Enduring Understanding 2: The arts reflect and document cultural trends and historical events, and help explain how new directions in the arts have emerged.

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Number: MU.68.H.2
Title: The arts reflect and document cultural trends and historical events, and help explain how new directions in the arts have emerged.
Type: Enduring Understanding
Subject: Music
Grade: 68
Big Idea: Historical and Global Connections

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Independent

MU.68.H.2.In.a
Identify the influence of historical events and periods on music composition and performance.
MU.68.H.2.In.b
Identify a variety of technologies to create, perform, acquire, and experience music.
MU.68.H.2.In.c
Classify selected music by genre, style, and/or time period.

Supported

MU.68.H.2.Su.a
Recognize the influence of selected historical or cultural events on music of the time.
MU.68.H.2.Su.b
Recognize selected technologies to create, perform, acquire, and experience music.
MU.68.H.2.Su.c
Recognize the genre, style, and/or time period of selected music.

Participatory

MU.68.H.2.Pa.a
Associate music with significant historical or cultural events.
MU.68.H.2.Pa.b
Recognize selected ways to create, perform, acquire, and experience music.
MU.68.H.2.Pa.c
Recognize the genre of selected music.

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