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Vocal Music Performance

This rubric provides a guide for assessing students' vocal quality.

Rubric Code: JXCC832

By slneumann

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Subject: Music

Type: Presentation

Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8

Vocal Performance
	Not Meeting 1 pts	Progressing 2 pts	Meeting 3 pts	Advanced 4 pts
Tone Quality	Not Meeting The tone is often not focused, clear, or centered regardless of the range, significantly detracting from the overall performance.	Progressing Tone is often focused, clear, and centered, but is a little uncontrolled in the normal range. Extremes ranges are usually uncontrolled, detracting a bit from overall performance.	Meeting Tone is focused, clear, and centered through normal range. Extremes ranges sometimes cause tone to be less controlled but does not detract from the performance.	Advanced Tone is consistently focused, clear, and centered throughout the range of the voice.
Pitch	Not Meeting Very few accurate or secure pitches.	Progressing Some accurate pitches, but there are frequent and/or repeated errors.	Meeting An occasional isolated error, but most of the time pitch is accurate and secure.	Advanced Virtually no errors. Pitch is very accurate.
Rhythm	Not Meeting The beat is usually erratic and rhythms are seldom accurate, detracting significantly from the overall performance.	Progressing The beat is somewhat erratic. Some rhythms are accurate. Frequent or repeated duration errors occasionally detract from the overall performance.	Meeting The beat is secure and the rhythms are mostly accurate. There are a few duration errors, but these do not detract from the overall performance.	Advanced The beat is secure and the rhythms are accurate for the music being sung.
Diction	Not Meeting Student rarely articulates the words and the text is not discernable.	Progressing Student is sometimes articulating the words, but the text is often not discernable.	Meeting Student articulates the words somewhat clearly and the text can be understood most of the time.	Advanced Student articulates clearly and the text of the music is understandable.
Expression and Style	Not Meeting Rarely demonstrated expression and style. Just sings the notes.	Progressing Sometimes performs with nuance and style that is indicated in the score or which is suggested by instructor or peer.	Meeting Typically performs with nuance and style that is indicated in the score or which is suggested by instructor or peer.	Advanced Performs with a creative nuance and style in response to the score and limited coaching. Follows melodic direction.

Keywords:

Singing rubric

Subjects:

Music

Types:

Presentation

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