AE17.MU.4.1
Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific social and cultural purposes and contexts.
Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific social and cultural purposes and contexts.
Unpacked Content
UP:AE17.MU.4.1
Vocabulary
- Conducting patterns in
- Syncopation
- Pitch set: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, Ti
- Treble clef reading (La, So, Mi, Re, Do)
- Middle C through High B
- Create melodic sequences
- Half-step
- Whole step
- Canons
- Chord components
- Chord progression (I, V)
- Crossover bordun
- Phrasing: antecedent and consequent
- D.C. al coda
- Fine
- pp through ff
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
- Orchestra instruments within the 4 families
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (A3-E5)
Essential Questions
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Skills Examples
- With limited guidance, perform simple chord progressions on pitched instruments.
- Play a variety of classroom instruments with proper technique.
- Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture.
- With limited guidance, improvise or compose a 2-4 measure musical idea, a pentatonic melody, or a rhythm pattern using age-appropriate note values.
- Create vocal harmony using rounds, ostinati, canons and partner songs.
- Use notation and/or recording technology to document personal musical ideas.
- Describe the way sound is produced by various instruments and the human voice.
- Listen, identify and respond to music of different composers and world cultures.