National Standards for Music Education

National Standard #8

8. Understanding relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.

Grades K-4

a. identify similarities and differences in the meanings of common terms used in the various arts

b. identify ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with those of music

Grades 5-8

a. compare in two or more arts how the characteristic materials of each art can be used to transform similar events, scenes, emotions, or ideas into works of art

b. describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with those of music

Grades 9-12

Proficient:

a. explain how elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles are used in similar and distinctive ways in the various arts and cite examples

b. compare characteristics of two or more arts within a particular historical period or style and cite examples from various cultures

c. explain ways in which the principles and subject matter of various disciplines outside the arts are interrelated with those of music

Advanced:

d. compare the uses of characteristic elements, artistic processes, and organizational principles among the arts in different historical periods and different cultures

e. explain how the roles of creators, performers, and others involved in the production and presentation of the arts are similar to and different from one another in the various arts