| PA Big Ideas and National Standards Artistic Processes |
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- 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
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| National Standards/Artistic Processes/Enduring Understandings |
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| Creating | Performing | Responding | Connecting |
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| 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 | | |
