Nevada State Standards for Arts Education: Grade 12

NV.1.0. Music: Singing - Students sing a varied repertoire of music alone and with others.

1.12.1. Individual Singing Technique: Perform with technical accuracy and good breath control throughout their singing ranges.

1.12.2. Choral Singing Technique: Perform using correct intonation, diction, tone quality, and appropriate expressive qualities in small and large ensembles with and without a conductor.

1.12.3. Independent Part Singing: Perform choral literature written in three/four parts with and without accompaniment.

1.12.5. Variety of Repertoire: Perform music representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.2.0. Music: Playing Instruments - Students perform a varied repertoire of music on instruments alone and with others.

2.12.1. Individual Playing Techniques: Perform with expression and technical accuracy on at least one string, wind, percussion, or classroom instrument.

2.12.2. Ensemble Playing Technique: Play in small and large ensembles demonstrating advanced ensemble technique.

2.12.3. Independent Part Playing: Perform contrapuntal ensemble literature

2.12.4. Variety of Repertoire: Perform a large and varied repertoire of instrumental literature representing diverse genres and styles.

NV.3.0. Music: Improvisation - Students improvise melodies, variations, and accompaniments.

3.12.1. Improvising Rhythms and Melodies: Improvise complex melodies in a given key.

3.12.2. Improvising Harmonies: Improvise stylistically appropriate harmonies (e.g. 12-bar blues).

3.12.3. Improvising Variations: Improvise melodic and rhythmic variations on given pentatonic melodies and melodies in major keys.

NV.4.0. Music: Writing - Students compose and arrange music within specified guidelines.

4.12.2. Composing: Compose music in several distinct styles using the elements of music.

4.12.3. Arranging: Arrange a two-part piece for voices/instruments other than those for which the pieces were originally composed.

NV.5.0. Music: Reading - Students read and notate music.

5.12.1. Rhythmic Reading: Read complex rhythms in all meters within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.2. Melodic Reading: Read complex melodies within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.3. Musical Symbols: Apply standard and nonstandard music symbols within the context of the repertoire.

5.12.4. Sight Reading: Sight read in parts with technical accuracy and expression.

5.12.5. Notating: Notate musical phrases using standard and nonstandard symbols (e.g. used by some 20th century composers).

NV.6.0. Music: Listening - Students listen to, analyze, and describe music.

6.12.1. Analysis of Elements of Music and Performance: Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the technical vocabulary of the elements of music in analyzing aural examples.

6.12.2. Analysis Within Cultural and Historical Context: Analyze examples of a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures by describing the uses of the elements of music and expressive devices.

NV.7.0. Music: Evaluation - Students evaluate music and music performances.

7.12.1. Developing Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria for making informed critical evaluations of the quality and effectiveness of performance and compositions.

7.12.2. Applying Musical Criteria: Apply specific musical criteria in evaluating their own music performances and those of similar or exemplary models.

NV.8.0. Music: Application to Life - Students demonstrate relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

8.12.1. Commonalities Among the Arts: Compare how the characteristics appropriate to each art form can be used to describe similar themes and cite examples (e.g. emotion, intensity).

8.12.2. Commonalities Between the Arts and Other Disciplines: Analyze concepts common to music and other disciplines outside the arts (e.g. conflict resolution: English - 'Romeo and Juliet'; History - The Civil War; Science - chemical reactions; Music- tension and release).

NV.9.0. Music: Cultural and Historical Connections - Students demonstrate knowledge of the historical periods and cultural diversity of music.

9.12.1. Cultural and Historical Context: Classify music examples by style, historical periods, American musical history, and world cultures.

9.12.2. Role of Music and Musicians: Describe various roles that musicians play and cite the achievements of representative individuals.

NV.10.0. Music: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate an understanding of movement through skills, techniques, choreography, and as a form of communication.

10.12.1. No indicator of progress for Grade 12

NV.1.0. Theater: Students recognize and understand the components of theatrical production including script writing, directing, and production.

1.12.1. Scriptwriting: Write a script in proper format for stage, television, film, or electronic media using historical or cultural research as a basis for the script.

1.12.2. Directing: Create a theatrical performance by conducting auditions, casting characters, directing scenes, and conducting production meetings.

1.12.3. Understanding Roles of Stage Personnel: Explain and demonstrate knowledge of varied responsibilities of technical personnel involved in television, theater, film or electronic media production.

1.12.4. Determining an Interpretation: Develop an aesthetically unified production for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.5. Publicity: Create a variety of materials for a media campaign for theater, film, television, or electronic media.

1.12.6. Set Design: Work collaboratively and safely to design and/or construct a variety of scenic devices (e.g. scenic drops).

1.12.7. Props, Costumes, and Make-up: Justify choices of costumes, make-up and props as they relate to the interpretation of a production.

1.12.8. Understanding Lighting and Sound: Describe and demonstrate different lighting and sound techniques and equipment for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

1.12.9. Designing Lights and Sound: Design and/or use a light and/or sound plot for film, stage, television, or electronic media.

NV.2.0. Theater: Students understand and demonstrate the role of the actor in the theater.

2.12.1. Character Analysis: Analyze and describe the physical, emotional, and social dimensions of characters found in a variety of text.

2.12.2. Acting Skills: Identify, examine, and demonstrate various classical and contemporary acting techniques and methods.

2.12.3. Characterization: Create and sustain a character within an ensemble for stage, film, television, or electronic media.

NV.3.0. Theater: Students apply and demonstrate critical and creative thinking skills in theater, film television, or electronic media.

3.12.1. Production/Performance Analysis: Critique the effectiveness of the visual, aural, and kinesthetic elements of a performance.

3.12.2. Aesthetic Criteria: Justify personal aesthetic criteria for critiquing a dramatized performance.

3.12.3. Genre Identification: Compare and contrast classical and contemporary dramas and comedies in various media.

NV.4.0. Theater: Students recognize and explain how theatrical experiences contribute to a better understanding of history, culture, and human relationships.

4.12.1. History and Culture: Compare and contrast the ways in which universal themes and archetypes in dramatized events are expressed in another culture and another historical period.

4.12.2. Human Relationships: Analyze methods of conflict resolution among characters.

NV.5.0. Theater: Students make connections with theater, the other arts, and academic disciplines.

5.12.1. Connection to Other Arts: Analyze the ways in which common themes or stories are interpreted in works from the four arts areas.

5.12.2. Connection to History: Analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods.

5.12.3. Connection to Other Academic Disciplines: Evaluate different ways technology is used to enhance theater, film, and television.

NV.1.0. Visual Arts: Knowledge - Students know and apply visual arts media, techniques, and processes.

1.12.1. Knowledge: Justify application of media, techniques, and processes in one's own work.

1.12.2. Response: Evaluate responses to one's own work and apply findings to subsequent works of art.

1.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media, tools, techniques, and processes (e.g. traditional and emerging technologies).

NV.2.0. Visual Arts: Application - Students use knowledge of visual characteristics, purposes, and functions.

2.12.1. Knowledge (Visual Characteristics): Defend an interpretation of visual characteristics in works of art.

2.12.2. Knowledge (Purposes/Functions): Defend interpretations of purposes and/or functions in art.

2.12.3. Response: Analyze the effectiveness of and relationships among visual characteristics, purposes, and/or functions in works of art.

2.12.4. Creation: Create artworks that manipulate visual characteristics to convey complex ideas.

NV.3.0. Visual Arts: Content - Students choose, apply, and evaluate a range of subject matter, symbols, and ideas.

3.12.1. Visual Characteristics: Evaluate the significance of specific subject matter, symbols, and ideas in works of art.

3.12.2. Creation: Plan and produce a work of art that displays the ability to choose subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate intended meaning.

3.12.3. Response: Evaluate and defend the validity of sources and the manner in which subject matter, symbols, and ideas are used in artworks.

NV.4.0. Visual Arts: Context - Students understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.

4.12.1. Knowledge: Analyze and interpret artworks from various cultures and times regarding context and purposes.

4.12.2. Response: Analyze characteristics and interpret meaning of art from various times, cultures, and places.

4.12.3. Creation: Analyze their own artwork in relation to historical, aesthetic, and cultural influences.

NV.5.0. Visual Arts: Interpretation - Students analyze and assess characteristics, merits, and meanings in their own artwork and the work of others.

5.12.1. Knowledge (Characteristics): Evaluate artwork based on various characteristics such as themes, styles, purposes, and subject matter.

5.12.2. Knowledge (Merits): Establish criteria and use them to assess merits of artwork.

5.12.3. Knowledge (Meaning): Examine and evaluate a variety of techniques for communicating meanings, ideas, attitudes, views, and intentions.

5.12.4. Response: Develop a personal aesthetic position and defend its degree of success when applied to works of art.

NV.6.0. Visual Arts: Cross-curricular - Students demonstrate relationships between visual arts, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

6.12.1. Integration with Other Disciplines: Analyze how ideas, issues, and themes of a particular period manifest themselves in the visual arts and make parallel connections with other disciplines.

6.12.2. Integration with Other Fine Arts: Compare the use of materials, techniques, media, and processes of the visual arts with those of other art disciplines.

6.12.3. Creation: Create works of art that reflect the research of multiple disciplines.