Responding

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Select

Choose music appropriate for a specific purpose or context.

Enduring Understanding: Individuals’ selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes

Essential Question: How do individuals choose music to experience?

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Analyze

Analyze how the structure and context of varied musical works inform the response

Enduring Understanding: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, 
and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music

Essential Question: How does understanding the structure and 
context of music inform a response?

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Interpret

Support interpretations of musical works that reflect creators’/performers’ expressive intent.

Enduring Understanding: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and 
performers provide clues to their expressive intent. 

Essential Question: How do we discern musical creators’ and 
performers’ expressive intent?

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Evaluate

Support evaluations of musical works and performances based on analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Enduring Understanding: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is 
informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Essential Question: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) 
and performance(s)?