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Subject Overview School Year 2015-2016

Subject: Music
Year Level: Grade 8
Teacher: Mrs.Steffi Evangelista
Course Description
Music is an art form consisting of sound and silence, expressed through time. Students listen to, perform and compose
music, encouraging aesthetic and emotional development, self-discipline and, importantly, creativity. As a result,
students enhance their appreciation and enjoyment of music, an achievement that forms an ideal foundation for future
study and enhances life-long musical enjoyment.

Aims of the course

Develop understanding of music through experiences in singing, playing instruments, performing rhythms,
moving to music, composing, and listening
Develop the ability to read and notate music
Create compositions that transcribe their thoughts and emotions into forms of musical expression
Exercise critical thinking skills by investigating and analyzing all facets of the music discipline
Demonstrate awareness of and responsibility for the safe and responsible use of materials, equipment, methods,
and technologies
Demonstrate understanding of the relationship of music to history and culture

Confident Responsible Reflective Innovative

Engaged
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Subject Overview School Year 2015-2016

GRADING SYSTEM :
Formative Assessments: Tests/Quizzes = 10%
Classwork/Homework = 10%
Project = 30%
Affective = 20%
Summative Assessments: Semester Final Exam = 30%

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4

Performance and Performance and Performance and Performance and
Production Production Production Production
Singing in tune with Sing a varied Sing melodies in Sing alone and with
a clear note quality repertoire of songs treble staff others in various
ensembles
Play melodies written Accompany songs Play pitched and
in traditional notation and chants with I and non-pitched Demonstrate a wide
IV chords, using instruments in two- range of tempos and
Music Theory and
instrument part ensembles dynamics, using
Cultural Context
instruments
Reading and Writing Perform non- Performing sets of
Music : notate choreographed and beats grouped in Music Theory and
melodies and choreographed twos and threes Cultural Context
understand function movements
Perfrom dances and Read and notate
of music symbols
Create movements games from various

Confident Responsible Reflective Innovative

Engaged
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Subject Overview School Year 2015-2016
Understanding Music to illustrate form culture rhythmic patterns
History and Musical
Experience and
Style of Indonesian
discuss examples of
Music Theory and Create rhytmic
Aesthetics : Responding non-Western
Cultural Context accompaniments and
and Reflecting instruments
ostinati for song and
Identify and explain
Determine why chants Judgment and
ABC form
music has value Criticism : Listening,
Music Theory and
Aesthetics : Responding Analyzing, Interpreting,
Cultural Context
and Reflecting and Evaluating
Identify sets of beat
Identify common elements Discuss a piece of
grouped in twos and
in the music of a culture music, using music
threes
terminology
Identify weak and
strong beats

Confident Responsible Reflective Innovative

Engaged