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?
EQ: How do performers interpret musical works?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Play melodies on the recorder within an octave range, using a pleasing tone quality, both independently and collaboratively.
- Demonstrate proper posture, hand position and embouchure for playing the recorder.
- Demonstrate proper pitch control of notes in the lower register of the soprano recorder.
- Play two-part and three-part recorder arrangements.
- Perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures with appropriate dynamics and tempo.
- Play a variety of classroom instruments, independently or collaboratively, with increasingly complex rhythms and melodic phrases.
- Demonstrate a characteristic sound while singing unison or two-part songs.
- Sing descants to produce harmony.
- Demonstrate rhythmic augmentation and diminution in a familiar tune.
- Improvise, compose and arrange music.
- Read, write, perform, and compose rhythm patterns and simple melodies in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8.
- Identify members of the recorder family, including soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
- Identify the difference between duple and simple meter.
- Identify irregular meters such as, 7/8 and 5/4.
- Respond appropriately to the cues of a conductor.
- Attend live performances and demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette.
- Describe the characteristics used by the composer in a selected musical example to create a mood or effect.
- Recognize I, IV, and V chords in the context of a piece of music.
- Identify composite forms, such as, opera, oratorio, and musical theatre.
- Identify polyphonic texture.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Pitch set: La- centered diatonic (minor)
- Clef reading (diatonic)
- Octave
- Unison/ harmony
- Polyphonic
- 2-part songs
- 3-part songs
- Descant
- Bass clef
- Accompaniment
- AB form
- ABA form
- Form
- Canon
- Composer
- Composite forms
- Tone Quality
- Articulation
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (G3-G5)
- Historical periods
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
