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Music Composition

Build a musical composition 16 measures long that uses a variety of rhythms (up to 16th note subdivisions) specific dynamics, and all instruments of the team.

Rubric Code: DAB847

By MomilyO

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Subject: Music

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 6-8

Music Composition
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Use of all Instruments	Excellent Students have included all instruments and used their unique sounds and features effectively.	Good Students have included all instruments but 1 or 2 things could have been added to use each instrument well.	Fair Students have included some instruments and/or 3 or 4 things could have been added to use each instrument well.	Poor Students have not utilized all the instruments and/or their sounds.
Notation	Excellent Students have notated their composition with correct number of measures, all the rhythms correct, instrument parts and double bar line to end the piece.	Good Students have notated their composition mostly correct with only two or three errors.	Fair Students have notated their composition mostly correct but there are missing measures or more than two measures have rhythmic errors.	Poor Students have failed to notate correctly and there is little regard for number of measures and correct number of beats per measure.
Rhythm	Excellent Students have used a variety of rhythms including sixteenth notes and syncopation and the composition makes musical sense with good flow.	Good Students have used a variety of rhythms including sixteenth notes and the composition mostly makes musical sense with good flow.	Fair Students have not used a variety of rhythms and there are no sixteenth notes.	Poor Students have not used a variety of rhythms, the composition is boring and without musical flow.
Dynamics	Excellent Students have included at least three dynamic changes over their composition.	Good Students have included at least two dynamic changes over their composition.	Fair Students have included one dynamic change over their composition.	Poor Students have not included any dynamic changes over their composition.
Performance	Excellent Students can perform the composition accurately and can reproduce it more than once including dynamic changes and all parts.	Good Students can perform the composition but make minor mistakes or can not reproduce the performance.	Fair Students performance of the composition is shaky and they can not reproduce the performance.	Poor Students can not perform the composition.