2. Reading and Notation. Students will read music written in standard notation.
By the end of grade 8 Students will:
2.5
Read whole, half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and dotted notes and
rests in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 3/8, 9/8, and alla breve meter signatures
2.6 Read and sing at sight simple melodies and intervals in both the treble and bass clefs
2.7 Identify, define, and use standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression
2.8 Use standard notation to record their own musical ideas and those of others
2.9
In a choral/instrumental ensemble or class: sight-read, accurately and
expressively, music with a difficulty level of 2 on a scale of 1 to 6*
