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Required instructional music program for all grade 2 through 5 students.
Elective opportunities in grades 6-12.
Advanced Placement Music for grades 9-12.
Competency-Based Curriculum
The Music Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) for grades K-12 was developed in-house by Miami-Dade County music educators. Objectives designed for the CBC reflect measurable performance behaviors in a scope and sequence that indicate a spiral curriculum. New concepts and skills at each grade level build upon and incorporate previously learned behaviors. It is expected that students will meet the performance standards. Students are encouraged to participate in interdisciplinary activities, performance ensembles, field trips to concerts, and festivals that showcase student talent. The curriculum reflects both the National Standards and Florida's Sunshine State Standards.
This outstanding curriculum features five major components:
Music Literacy
As a learning outcome, students can:
-- Sightread music
-- Perform alone or in groups
Technique
As a learning outcome, students can:
-- Manipulate their individual instrument
-- Perform alone or in groups
-- Use diaphragmatic breathing
Expressive and Stylistic Characteristics
As a learning outcome, students can:
-- Perform music expressively by following musical symbols
-- Perform music according to the period of the piece (i.e., classical, romantic, etc.)
Music Structures
As a learning outcome, students can:
-- Identify form in a piece of music
-- Compose a piece of music using a structured form
-- Identify common song forms
-- Compose using repetition and sequence
-- Identify and construct major and minor scales
-- Identify and construct major, minor, diminished, and augmented triads
Personal and Social music Development and Life long musical learning
As a learning outcome, students can:
-- Develop a criteria for evaluating music performance and preference
-- List factors to be considered in choosing a career in music
-- Analyze the discipline, knowledge, and skills required for career preparation in music
-- Explain the function of the music union (AFM), agents, placement services, copyright applications, and contracts
-- Prepare a budget for a concert
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