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COMMON ANCHORSESSENTIAL QUESTIONS?ENDURING UNDERSTANDING
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#1 - Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.How do musicians generate creative ideas? The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources.
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#2 - Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.How do musicians make creative decisions? Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
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#3 - Refine and complete artistic work.How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work? Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
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When is creative work ready to share? Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
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#4 - Analyze, interpret, and select artistic work for presentation.How do performers select repertoire? Performers’ interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
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How does understanding the structure and context of musicalworks inform performances? Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
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How do performers interpret musical works? Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent.
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#5 - Develop and refine artistic work for presentation.How do musicians improve the quality of their performance? To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
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#6 - Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.When is a performance judged ready to present? Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures.
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How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response? The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
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#7 - Perceive and analyze artistic work.How do individuals choose music to experience? Individuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
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How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response? Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
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#8 - Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.How do we discern musical creators' and performers' expressive intent? Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
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#9 - Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performances(s)? The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
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#10 - Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding? Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
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#11 - Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural and historical context to deepen understanding.
How do the arts, other disciplines, context and daily life inform creating, performing, and responding to music? Understanding connections to varied contexts and daily life enhances musicians’ creating, performing, and responding.
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