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Music in CCSD

Welcome to Music Education
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Why Teach Music
Colorado Academic Standards
Music Instructional Framework
Additional Resources
Contact Information
Heading - Why Teach Music?
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By implementing a structured and standards-based music education, students continue the generational conversation and become fluent in the language of music as a manner of artistic, intellectual, and cultural expression. The acts of performing, creating, and responding to music provide a means for development and growth in the ability to express the otherwise inexpressible and to facilitate growth in many areas of academic development.

Learning to read and notate music opens for students the limitless body of musical styles, forms, and repertoire, and allows them to see what they hear and hear what they see. The interconnections in music bring together the understanding of contemporary and historical cultures as well as self-knowledge. Participation in music provides students with unique experiences and skills essential for success in the 21st-century workforce.
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Music produces creativity, innovation, and cornerstone life skills that will be the key to opening doors for a more diverse and competitive workforce. In learning music, students use critical thinking, self-assessment, reasoning, problem solving, and collaboration, and make connections in new and imaginative ways as they progress through their musical education. All of these skills prepare our students for higher education and the 21st-century workforce. These standards outline the knowledge and skills needed by all Colorado citizens to participate productively in an increasingly creative economy and innovative society.
Heading - Colorado Academic Standards
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Elementary School

Kindergarten Music Standards
First Grade Music Standards
Second Grade Standards
Third Grade Standards
Fourth Grade Standards
Fifth Grade Standards

Middle School

Sixth Grade Standards
Seventh Grade Standards
Eighth Grade Standards

High School

High School Accomplished Standards
High School Advanced Standards
 
Heading - Disciplinary Literacy in Music
Disciplinary Literacy is prominent focus across all content areas in the 2020 Colorado Academic Standards. As teachers plan for successful experiences in their classrooms, they should therefore be taking into consideration the ways in which students develop competency in this area. 
When Musicians Read, they interpret a composer's intent for pitch, tempo, dynamics, and phrasing. Make decisions regarding aesthetics and mood. Apply their own interpretive lens to a work.
When musicians write, they use sound to create art that is temporal and open to interpretation. Combine pitch, rhythm, and timbre to express themselves in both abstract and concrete ways.
When musicians think, they apply historical, contextual, and personal lenses to interpret a composers intent. Consider the ways in which their intellectual and artistic choices may impact the listener. Evaluate their role in the musical experience, the level to which they should assert their individuality, and the responsibility they have to the group in achieving the musical goals of the ensemble.
Disciplinary Literacy in Music PDF
Heading - Music Framework
Coming soon.
Heading - Additional Resources
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heading - Contact Information
DR. PAUL CRIBARI
​PI Partner of K-12 Performing and Visual Arts
​720.554.5093
[email protected]


​CCSD Mission: To inspire every student to think, to learn, to achieve, to care.
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