•  Demonstrating correct posture

•  Adjusting tone quality while singing

•  Supporting a tone with proper breath control for 8 beats

•  Singing uniform vowels

•  Enunciating beginning and ending consonants

•  Demonstrating proper vocal technique as a member of a large group

Example: balance and blend of vocal timbre within a group

•  Identifying components of proper vocal health

Examples: maintaining proper hydration and diet, refraining from use of tobacco and drugs

•  Singing standard pitch notation, including letter names, solfège, and numbers in the treble or bass clef within an octave range using stepwise movement and the intervals of a third and fifth

•  Performing scales and their related arpeggios

•  Demonstrating whole- and half-step patterns in the major scale

•  Performing accurately literature that indicates tempo markings of moderato, ritardando, and a tempo

•  Performing accurately literature that indicates dynamic markings of piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, and forte

•  Performing accurately literature that indicates articulation markings of legato and staccato

•  Responding vocally to conductor cues, indicating meter, entrances, and cutoffs

Examples: strophic, theme and variations

Example: "Hallelujah Chorus" evoking excitement

Example: use of rhythm in music, visual arts, dance, and theatre

Examples: "Psallite" from Michael Praetorius' Musae sioniae, 1609, late Renaissance; "Alleluia" from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cantata No. 142, Baroque period; "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?," traditional spiritual; "All Things Bright and Beautiful," John Rutter, contemporary music

•  Comparing music of several cultures of the world

Examples: Japanese folk song "Sakura, Sakura," South African folk song "Siyahamba," Russian folk song "Tum Balalaika," Mexican folk song "Cielito lindo"

•  Describing the function of the diaphragm as related to singing

•  Singing legato and staccato articulations

•  Supporting tone with proper breath control for 12 beats

•  Singing with correct diction and intonation

•  Identifying the relationship of the key signature to "do" or l

•  Performing music containing the intervals of a 2^nd , 3^rd , 4^th , 5^th, and octave

•  Performing accurately literature that indicates tempo markings of allegro, andante, and accelerando

•  Performing accurately literature that indicates dynamic markings of crescendo and decrescendo

•  Performing accurately literature that indicates an accent mark

•  Responding vocally to conductor cues concerning dynamic contrasts

Example: songs used as coded information to find a path to freedom during the Civil War

•  Supporting tone with proper breath control for 16 beats

•  Identifying the chordal structure within a tonal key

•  Performing music containing all intervals in the diatonic scale

•  Counting rhythm patterns, including sixteenth notes, note values tied over the bar line, and compound meters

•  Performing accurately literature that indicates tempo markings of adagio, vivace, and rallentando

•  Performing accurately literature that indicates dynamic markings of pianissimo and fortissimo

•  Performing accurately literature that uses the marking of marcato

•  Responding vocally to conductor cues indicating tempo changes

Example: using a choir to enhance worship services

•  Identifying key signatures in all major keys

•  Performing music that contains accidentals

•  Counting rhythm patterns, including syncopation, mixed meters, and irregular meters

•  Performing atonal music

•  Performing accurately tempo markings in the literature being performed

•  Performing accurately dynamic markings in the literature being performed

•  Performing accurately articulation markings in the literature being performed

•  Performing independently solo and ensemble literature

•  Responding vocally to conductor cues

Examples: jazz, blues, gospel

Examples: performer, composer, arranger, sound engineer, music therapist, music educator