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
- Choose appropriate music for performance based on context and personal preference.
- Compose music for a specific event/holiday, such as an honors program or patriotic celebration.
- Using notation software such as Finale, notate musical compositions that relate to a specific event/holiday.
- Identify eras of music such as Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Twentieth Century, and contemporary music, and connect them with events in World History.
- Describe how the process of learning in music connects to learning in other arts and other subject areas.
- Defend interpretations of music via dance, drama and visual art using appropriate vocabulary.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Pitch set: Do-centered diatonic
- Treble clef reading (choral octavos)
- Grand staff
- Bass clef
- Accidentals
- Major scale
- Part singing/ playing
- Chord progression (I, IV, V)
- Arpeggio
- Descant
- Level bordun
- Rondo form
- 12-Bar blues
- Vibrato
- Tremolo
- Reggae
- Blues
- Timbre: soprano, alto, tenor, bass
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (Ab3-F5)
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
