Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Perform traditional Native American music and dances, focusing on tribes that are indigenous to Alabama.
- Perform music related to the Civil Rights Movement and describe its significance.
- Create a sound carpet for a Native American folk tale.
- Using knowledge of expressive qualities, choose music from Western cultural traditions (march, lullaby, etc.) to create a ballet based on a fairy tale or other story.
- Analyze the meaning and significance of lyrics found in music of the Civil Rights movement.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes
- Strong/ weak beat
- Steady beat/ rhythm
- Allegro/ adagio
- Pitch set: Mi, So, La
- Steps/ skips/ repeated notes
- Melodic direction
- Modified staff
- Line notes and space notes
- Rhythmic ostinati
- Simple bordun
- AB, ABA
- Legato, staccato
- Piano (p), forte (f)
- Classroom instrument classifications
- Clarinet, trombone, cello, drum
- Orchestral music: ballet
- Non-Western music celebrations
- Proper singing posture
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (C4 - C5)1
- Mallet/ drumming technique — hands together
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
