Model Curriculum Table – Pennsylvania Music Educators Association

PA Big Ideas and National Standards Artistic Processes
The skills, techniques, elements, and principles of the arts can be learned, studied, refined, and practiced Artists use tools and resources as well as their own experiences and skills to create art The arts provide a medium to understand and exchange ideas Humans have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures There are formal and informal processes used to assess the quality of works in the arts People use both aesthetic and critical processes to assess the quality of works in the arts		Creating, Performing, Responding, and Connecting Creating, Connecting Creating, Performing, Responding, Connecting Creating, Performing, Connecting Performing, Responding, Connecting Performing, Responding, Connecting
National Standards/Artistic Processes/Enduring Understandings
Creating	Performing	Responding	Connecting
The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians’ work emerge from a variety of sources	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	Individuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understanding, and purposes	Musicians’ connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding
Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their own experiences and skills to create art	Analyzing creators’ context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performances	Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music	Understanding connections to varied contexts and daily life enhances musicians’ creating, performing, and responding
Musicians’ evaluate and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria	Performers’ make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent	Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent
Musicians’ presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication	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	The personal evaluation of musical works and performances are informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria
	Musicians’ judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures