Indiana Music Standards

Anchor Standard 1 - Experience & Connect

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and personal experience.


Anchor Standard 2 - Apply & Transfer

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music, the other arts, and disciplines outside the arts.


Anchor Standard 3 - Explore

Connect with a varied repertoire of music by exploring the relationships between music and history and culture.


Anchor Standard 4 - Respond

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by audiating music.


Anchor Standard 5 - Understanding & Infer

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by describing, interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating music and its elemental components.


Anchor Standard 6 - Interpret & Express

Listen and respond to a varied repertoire of music by interpreting and expressing music through movement.


Anchor Standard 7 - Performance with Voice

Perform a varied repertoire of music by singing, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.


Anchor Standard 8 - Performance with Musical Instruments

Perform a varied repertoire of music by playing instruments, alone and with others, from rote memory and written notation.


Anchor Standard 9 - Express

Create a varied repertoire of music by improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments.


Anchor Standard 10 - Transfer

Create a varied repertoire of music by representing audiated and aurally perceived music.


Anchor Standard 11 - Create

Create a varied repertoire of music by composing and arranging music with both traditional and non-traditional notation.