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Music 150 Music Score Rubric

Criteria Full Credit Half Credit No Credit

Melody: 1 point Portray the melody your selected minute of music

Your score demonstrates a solid understanding of melody and depicts it in a clear/interesting/ creative way

You demonstrate partial understanding of melody, or you depict it in a lazy or unclear way

You neglect to depict melody at all

Rhythm: 1 point Portray the rhythm of your selected minute of music

Your score demonstrates a solid understanding of rhythm and depicts it in a clear/interesting/ creative way

You demonstrate some understanding of rhythm, or you depict it in a lazy or unclear way

You neglect to depict rhythm at all

Texture: 1 point Portray the texture of your selected minute of music

Your score demonstrates a solid understanding of what texture means and depicts the texture of your selected minute of music in a cool/clear way

You sort of demonstrate texture, or do so in a lazy way

You don’t deal with texture at all

Color: 1 point Use at least two colors to indicate something about the music

You use color in a cool or helpful way to symbolize certain chosen aspects of the music, and it’s clear what the colors indicate

You use only one color, or it’s unclear what the colors are meant to indicate

No color or totally unclear

Craftsmanship: 5 points Your score demonstrates careful work and planning; includes time stamps; describes entire minute of selected song; and is beautiful/compelling/ creative/ or interesting

Your notation is coherent and legible

You use time stamps so we can tell where we are in the song when we try to follow your score

You notate the entire minute of the song

Your score is cool in some way

Your score is legible but lacks coherence

And/or no time stamps And/or you neglect to

notate the entire minute And/or your score displays

a certain thoughtlessness or laziness or lack of effort

Your score is illegible or incoherent

No time stamp Impossible to follow or

incomplete Lazy (e.g. just ballpoint

pen squiggles on a ripped out piece of notebook paper, come on get real)

Essay: Perception: 2 points Identify what you hear in your selected minute in terms of melody, texture, rhythm, etc.

Full description, clear Patchy description, or unclear/ vague

No real description of specific musical elements

Essay: Response: 2 points Describe how what you hear in the music relates to your notation

Clear and thoughtful relationship between music and notation

Relationship between music and notation is unclear or only partially clear

You make no real attempt to describe the relationship between the music and your notation

Essay: Mechanics: 2 points

Essay is well organized, has clear structure, few or no grammar/ punctuation/spelling mistakes

Essay is somewhat disorganized; some grammar etc. mistakes

Essay is incoherent; many mistakes