programs of music repertoire (melodies, repertoire pieces, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles) selected for individual and small group performance, and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Novice: Identify and explain how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts (e.g.science, social studies, math, language arts).

Novice: Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, the use of repetition, similarities and contrasts in musical selections and how these and knowledge of the context (social or cultural) inform the response.

Refine and modify media artworks, honing aesthetic quality and intentionally accentuating stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of personal goals and preferences.

Analyze the intent, meanings, and influence of a variety of media artworks, based on personal, societal, historical, and cultural contexts.

Independently evaluate, compare, and integrate improvements in presenting media artworks, considering personal to global impacts (such as new understandings that were gained by artist and audience).

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Design the presentation and distribution of collections of media artworks, considering combinations of artworks, formats, and audiences.

Critically investigate and ethically interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering ethics, media literacy, digital identity, and artist/audience interactivity.

Curate, design, and execute the presentation and distribution of media artworks for intentional impacts, through a variety of contexts (such as markets and venues).

Form and apply defensible evaluations in the constructive and systematic critique of media artworks and production processes.

Examine in depth and demonstrate the relationships of media arts ideas and works to various purposes, values, cultures, and contexts (such as markets, systems, propaganda, and truth).

Explain and demonstrate the use of media artworks to expand meaning and knowledge, and create cultural experiences (such as learning and sharing through online environments).

Evaluate and implement improvements in presenting media artworks, considering personal and local impacts (such as the benefits for self and others).

Demonstrate and expound on the use of media artworks to accomplish new meaning, knowledge, and impactful cultural experiences.

Demonstrate the skillful adaptation and combination of tools, styles, techniques, and interactivity to achieve specific expressive goals in the production of a variety of media artworks.

Analyze the intent, meanings and impacts of diverse media artworks, considering complex factors of context and bias.

Independently utilize and adapt tools, styles, and systems in standard, innovative, and experimental ways in the production of complex media artworks.

Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience (such as experiential design).

Producing

Evaluate media art works and production processes at decisive stages, using teacher-identified criteria, and considering context and artistic goals.

Synthesize various arts, media arts forms and academic content into unified media arts productions that retain artistic fidelity across platforms (such as transdisciplinary productions).

Analyze and synthesize the qualities and relationships of the components and audience impact in a variety media artworks.

Critically evaluate and effectively interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts, considering ethics, media literacy, social media, virtual worlds, and digital identity.

Independently develop rigorous evaluations of, and strategically seek feedback for media artworks and production processes, considering complex goals and factors.

Explain and demonstrate the use of media artworks to synthesize new meaning and knowledge, and reflect and form cultural experiences (such as new connections between themes and ideas, local and global networks, and personal influence).

Demonstrate the relationships of media arts ideas and works to personal and global purposes, values, cultures, and contexts, through relevant and impactful media artworks.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Apply aesthetic criteria in developing, proposing, and refining artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering original inspirations, goals, and presentation context.

Analyze the intent, meanings, and reception of a variety of media artworks, focusing on personal and cultural contexts.

Survey an exemplary range of media artworks, analyzing methods for managing audience experience, creating intention and persuasion through multimodal perception, and systemic communications.

Evaluate and implement improvements in presenting media artworks, considering personal, local, and social impacts (such as changes that occurred for people, or to a situation).

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Demonstrate adaptation and innovation through the combination of tools, techniques and content, in standard and innovative ways, to communicate intent in the production of media artworks.

Analyze how a variety of media artworks manage audience experience and create intention through multimodal perception; and reflect analysis in production of student work.

Responding

Synthesize content, processes, and components to express compelling purpose, story, emotion, or ideas in complex media arts productions, demonstrating mastery of associated principles. (Such as hybridization.)

Employ mastered artistic, design, technical, and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks.

Develop and refine a teacher-determined range of creative and adaptive innovation techniques (such as design thinking, and risk taking) in addressing identified challenges and constraints within and through media arts productions.

Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and academic content into unified media arts productions that retain thematic integrity and stylistic continuity (such as transmedia productions).

Refine and complete artistic work

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Critically investigate and strategically interact with legal, technological, systemic, and vocational contexts of media arts.

Use teacher-selected generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem solve in media arts creation processes.

Fluently employ mastered creative and innovative adaptability in formulating lines of inquiry and solutions, to address complex challenges within and through media arts productions.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Analyze and synthesize the qualities and relationships of the components in a variety of media artworks, and feedback on how they impact audience.

Access, evaluate, and integrate personal and external resources to inform the creation of original media artworks (such as experiences, interests, and cultural experiences).

Intentionally and consistently refine and elaborate elements and components to form impactful expressions in media artworks, directed at specific purposes, audiences, and contexts.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Demonstrate effective use of creative and adaptive innovation techniques (such as iterative design, and responsive use of failure) to address sophisticated challenges within and through media arts productions.

Apply a personal aesthetic in designing, testing, and refining original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production strategies for media arts productions, considering artistic intentions, constraints of resources, and presentation context.

Demonstrate effective command of artistic, design, technical and soft skills in managing and producing media artworks.

Demonstrate progression in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, as a result of selecting and fulfilling specified roles in the production of a variety of media artworks.

Analyze how a broad range of media artworks manage audience experience, create intention and persuasion through multimodal perception.

Analyze the qualities of and relationships between the components, style, and preferences communicated by media artworks and artists.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Generate ideas, goals, and solutions for original media artworks through application of focused creative processes (such as divergent thinking and experimenting).

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Synthesize internal and external resources to enhance the creation of persuasive media artworks (such as cultural connections, introspection, research, and exemplary works).

Consolidate production processes to demonstrate deliberate choices in organizing and integrating content and stylistic conventions in media arts production, demonstrating understanding of associated principles. (Such as continuity and juxtaposition.)

Creating

Curate and design the presentation and distribution of collections of media artworks through a variety of contexts (such as mass audiences, and physical and virtual channels).

Refine and elaborate aesthetic elements and technical components to intentionally form impactful expressions in media artworks for specific purposes, intentions, audiences and contexts.

Independently and proactively access relevant and qualitative resources to inform the creation of clear and convincing media artworks.

Connecting

Consolidate production processes to demonstrate deliberate choices in organizing and integrating content and stylistic conventions in media arts productions, demonstrating understanding of associated principles. (Such as emphasis, texture and tone.)

Integrate aesthetic principles with a variety of generative methods to fluently form original ideas, solutions, and innovations in media arts creation processes.

Integrate a sophisticated personal aesthetic and knowledge of systems processes in forming, testing, and proposing original artistic ideas, prototypes, and production frameworks, considering complex constraints of goals, time, resources, and personal limitations.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Demonstrate and explain how media artworks and ideas relate to various purposes, values, cultures, and contexts (such as social trends, power, equality, and personal/cultural identity).

Refine and complete artistic work

Proficient: Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions or improvisations using digital tools.

Accomplished: Explain and support an interpretation of the expressive intent of musical selections based on treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, and purpose.

Accomplished: Develop and implement rehearsal strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of prepared and improvised performances in a varied repertoire of music.

Accomplished: Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the specified purpose and context.

Advanced: Examine, evaluate and critique how context, theoretical and structural aspects of the music and digital media/tools inform and influence prepared and improvised performances.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Accomplished: Connect the influence of the treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, context, purpose, and other art forms to the expressive intent of musical works.

Proficient: Cite reasons for choosing music based on the use of the elements of music, digital and electronic aspects, and connections to interest or purpose.

Accomplished: Develop and implement varied strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisations.

Accomplished: Using digital tools, demonstrate technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, and genres.

Advanced: Develop and implement varied strategies and apply appropriate criteria to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisations.

Proficient: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music created utilizing electronic technology.

Proficient: Evaluate music using criteria based on analysis, interpretation, digital and electronic features, and personal interests.

Proficient: Demonstrate an understanding of the context of music through prepared and improvised performances.

Proficient: Explain and analyze how music is affected by knowledge outside the arts

Accomplished: Describe and demonstrate how context, theoretical and structural aspects of the music and digital media/tools inform and influence prepared and improvised performances.

Advanced: Select, develop, and organize multiple melodic, rhythmic and harmonic ideas to develop into a larger work that exhibits unity, variety, complexity, and coherence.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Proficient: Demonstrate how understanding the context, expressive challenges, and use of digital tools in a varied repertoire of music influence prepared or improvised performances.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Proficient: Explain and analyze how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Advanced: Justify how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Creating

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Advanced: Develop and apply criteria to select varied programs to study and perform based on interest, an understanding of the theoretical and structural characteristics, as well as expressive challenges in the music, and the performer's technical and technological skill.

Advanced: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music created utilizing electronic technology.

Accomplished: Select and critique contrasting musical works, defending opinions based on manipulations of the elements of music, digital and electronic aspects, and the purpose and context of the works.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Accomplished: Share compositions and improvisations that demonstrate an accomplished level of musical and technological craftsmanship including the development and organization of musical ideas.

Accomplished: Demonstrate an understanding of the expressive intent when connecting with an audience through prepared and improvised performances.

Proficient: Select melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas to develop into a larger work using digital tools and resources.

Accomplished: Select melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas to develop into a larger work that exhibits unity and variety using tools.

Proficient: Describe how context, structural aspects of the music, and digital media/tools inform prepared and improvised performances.

Advanced: Demonstrate and justify how an analysis of the structural characteristics, context, and technological and creative decisions, informs interest in and response to the music.

Advanced: Demonstrate an ability to connect with audience members before, and engaging with and responding to them during prepared and improvised performances.

Advanced: Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, context, and integration of digital technologies in a varied repertoire of music informs and influences prepared and improvised performances and their ability to connect with audiences.

Accomplished: Develop and apply criteria to select a varied repertoire to study and perform based on interest; an understanding of theoretical and structural characteristics of the music; and the performer's technical and technological skill.

Accomplished: Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, context, and use of digital tools and resources in a varied repertoire of music influences prepared or improvised performances and performers' ability to connect with audiences.

Performing

Advanced: Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions and improvisations that incorporate digital tools, resources, and systems.

Proficient: Share compositions and improvisations that demonstrate an proficient level of musical and technological craftsmanship including the development and organization of musical ideas.

Accomplished: Apply criteria to evaluate music based on analysis, interpretation, artistic intent, digital, electronic, and analog features, and musical qualities.

Connecting

Accomplished: Explain how an analysis of the structure, context, and technological aspects of the music informs the response.

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Advanced: Develop and justify the evaluation of a variety of music based on established and personally-developed criteria, digital, electronic and analog features, and understanding of purpose and context.

Advanced: Apply appropriate criteria as well as feedback from multiple sources and develop and implement varied strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of prepared and improvised performances in varied programs of music.

Advanced: Select, describe and compare a variety of musical selections based on characteristics and knowledge of the music, understanding of digital and electronic aspects, and the purpose and context of the works.

Accomplished: Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions and improvisations using digital tools and resources.

Advanced: Integrating digital and analog tools, demonstrate an understanding and attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities of the music in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, genres, and historical periods.

Proficient: Identify and implement rehearsal strategies to improve the technical and expressive aspects of prepared and improvised performances in a varied repertoire of music.

Accomplished: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music created utilizing electronic technology.

Advanced: Examine, cite research and multiple sources to support an interpretation of the expressive intent of musical selections based on treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, and purpose.

Advanced: Use research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.

Proficient: Drawing on feedback from teachers and peers, develop and implement strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisations.

Accomplished: Analyze how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Proficient: Explain how knowledge of the structure (repetition, similarities, contrasts), technological aspects, and purpose of the music informs the response.

Advanced: Examine, cite research and multiple sources to connect the influence of the treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, context, purpose, and other art forms to the expressive intent of musical works.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Proficient: Using digital tools, demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Proficient: Develop and explain the criteria used for selecting a varied repertoire of music based on interest, music reading skills, and an understanding of the performer's technical and technological skill.

Proficient: Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Advanced: Share compositions and improvisations that demonstrate an advanced level of musical and technological craftsmanship including the development and organization of musical ideas.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Responding

Proficient: Explain an interpretation of the expressive intent of musical selections based on treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, and purpose.

Accomplished: Apply teacher-provided or personally developed criteria to select music that expresses personal experiences and interests, moods, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in simple or moderately complex forms, and describe and defend the choices as models for composition.

Advanced: Identify and select specific sections, movements, or entire works that express personal experiences and interests, moods, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in moderately complex or complex forms.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Accomplished: Describe and demonstrate how sounds and musical ideas can be used to represent sonic events, memories, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines.

Advanced: Use research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when creating music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.

Proficient: Identify and describe the development of sounds or short musical ideas in drafts of music within simple forms (such as one-part, cyclical, or binary).

Performing

Accomplished: Explain the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected music and performances, demonstrating understanding of music theory as well as compositional techniques and procedures.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Proficient: Identify and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of multiple works.

Accomplished: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Advanced: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Accomplished: Identify and select specific passages, sections, or movements in musical works that express personal experiences and interests, moods, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in simple forms (such as binary, ternary, rondo) or moderately complex forms.

Advanced: Explain how compositions are appropriate for a variety of audiences and contexts, and how this will shape future compositions.

Proficient: Analyze how the elements of music (including form) of selected works relate to style and mood, and explain the implications for rehearsal or performance.

Advanced: Using established criteria and feedback, identify the ways in which performances use compositional techniques and convey the formal design, style, and historical/cultural context of the works.

Proficient: Identify, describe, and apply teacher-provided criteria to assess and refine the technical and expressive aspects of evolving drafts leading to final versions.

Accomplished: Assemble and organize multiple sounds or musical ideas to create initial expressive statements of selected sonic events, memories, images, concepts, texts, or storylines.

Proficient: Explain how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical composition.

Proficient: Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying repetition and variation within the form.

Accomplished: Analyze aurally and/or by reading the scores of musical works the elements of music (including form), compositional techniques and procedures, relating them to style, mood, and context; and explain how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and/or listener.

Accomplished: Explain how compositions are appropriate for both audience and context, and how this will shape future compositions.

Accomplished: Describe and explain the development of sounds and musical ideas in drafts of music within a variety of simple or moderately complex forms (such as binary, rondo, or ternary).

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Accomplished: Identify and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of varied works.

Accomplished: Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying the form, repetition and variation within the form, and the style and historical or cultural context of the work.

Advanced: Develop interpretations of works based on an understanding of the use of elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, style, function, and context, explaining and justifying how the interpretive choices reflect the creators' intent.

Advanced: Describe and demonstrate multiple ways in which sounds and musical ideas can be used to represent extended sonic experiences or abstract ideas.

Accomplished: Share music through the use of notation, solo or group performance, or technology, and demonstrate and describe how the elements of music and compositional techniques have been employed to realize expressive intent.

Proficient: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Creating

Proficient: Analyze aurally the elements of music (including form) of musical works, relating them to style, mood, and context, and describe how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and/or listener.

Proficient: Apply teacher-provided criteria to select music that expresses a personal experience, mood, visual image, or storyline in simple forms (such as onepart, cyclical, binary), and describe the choices as models for composition.

Accomplished: Develop interpretations of works based on an understanding of the use of elements of music, style, mood, function, and context, explaining and supporting how the interpretive choices reflect the creators' intent.

Proficient: Identify how compositions are appropriate for an audience or context, and how this will shape future compositions.

Advanced: Justify how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical composition.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Responding

Advanced: Evaluate the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected music and performances, demonstrating understanding of theoretical concepts and complex compositional techniques and procedures.

Advanced: Identify, compare, and implement strategies for improving the technical and expressive aspects of multiple contrasting works.

Advanced: Develop, justify and defend interpretations of varied works, demonstrating an understanding of the composers' intent by citing the use of elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, and the style/genre and context of each work.

Advanced: Apply researched or personally developed criteria to select music that expresses personal experiences and interests, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines in moderately complex or complex forms, and describe and justify the choice as models for composition.

Proficient: Develop and explain interpretations of varied works, demonstrating an understanding of the composers' intent by citing technical and expressive aspects as well as the style/genre of each work.

Proficient: Identify and select specific excerpts, passages, or sections in musical works that express a personal experience, mood, visual image, or storyline in simple forms (such as one-part, cyclical, binary).

Advanced: Describe a variety of possible contexts and mediums for presenting personal works, and explain and compare how each could impact the success of the final composition and presentation.

Proficient: Describe the effectiveness of the technical and expressive aspects of selected music and performances, demonstrating understanding of fundamentals of music theory.

Proficient: Using established criteria and feedback, identify the way(s) in which performances convey the elements of music, style, and mood.

Advanced: Assemble and organize multiple sounds or extended musical ideas to create initial expressive statements of selected extended sonic experiences or abstract ideas.

Proficient: Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Connecting

Proficient: Assemble and organize sounds or short musical ideas to create initial expressions of selected experiences, moods, images, or storylines.

Proficient: Develop interpretations of works based on an understanding of the use of elements of music, style, and mood, explaining how the interpretive choices reflect the creators' intent.

Accomplished: Identify, describe, and apply selected teacher-provided or personally-developed criteria to assess and refine the technical and expressive aspects of evolving drafts leading to final versions.

Accomplished: Develop and support interpretations of varied works, demonstrating an understanding of the composers' intent by citing the use of elements of music (including form), compositional techniques, and the style/genre and context of each work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Proficient: Share music through the use of notation, performance, or technology, and demonstrate how the elements of music have been employed to realize expressive intent.

Advanced: Analyze how music and other art forms involve and are affected by one's knowledge outside the arts

Accomplished: Analyze how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical composition.

Advanced: Analyze aurally and/or by reading the scores of musical works the elements of music (including form), compositional techniques and procedures, relating them to aesthetic effectiveness, style, mood, and context; and explain how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and/or listener.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Proficient: Share live or recorded performances of works (both personal and others'), and explain how the elements of music are used to convey intent.

Accomplished: Using established criteria and feedback, identify the ways in which performances convey the formal design, style, and historical/cultural context of the works.

Accomplished: Describe the selected contexts and performance mediums for presenting personal works, and explain why they successfully impact the final composition and presentation.

Advanced: Share music through the use of notation, solo or group performance, or technology, and demonstrate and explain how the elements of music, compositional techniques and processes have been employed to realize expressive intent.

Advanced: Analyze and demonstrate the development of sounds and extended musical ideas in drafts of music within a variety of moderately complex or complex forms.

Accomplished: Analyze how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts.

Accomplished: Share live or recorded performances of works (both personal and others'), and explain how the elements of music and compositional techniques are used to convey intent.

Accomplished: Analyze how the elements of music (including form) of selected works relate to the style, function, and context, and explain the implications for rehearsal and performance.

Refine and complete artistic work

Advanced: Research, identify, explain, and apply personally developed criteria to assess and refine the technical and expressive aspects of evolving drafts leading to final versions.

Proficient: Describe the given context and performance medium for presenting personal works, and how they impact the final composition and presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Advanced: Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying the form, repetition and variation within the form, compositional techniques, and the style and historical or cultural context of the work.

Accomplished: Apply criteria to plan music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the specified purpose and context.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Proficient: Explain how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts

Proficient: Describe how sounds and short musical ideas can be used to represent personal experiences, moods, visual images, and/or storylines.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Advanced: Share live or recorded performances of works (both personal and others'), and explain and/or demonstrate understanding of how the expressive intent of the music is conveyed.

Advanced: Analyze how the elements of music (including form), and compositional techniques of selected works relate to the style, function, and context, and explain and support the analysis and its implications for rehearsal and performance.

Novice: Use peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Novice: Identify and discuss the roles and impact music plays in one's life and the lives of others.

Intermediate: Identify and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Intermediate: Compose and improvise ideas for melodies and rhythmic passages based on characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Intermediate: Use repertoire to demonstrate a developing understanding of various musical structure and context in repertoire performed.

Novice: Compose and improvise melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that reflect characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Accomplished: Explain how the analysis of structures and contexts inform the response to music.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Intermediate: Use feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.

Novice: Identify reasons for selecting music based on connection to interest, and purpose or context.

Accomplished: Demonstrate mastery of the technical demands of the music in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire representing diverse cultures, styles, genres, and historical periods.

Proficient: Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, and genres.

Novice: Identify technical accuracy in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Novice: Use self-reflection to identify technical challenges in a varied repertoire of music.

Proficient: Evaluate works and performances based on personally- or collaboratively developed criteria, including analysis of the structure and context.

Intermediate: Share personally-developed melodies and rhythmic passages individually or as an ensemble that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Intermediate: Explain reasons for selecting music citing characteristics found in the music.

Accomplished: Use feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances and develop effective rehearsal strategies.

Intermediate: Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and collaboratively-developed criteria.

Proficient: Explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and personal research.

Accomplished: Analyze how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts.

Advanced: Develop and apply criteria to select varied programs to study and perform based on an understanding of theoretical and structural characteristics and expressive challenges in the music, the technical skill of the individual or ensemble, and the purpose and context of the performance.

Advanced: Based on an understanding of the theoretical and structural characteristics of music, select a varied repertoire to study/perform

Performing

Intermediate: Explain the influence of experiences, analysis, and context on interest in and evaluation of music.

Advanced: Demonstrate an understanding and mastery of the technical demands of the music through prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire representing diverse cultures, styles, genres, and historical periods in multiple types of ensembles.

Intermediate: Explain reasons for selecting music citing connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Novice: Identify and describe the effect of interest, experience, analysis, and context on the evaluation of music.

Proficient: Demonstrate an understanding of expressive intent by connecting with an audience through prepared performances.

Proficient: Evaluate and refine draft melodies, rhythmic passages, arrangements, and improvisations based on established criteria, including the extent to which they address identified purposes.

Proficient: Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through audio or video recording and through standard notation (using notation in a manner consistent with the genre and with the appropriate skill connected with the level).

Advanced: Develop, apply, and refine appropriate rehearsal strategies to address individual and ensemble challenges in a varied repertoire of music.

Advanced: Compose and improvise musical ideas for a variety of purposes and contexts.

Novice: Identify and explain how context (e.g. social, cultural, historical) can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Advanced: Justify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works by comparing and synthesizing varied researched sources, including reference to other art forms.

Responding

Proficient: Use repertoire to demonstrate a developing understanding of various musical structure and context in repertoire performed.

Accomplished: Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the specified purpose and context.

Proficient: Compose and improvise ideas for melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements for specific purposes that reflect characteristic(s) of music from a variety of historical periods studied in rehearsal.

Creating

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Accomplished: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Proficient: Share personally-developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives individually or as an ensemble that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Accomplished: Evaluate and refine draft arrangements, sections, short compositions, and improvisations based on personally-developed criteria, including the extent to which they address identified purposes.

Advanced: Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and teacher-provided criteria.

Accomplished: Share personally-developed melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements individually or as an ensemble that address identified purposes.

Advanced: Demonstrate and justify how the analysis of structures, contexts, and performance decisions inform the response to music.

Novice: Select repertoire to study/perform based on interest, music reading and performing/technical abilities.

Proficient: Demonstrate attention to expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures, styles, and genres.

Intermediate: Develop strategies to address technical challenges in a varied repertoire of music.

Novice: Identify expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Proficient: Explain how the analysis of passages and understanding the way the elements of music are manipulated inform the response to music.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Accomplished: Demonstrate an understanding of intent as a means for connecting with an audience through prepared performances.

Advanced: Share personally-developed arrangements, sections, and short compositions individually or as an ensemble that address identified purposes.

Accomplished: Analyze how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Connecting

Advanced: Use research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music

Novice: Identify and explain how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts (e.g.science, social studies, math, language arts).

Proficient: technical and expressive challenges in a varied repertoire of music other sources to refine performances.

Intermediate: Identify and explain how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts (e.g.science, social studies, math, language arts).

Intermediate: Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through audio or video recording and through standard notation (using notation in a manner consistent with the genre and with the appropriate skill connected with the level).

Accomplished: Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through audio or video recording and through standard notation (using notation in a manner consistent with the genre and with the appropriate skill connected with the level).

Advanced: Use research and personally developed criteria to justify choices made when selecting music, citing knowledge of the music, and individual and ensemble purpose and context.

Intermediate: Identify and explain the roles and impact music plays in one's life and the lives of others.

Intermediate: Select repertoire to study/perform based on interest, music reading and performing/technical abilities.

Advanced: Use feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances and strengthen effective rehearsal strategies

Accomplished: Select and develop arrangements, sections, and short compositions for specific purposes that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music from a variety of cultures studied in rehearsal.

Novice: Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and teacher-provided criteria.

Intermediate: Demonstrate attention to expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures and styles.

Advanced: Develop and justify evaluations of music, programs of music, and performances based on criteria, personal decision-making, research, and understanding of contexts.

Novice: Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared performances.

Novice: Use repertoire to demonstrate a developing understanding of various musical structure and context in repertoire performed.

Advanced: Analyze how music and other art forms involve and are affected by one's knowledge outside the arts

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Accomplished: Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, and context of a varied repertoire of music influences prepared and improvised performances as well as performer's technical skill to connect with the audience.

Advanced: Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, and context of a varied repertoire of music informs prepared and improvised performances as well as performer's technical skill to connect with the audience.

Accomplished: Develop and apply appropriate rehearsal strategies to address individual and ensemble challenges in a varied repertoire of music

Advanced: Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through audio or video recording and through standard notation (using notation in a manner consistent with the genre and with the appropriate skill connected with the level).

Intermediate: Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures and styles.

Novice: Develop melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Proficient: Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing characteristics found in the music

Proficient: Apply criteria to select music for specified purposes, supporting choices by citing connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Advanced: Justify how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Advanced: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Intermediate: Describe how the elements of music are manipulated to inform the response to music.

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Proficient: Explain the criteria used in selecting the repertoire to study/perform based on interest, music reading and performing/technical abilities.

Accomplished: Support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, (when appropriate) the setting of the text, and varied researched sources.

Proficient: Explain and analyze how music is affected by one's knowledge outside the arts

Intermediate: Demonstrate an understanding of the context of the music through prepared performances.

Accomplished: Evaluate works and performances based on research as well as personally and collaboratively-developed criteria, including analysis and interpretation of the structure and context.

Accomplished: Compose and improvise ideas for arrangements, sections, and short compositions for specific purposes that reflect characteristic(s) of music from a variety of cultures studied in rehearsal.

Intermediate: Identify and explain how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Accomplished: Demonstrate an understanding of expressive qualities of the music in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire representing diverse cultures, styles, genres, and historical periods.

Novice: Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through audio or video recording and through standard notation (using notation in a manner consistent with the genre and with the appropriate skill connected with the level).

Refine and complete artistic work

Novice: Share personally-developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives individually or as an ensemble that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Accomplished: Apply previously established criteria used in selecting the repertoire to o study/perform based on interest, music reading and performing/technical abilities.

Novice: Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Novice: Identify how the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts inform the response to music.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Intermediate: Develop melodies and rhythmic passages that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Accomplished: Based on an understanding of the theoretical and structural characteristics of music, select a varied repertoire to study/perform

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Novice: Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music

Advanced: Select and develop melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Proficient: Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Proficient: Explain and analyze how context can inform the expressive intent and meaning of a musical performance.

Advanced: Demonstrate an understanding of intent as a means for connecting with an audience through prepared performances.

Proficient: Select and develop melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements for specific purposes that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music from a variety of historical periods studied in rehearsal.

Accomplished: Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices citing knowledge of the music

Proficient: Use feedback from ensemble peers and other sources to refine performances.

Advanced: Demonstrate an understanding and mastery of the expressive qualities of the music through prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire representing diverse cultures, styles, genres, and historical periods in multiple types of ensembles.

Apply the aesthetics of the production elements in a theatrical work.

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Apply and justify a collection of acting techniques from reliable resources to prepare a believable and sustainable performance.

Apply concepts from a theatrical work for personal realization about cultural perspectives and understanding.

Creating

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Compare and debate the connection between a theatrical work and contemporary issues that may impact an audience.

Design and implement a complete design for a theatrical work that incorporates all elements of technology necessary for a piece/production.( e.g. lighting, scenery, sound, props, costumes, media, makeup. rights and royalties).

Apply a variety of researched acting techniques to character choices in a theatrical work.

Perform a scripted theatrical work for a specific audience.

Responding

Describe the playwright's purpose for an intended audience in a theatrical work.

Refine a range of acting skills to build a believable and sustainable theatrical work.

Defend character choices when participating in or observing a theatrical work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Develop and synthesize original ideas in a theatrical work utilizing critical analysis, historical and cultural context, research and western or non-western theatre traditions.

Practice and demonstrate a devised or scripted theatrical work using theatrical staging (blocking, movement).

Respond to what is seen, felt, and heard in a theatrical work to develop criteria for artistic choices.

Cooperate as a creative team to make interpretive choices for a theatrical work.

Explore and document how personal beliefs and biases can affect the interpretation of research data applied in theatrical work.

Research how other theatre artists apply creative processes to tell stories in a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Employ a high level of technical proficiency to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted theatrical work (e.g. safely utilize technical theatre practices).

Justify personal aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of a theatrical work.

Discuss the function of history and culture in the development of a dramatic concept through a critical analysis of original ideas in a theatrical work.

Justify technical design choices to support the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted theatrical work. (e.g. lighting, sound, scenery, props, costumes, makeup, media).

Develop a theatrical work that identifies and questions cultural, global, and historic belief systems.

Present a theatrical production for a specific audience that employs research and analysis grounded in the creative perspectives of the playwright, director, designer, and dramaturg.

Interpret and apply contractual royalties to secure rights for a theatrical work

Refine and complete artistic work

Analyze and critique the dramatic concept of a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Conceptualize the style, genre or form in a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Research and analyze scripts to revise physical, vocal, and psychological choices which impact the believability and relevance of a theatrical work.

Apply new understandings of cultures and contexts to theatrical work.

Analyze unique choices and create believable and sustainable characters theatrical work.

Construct meaning in a theatrical work, taking into consideration, personal aesthetics and knowledge of production elements while respecting others' interpretations.

Integrate cultural and historical contexts with personal experiences to create a character that is believable and authentic in a theatrical work.

Justify multiple aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs that informs artistic decisions in a theatrical work.

Collaborate as a creative team to create artistic solutions and make interpretive choices in a devised or scripted theatrical work.

Explore the impact of technology on design choices in a theatrical work.

Justify how a theatrical work communicates a specific purpose for an audience.

Use a variety of acting techniques to expand skills in a rehearsal or theatrical performance.

Present a theatrical work using creative processes that shape the production for a specific audience.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Analyze and compare character choices developed from personal experiences in multiple theatrical works.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Implement design solutions for a theatrical work.

Use personal experiences and background knowledge to develop a character that is believable and authentic in a theatrical work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work

Apply basic research to construct ideas about the visual composition of a theatrical work.

Modify character choices using the work of others when participating in or observing a theatrical work.

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Explore physical, vocal and psychological choices to develop a performance that is believable, authentic, and relevant to a theatrical work.

Examine a theatrical work using supporting evidence and criteria, while considering art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines.

Use script analysis to generate ideas about a character that is believable and convincing in a theatrical work.

Performing

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Research and synthesize cultural and historical information related to a theatrical work to support or evaluate artistic choices.

Apply reliable research of directors' styles to create unique choices for a directorial concept in a theatrical work.

Refine a dramatic concept to demonstrate a critical understanding of historical and cultural influences of original ideas applied to a theatrical work.

Formulate creative choices for a devised or scripted theatrical work based on research about the selected topic.

Conceptualize and construct technical design choices to enhance the story and emotional impact of a devised or scripted theatrical work. (e.g. lighting, sound, scenery, props, costumes, makeup).

Provide multiple aesthetics, preferences, and beliefs through participation in and observation of theatrical work.

Identify essential text information, research from various sources, and the director's concept that influence character choices in a theatrical work.

Analyze and assess a theatrical work by connecting it to art forms, history, culture, and other disciplines using supporting evidence and criteria.

Synthesize knowledge from a variety of dramatic forms, theatrical conventions, and technologies, including rights and royalties to create the visual composition of a theatrical work.

Collaborate as the actor, director, playwright and designers to explore their interdependent roles in a theatrical work.

Explore how cultural, global, and historic belief systems affect creative choices in a theatrical work.

Connecting

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Integrate conventions and knowledge from different art forms and other disciplines to develop a cross-cultural theatrical work.

Investigate how cultural perspectives, community ideas and personal beliefs impact a theatrical work.

Perform ideas from research and script analysis to create a believable, authentic, and relevant piece in a theatrical work.

Research various character objectives and tactics in a theatrical work to overcome an obstacle.

Apply pacing to better communicate the story in a theatrical work.

Analyze and evaluate varied aesthetic interpretations of production elements for a theatrical work.

Choose and interpret a theatrical work to reflect or question personal beliefs.

Identify and compare cultural perspectives and contexts that influence the evaluation of theatrical work.

Use researched technical elements to increase the impact of design in a theatrical work.

Collaborate on a theatrical work that examines a critical global issue using multiple personal, community, and cultural perspectives.

Use historical and cultural context to structure and justify personal responses to a theatrical work.

Demonstrate an understanding of multiple interpretations of artistic criteria and how each might be used to influence future artistic choices of a theatrical work.

Explain and justify the selection of technical elements used to build a design that communicates the dramatic concept.

Justify and document the creative choices made in a devised or scripted theatrical work based on critical interpretation of specific data from research.

Use basic theatre research methods to better understand the social and cultural background of a theatrical work.

Document and present and support an opinion about the social, cultural, and historical understandings of a theatrical work, based on critical research.

Investigate historical and cultural conventions and their impact on the visual composition of a theatrical work.

Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.

Reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art or design considering relevant traditional and contemporary criteria as well as personal artistic vision.

Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.

Utilize inquiry methods of observation, research, and experimentation to explore community concerns through artmaking.

Demonstrate in works of art or design how visual and material culture defines, shapes, enhances, inhibits, and/or empowers people's lives.

Perceive and analyze artistic work

Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.

Analyze and evaluate the reasons (such as showcasing student artwork, recording the past, provoking thought, learning about other cultures, protecting vulnerable artworks) and ways an exhibition is presented (such as examining an exhibition catalogue, visiting an online exhibition, visiting a museum).

Analyze, select, curate, and present artwork for a specific exhibit or event.

Apply traditional, cultural, or contemporary criteria to examine, reflect on, and plan revisions for works of art and design in progress.

Investigate and compare methods for preserving and protecting art (such as conserving/stabilizing, restoring/repairing, repatriating, addressing security concerns).

Individually or collaboratively formulate new creative problems based on student's existing artwork.

Describe how knowledge of culture, traditions, and history may influence personal responses to art (such as compare initial response to an artwork at the beginning of the course and periodically throughout the course to identify changes in perception after study of the context).

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work

Reflect upon how responses to art develop over time based on knowledge of and experience with art and life.

Demonstrate safe and skillful handling of materials, tools, and equipment; explain how traditional and non-traditional materials may impact human health and the environment, and demonstrate safe handling of materials, tools, and equipment.

Creating

Establish relevant criteria, as distinct from personal preference, to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Through experimentation, practice, and persistence, demonstrate acquisition of skills and knowledge in a chosen art form using various approaches (such as using the using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures, addressing social issues in contemporary art).

Collaboratively develop a proposal for an installation, artwork, or space design that transforms the perception and experience of a particular place.

Determine the relevance of criteria used by others (such as the general public compared to art specialists) to evaluate a work of art or collection of works.

Redesign an artwork, everyday object, or place in response to contemporary issues (such as "Sun Mad" by Yolanda Lopez, "George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware" by Robert Colescott, vacant lot as community garden).

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work

Demonstrate understanding of the importance of balancing freedom and responsibility in the use of images, materials, tools, and equipment in the creation and circulation of creative work.

Document the process of developing ideas that reflect group concerns from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.

Evaluate the effectiveness of an image or images to influence ideas, feelings, and behaviors of specific audiences (political posters, ideal images of women, marketing campaigns).

Identify commonalities in visual images made in the same era or culture (such as fashion, automotive design, furniture, buildings).

Connecting

Curate a collection of objects, artifacts, or artwork to impact the viewer's understanding of social, cultural, and/or political experiences.

Compare uses of art in a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts and make connections to uses of art in contemporary and local contexts.

Analyze how one's understanding of the world is affected by experiencing visual imagery (such as icons, logos, advertisements).

Select, Analyze and Interpret artistic work for performance

Shape an artistic investigation of an aspect of present-day life using contemporary practices of art or design.

Plan personal artwork or design choosing from a range of traditional and contemporary artistic practices.

Use art media with skill, purpose, and craftsmanship; and demonstrate awareness of ethical implications of making and distributing creative work.

Examine, select, and justify choices of personal artwork for a collection or portfolio presentation.

Refine and complete artistic work

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding

Engage in making works of art or design both spontaneously and deliberately (such as using elements and principles of modern art, applying artistic norms of diverse cultures, addressing social issues in contemporary art).

Construct a persuasive interpretation of an artwork or collection informed by the perspective of an art specialist(s) (such as art historians, art critics, curators, reviewers, and other artists).

Appraise the impact of an artist or a group of artists on the beliefs, values, and behaviors of a society (such as Chinese propaganda art, James Montomery Flag's Uncle Sam army recruitment poster, Kathe Kollwitz woodcuts, Cesar Chavez's eagle symbol for the United Farm Workers, Elizabeth Catlett's "Sharecropper").

Speculate about ways in which art impacts people's perception and understanding of human experiences (such as the impact of Diego Rivera's political murals or Pablo Picasso's "Guernica", Jacob Lawrence's "Migration Series").

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Defend a plausible interpretation of an artwork in comparison to the artist's stated intention for that artwork.

Follow or break established conventions in the making of multiple works of art or design based on a theme, idea, or concept.

Analyze, select, and curate artifacts (such as pop culture items, heirlooms, personal collections) and/or artworks for presentation (such as in spaces in the classroom, digital presentation, on school campus, local businesses, public spaces).

Engage in constructive critique with peers, then reflect on, re-engage, revise, and refine works of art.

Visualize and hypothesize to generate plans for creating art or design that explores social issues.

Use art-specific vocabulary to describe personal aesthetic responses to designed objects and constructed environments (such as electronic devices, household appliances, shopping malls).

Evaluate, select, and apply methods or processes appropriate to display and preserve artwork in a specific place (such as spaces in the classroom, on school campus, local businesses, public spaces).

Presenting

Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work

Experiment, plan, and make multiple works of art and design that explore a personally meaningful theme, idea, or concept.

Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence (such as subject matter, media, elements and principles of modern art, artistic norms of diverse cultures, social issues in contemporary art) found in the work and its various contexts (artists' life and times).

Make, explain, and justify connections between artists or artwork and social, cultural, and political history.

Responding

Use multiple approaches (such as exploring artwork from the past, experimenting with materials, expressing a personal concern) to begin creative endeavors.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work