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AE17.MU.T.AC.3

Develop and implement varied strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisational skills.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Reproduce music literature from a variety of historical periods, styles, and cultures.
  • Incorporate music technology and digital tools in performing or recorded music.
  • Improvise over familiar melodies using accompaniment software.
  • Improvise over familiar melodies using sequencing software.
Creating
  • Improvise and compose short compositions using a variety of digital tools and technology.
  • Demonstrate technical accuracy while using various digital tools.
  • Demonstrate proper signal flow when using digital tools
  • Describe equalization and mastering techniques.
Reading/ Writing
  • Identify analog and digital recording and editing techniques.
  • Identify music forms used in vocal and instrumental genres from various historical periods.
  • Discuss and analyze signal flow as it relates to audio interface connections.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Analyze and describe how form and technique help to convey the meaning of a given piece of music.
  • Trace the development of electronic music and digital tools from the 1980's to the present.
  • Discuss and write about the importance of intellectual property rights as it relates to music technology.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

AE17.MU.T.AC.4

Share compositions and improvisations that demonstrate an accomplished level of musical and technological craftsmanship as well as the use of digital and analog tools and resources in developingand organizing musical ideas.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians' presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
EQ: When is creative work ready to share?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Reproduce music literature from a variety of historical periods, styles, and cultures.
  • Incorporate music technology and digital tools in performing or recorded music.
  • Improvise over familiar melodies using accompaniment software.
  • Improvise over familiar melodies using sequencing software.
Creating
  • Improvise and compose short compositions using a variety of digital tools and technology.
  • Demonstrate technical accuracy while using various digital tools.
  • Demonstrate proper signal flow when using digital tools
  • Describe equalization and mastering techniques.
Reading/ Writing
  • Identify analog and digital recording and editing techniques.
  • Identify music forms used in vocal and instrumental genres from various historical periods.
  • Discuss and analyze signal flow as it relates to audio interface connections.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Analyze and describe how form and technique help to convey the meaning of a given piece of music.
  • Trace the development of electronic music and digital tools from the 1980's to the present.
  • Discuss and write about the importance of intellectual property rights as it relates to music technology.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.

AE17.MU.T.AC.5

Develop and apply criteria to select a varied repertoire to study and perform based on interest, an understanding of theoretical and structural characteristics of the music, and the performer’s technical skill using digital tools and resources.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
EQ: How do performers select repertoire?

Skills Examples

IMPORTANT NOTE
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
  • Select from your electronically created or notated works which one or ones you want to share publicly on your school's website, or in another public forum.
  • Using virtual instruments, rehearse creating live, on the spot, music where you make rhythmic, melodic, and timbral decisions.
  • Using an original background track, improvise over that track using virtual instruments. Record your improvisation and listen back.
Creating
  • Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.) create loops that use both melody and percussive rhythm instruments
  • Use original loops to create musical Binary, Ternary, Strophic, etc. forms.
  • Use a tablet or other portable recording device and record different sounds in your environment. Use those sounds as part of an overall electronic work.
Reading/ Writing
  • Using notation software, notate your melodic loop (motif) and then create a logical chordal harmony for your melody.
  • Using notation software notate a 2-3 measure rhythmic motif you created using sequencing or audio recording software.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to a peer's electronic musical work and provide feedback based on your interpretation of the music for three musical areas (choose three from: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, choice of electronic tools).

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

AE17.MU.T.AC.6

Describe and demonstrate how context, theoretical and structural aspects of the music, and digital media/tools inform and influence prepared and improvised performances.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?

Skills Examples

IMPORTANT NOTE
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
  • Select from your electronically created or notated works which one or ones you want to share publicly on your school's website, or in another public forum.
  • Using virtual instruments, rehearse creating live, on the spot, music where you make rhythmic, melodic, and timbral decisions.
  • Using an original background track, improvise over that track using virtual instruments. Record your improvisation and listen back.
Creating
  • Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.) create loops that use both melody and percussive rhythm instruments
  • Use original loops to create musical Binary, Ternary, Strophic, etc. forms.
  • Use a tablet or other portable recording device and record different sounds in your environment. Use those sounds as part of an overall electronic work.
Reading/ Writing
  • Using notation software, notate your melodic loop (motif) and then create a logical chordal harmony for your melody.
  • Using notation software notate a 2-3 measure rhythmic motif you created using sequencing or audio recording software.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to a peer's electronic musical work and provide feedback based on your interpretation of the music for three musical areas (choose three from: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, choice of electronic tools).

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

AE17.MU.T.AC.7

Demonstrate how understanding the style, genre, context, and use of digital tools and resources in a varied repertoire of music influences prepared or improvised performances and performers’ ability to connect with audiences.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent
EQ: How do performers interpret musical works?

Skills Examples

IMPORTANT NOTE
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
  • Select from your electronically created or notated works which one or ones you want to share publicly on your school's website, or in another public forum.
  • Using virtual instruments, rehearse creating live, on the spot, music where you make rhythmic, melodic, and timbral decisions.
  • Using an original background track, improvise over that track using virtual instruments. Record your improvisation and listen back.
Creating
  • Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.) create loops that use both melody and percussive rhythm instruments
  • Use original loops to create musical Binary, Ternary, Strophic, etc. forms.
  • Use a tablet or other portable recording device and record different sounds in your environment. Use those sounds as part of an overall electronic work.
Reading/ Writing
  • Using notation software, notate your melodic loop (motif) and then create a logical chordal harmony for your melody.
  • Using notation software notate a 2-3 measure rhythmic motif you created using sequencing or audio recording software.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to a peer's electronic musical work and provide feedback based on your interpretation of the music for three musical areas (choose three from: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, choice of electronic tools).

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

AE17.MU.T.AC.8

Develop and implement rehearsal strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of prepared and improvised performances in a varied repertoire of music.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?

Skills Examples

IMPORTANT NOTE
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
  • Select from your electronically created or notated works which one or ones you want to share publicly on your school's website, or in another public forum.
  • Using virtual instruments, rehearse creating live, on the spot, music where you make rhythmic, melodic, and timbral decisions.
  • Using an original background track, improvise over that track using virtual instruments. Record your improvisation and listen back.
Creating
  • Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.) create loops that use both melody and percussive rhythm instruments
  • Use original loops to create musical Binary, Ternary, Strophic, etc. forms.
  • Use a tablet or other portable recording device and record different sounds in your environment. Use those sounds as part of an overall electronic work.
Reading/ Writing
  • Using notation software, notate your melodic loop (motif) and then create a logical chordal harmony for your melody.
  • Using notation software notate a 2-3 measure rhythmic motif you created using sequencing or audio recording software.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to a peer's electronic musical work and provide feedback based on your interpretation of the music for three musical areas (choose three from: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, choice of electronic tools).

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

AE17.MU.T.AC.9

Using digital tools and resources, demonstrate technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?

Skills Examples

IMPORTANT NOTE
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
  • Select from your electronically created or notated works which one or ones you want to share publicly on your school's website, or in another public forum.
  • Using virtual instruments, rehearse creating live, on the spot, music where you make rhythmic, melodic, and timbral decisions.
  • Using an original background track, improvise over that track using virtual instruments. Record your improvisation and listen back.
Creating
  • Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.) create loops that use both melody and percussive rhythm instruments
  • Use original loops to create musical Binary, Ternary, Strophic, etc. forms.
  • Use a tablet or other portable recording device and record different sounds in your environment. Use those sounds as part of an overall electronic work.
Reading/ Writing
  • Using notation software, notate your melodic loop (motif) and then create a logical chordal harmony for your melody.
  • Using notation software notate a 2-3 measure rhythmic motif you created using sequencing or audio recording software.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to a peer's electronic musical work and provide feedback based on your interpretation of the music for three musical areas (choose three from: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, choice of electronic tools).

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

AE17.MU.T.AC.10

Demonstrate an understanding of the expressive intent.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?

Skills Examples

IMPORTANT NOTE
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
  • Select from your electronically created or notated works which one or ones you want to share publicly on your school's website, or in another public forum.
  • Using virtual instruments, rehearse creating live, on the spot, music where you make rhythmic, melodic, and timbral decisions.
  • Using an original background track, improvise over that track using virtual instruments. Record your improvisation and listen back.
Creating
  • Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.) create loops that use both melody and percussive rhythm instruments
  • Use original loops to create musical Binary, Ternary, Strophic, etc. forms.
  • Use a tablet or other portable recording device and record different sounds in your environment. Use those sounds as part of an overall electronic work.
Reading/ Writing
  • Using notation software, notate your melodic loop (motif) and then create a logical chordal harmony for your melody.
  • Using notation software notate a 2-3 measure rhythmic motif you created using sequencing or audio recording software.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to a peer's electronic musical work and provide feedback based on your interpretation of the music for three musical areas (choose three from: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, choice of electronic tools).

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

AE17.MU.T.AC.11

Select and critique contrasting musical works, defending opinions based on manipulations of the elements of music, digital and electronic aspects, and the purpose and context of the works.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Edit, mix and produce a new composition using various digital tools.
  • Use a synthesizer to create various sounds.
  • Transpose an existing piece of music using digital tools.
Creating
  • Employ various compositional techniques to compose a short work using digital tools.
  • Interpret and employ expressive markings in musical scores.
  • Create original melodies using traditional notation, sequencing or digital recording software.
  • Effectively trim an audio clip.
Reading/ Writing
  • Explain the role of technology in researching, creating, performing and listening to music.
  • Identify compositional techniques used to provide unity and variety, tension and release in musical works.
  • Identify and describe effects used in a recording- delay, sampling, looping, pan, etc.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Compare the methodology and interpretation of two or more performances, live, sequenced or recorded, of the same music.
  • Analyze and describe how a synthesizer produces various sounds.
  • Research and report about the development of Music Concréte and its role in electronic music.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.

AE17.MU.T.AC.12

Explain how an analysis of the structure, context, and technological aspects of the music informs the audience’s or performer’s response.

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Essential Questions

EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Edit, mix and produce a new composition using various digital tools.
  • Use a synthesizer to create various sounds.
  • Transpose an existing piece of music using digital tools.
Creating
  • Employ various compositional techniques to compose a short work using digital tools.
  • Interpret and employ expressive markings in musical scores.
  • Create original melodies using traditional notation, sequencing or digital recording software.
  • Effectively trim an audio clip.
Reading/ Writing
  • Explain the role of technology in researching, creating, performing and listening to music.
  • Identify compositional techniques used to provide unity and variety, tension and release in musical works.
  • Identify and describe effects used in a recording- delay, sampling, looping, pan, etc.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Compare the methodology and interpretation of two or more performances, live, sequenced or recorded, of the same music.
  • Analyze and describe how a synthesizer produces various sounds.
  • Research and report about the development of Music Concréte and its role in electronic music.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

AE17.MU.T.AC.13

Connect the influence of the treatment of the elements of music, digital and electronic features, context, purpose, and other art forms to the expressive intent of musical works.

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Essential Questions

EU: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
EQ: How do we discern musical creators' and performers' expressive intent?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Edit, mix and produce a new composition using various digital tools.
  • Use a synthesizer to create various sounds.
  • Transpose an existing piece of music using digital tools.
Creating
  • Employ various compositional techniques to compose a short work using digital tools.
  • Interpret and employ expressive markings in musical scores.
  • Create original melodies using traditional notation, sequencing or digital recording software.
  • Effectively trim an audio clip.
Reading/ Writing
  • Explain the role of technology in researching, creating, performing and listening to music.
  • Identify compositional techniques used to provide unity and variety, tension and release in musical works.
  • Identify and describe effects used in a recording- delay, sampling, looping, pan, etc.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Compare the methodology and interpretation of two or more performances, live, sequenced or recorded, of the same music.
  • Analyze and describe how a synthesizer produces various sounds.
  • Research and report about the development of Music Concréte and its role in electronic music.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

AE17.MU.T.AC.14

Apply criteria to evaluate music based on analysis, interpretation, artistic intent, digital, electronic, and analog features, and musical qualities.

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Essential Questions

EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Edit, mix and produce a new composition using various digital tools.
  • Use a synthesizer to create various sounds.
  • Transpose an existing piece of music using digital tools.
Creating
  • Employ various compositional techniques to compose a short work using digital tools.
  • Interpret and employ expressive markings in musical scores.
  • Create original melodies using traditional notation, sequencing or digital recording software.
  • Effectively trim an audio clip.
Reading/ Writing
  • Explain the role of technology in researching, creating, performing and listening to music.
  • Identify compositional techniques used to provide unity and variety, tension and release in musical works.
  • Identify and describe effects used in a recording- delay, sampling, looping, pan, etc.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Compare the methodology and interpretation of two or more performances, live, sequenced or recorded, of the same music.
  • Analyze and describe how a synthesizer produces various sounds.
  • Research and report about the development of Music Concréte and its role in electronic music.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Click Track
  • Compound Meter
  • Duple
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Simple Meter
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
  • Triple
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • Bit
  • Bouncing (to)
  • Byte
  • Compress/ Compression
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
  • Digital Audio
  • Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Effect(s)
  • Equalization
  • Event List
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • MIDI Controller
  • Panning
  • Patch
  • Piano Roll
  • Reverb (Reverberation)
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Synthesizer
  • Streaming
  • Sample (as in live instrument sample)
  • Sampling Rate
  • Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

AE17.MU.T.AD.1

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for compositions and improvisations that incorporate digital tools, resources, and systems.

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Essential Questions

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Compose original music based on stimuli from dance, theater, visual art and other media arts.
  • Record and edit multitrack digital audio and master to portable media.
  • Demonstrate proficiency while using equalization and mastering techniques.
Creating
  • Improvise, compose and arrange music using various digital tools.
  • Create or arrange a large multi-track music compositions utilizing sequencing software.
  • Reproduce/ Create medium to large scale music scores utilizing standard music notation software.
Reading/ Writing
  • Explain the concept of sound design.
  • Explain the concept of a computer based studio.
  • Produce a journal or portfolio that records the creative process.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Identify various applications of music in multimedia, and complete projects involving multimedia such as, film/video, the internet, and graphic presentations.
  • Compare and contrast various DAW software programs.
  • Demonstrate critical listening skills in order to improve the quality of a mix.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Asymmetrical
  • Measure
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Polyrhythm
  • Symmetrical
  • Syncopation
  • Velocity
Melody
  • Audio Interface
  • Effects
  • Envelope
  • Gain/ Gain Staging
  • Sound Wave
  • Inversion/ Retrograde
  • Key Signature (Major, Minor, Modal)
  • Monophonic
  • Motif
  • Theme
  • Tonality
  • Transpose
Harmony
  • Harmonic Progression
  • Harmonics (Overtones)
  • Homophony
  • Modulation
  • Part Writing
  • Polyphony
  • Suspension
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Cadenza
  • Dubbing/ Overdub
  • Head (Jazz Reference)
  • Improvised Solo
  • Mapping
  • Rondo
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Crossfade
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Portamento
  • Slurring
  • Velocity
Other
  • Clipping
  • College and Career Opportunities as a Music Technologist
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Directional
  • Effect(s)
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • Omnidirectional
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Room (wet, dry, live, etc.)
  • Transcribe/ Transcription
  • Virtual Instruments
  • Waveform manipulation

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

AE17.MU.T.AD.2

Select, develop, and organize multiple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas to develop into a larger work that exhibits unity, variety, complexity, and coherence using digital and analog tools, resources, and systems.

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Essential Questions

EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Compose original music based on stimuli from dance, theater, visual art and other media arts.
  • Record and edit multitrack digital audio and master to portable media.
  • Demonstrate proficiency while using equalization and mastering techniques.
Creating
  • Improvise, compose and arrange music using various digital tools.
  • Create or arrange a large multi-track music compositions utilizing sequencing software.
  • Reproduce/ Create medium to large scale music scores utilizing standard music notation software.
Reading/ Writing
  • Explain the concept of sound design.
  • Explain the concept of a computer based studio.
  • Produce a journal or portfolio that records the creative process.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Identify various applications of music in multimedia, and complete projects involving multimedia such as, film/video, the internet, and graphic presentations.
  • Compare and contrast various DAW software programs.
  • Demonstrate critical listening skills in order to improve the quality of a mix.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Asymmetrical
  • Measure
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Polyrhythm
  • Symmetrical
  • Syncopation
  • Velocity
Melody
  • Audio Interface
  • Effects
  • Envelope
  • Gain/ Gain Staging
  • Sound Wave
  • Inversion/ Retrograde
  • Key Signature (Major, Minor, Modal)
  • Monophonic
  • Motif
  • Theme
  • Tonality
  • Transpose
Harmony
  • Harmonic Progression
  • Harmonics (Overtones)
  • Homophony
  • Modulation
  • Part Writing
  • Polyphony
  • Suspension
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Cadenza
  • Dubbing/ Overdub
  • Head (Jazz Reference)
  • Improvised Solo
  • Mapping
  • Rondo
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Crossfade
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Portamento
  • Slurring
  • Velocity
Other
  • Clipping
  • College and Career Opportunities as a Music Technologist
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Directional
  • Effect(s)
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • Omnidirectional
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Room (wet, dry, live, etc.)
  • Transcribe/ Transcription
  • Virtual Instruments
  • Waveform manipulation

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

AE17.MU.T.AD.3

Develop and implement varied strategies and apply appropriate criteria to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisations.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Compose original music based on stimuli from dance, theater, visual art and other media arts.
  • Record and edit multitrack digital audio and master to portable media.
  • Demonstrate proficiency while using equalization and mastering techniques.
Creating
  • Improvise, compose and arrange music using various digital tools.
  • Create or arrange a large multi-track music compositions utilizing sequencing software.
  • Reproduce/ Create medium to large scale music scores utilizing standard music notation software.
Reading/ Writing
  • Explain the concept of sound design.
  • Explain the concept of a computer based studio.
  • Produce a journal or portfolio that records the creative process.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Identify various applications of music in multimedia, and complete projects involving multimedia such as, film/video, the internet, and graphic presentations.
  • Compare and contrast various DAW software programs.
  • Demonstrate critical listening skills in order to improve the quality of a mix.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Asymmetrical
  • Measure
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Polyrhythm
  • Symmetrical
  • Syncopation
  • Velocity
Melody
  • Audio Interface
  • Effects
  • Envelope
  • Gain/ Gain Staging
  • Sound Wave
  • Inversion/ Retrograde
  • Key Signature (Major, Minor, Modal)
  • Monophonic
  • Motif
  • Theme
  • Tonality
  • Transpose
Harmony
  • Harmonic Progression
  • Harmonics (Overtones)
  • Homophony
  • Modulation
  • Part Writing
  • Polyphony
  • Suspension
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Cadenza
  • Dubbing/ Overdub
  • Head (Jazz Reference)
  • Improvised Solo
  • Mapping
  • Rondo
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Crossfade
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Portamento
  • Slurring
  • Velocity
Other
  • Clipping
  • College and Career Opportunities as a Music Technologist
  • Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
  • Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
  • Digital Citizenship
  • Directional
  • Effect(s)
  • Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
  • Omnidirectional
  • Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
  • Room (wet, dry, live, etc.)
  • Transcribe/ Transcription
  • Virtual Instruments
  • Waveform manipulation

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
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