Unpacked Content
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?
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Performing
- Read rhythmic notation aloud using a consistent system (e.g., counting, neutral syllables, etc.).
- Read melodic notation aloud using a consistent system (e.g., numbers, solfege, etc.). Creating
- Improvise 4-8 beat rhythms using body percussion and call/ response.
- Improvise 4-beat melodic patterns using visual stimuli and call/ response.
- Collaborate to synthesize original compositions with peers using improvised elements. Reading/ Writing
- Create and share 8-16 measure unison rhythmic and melodic exercises using standard notation within teacher-provided guidelines. Responding/ Evaluating
- Identify thematic elements and repetition in notated music.
- Identify challenging elements in notated music.
- Assemble, disassemble, and perform routine maintenance on the assigned instrument(s).
- Hold the assigned instrument(s) with appropriate posture.
- Using the proper embouchure, breath support, articulation, and release, produce a characteristic tone in the middle register at dynamic ranges between piano and forte (Winds).
- Perform pizzicato, up and down bows with a detaché bow stroke with 2 to 4 slurred notes (Strings).
- On a steady beat and at slow to medium tempi, clap, speak on neutral syllables, count aloud, and play on instruments given rhythmic patterns using whole, half, quarter, eighth notes and rests and dotted half notes in 4/4, common, 2/4, and 3/4 meters.
- On a steady beat and at slow to medium, speak the letter names of and sing on pitch and/or using solfege melodic notation within a given range.
- Play the concert Bb, Eb, and Ab scales with arpeggios (winds and percussion). Play a one octave concert C, G, D, and A scales with arpeggios (strings). Play five-stroke roll, nine-stroke rolls, flam, single paradiddle, and flamacue rudiments (percussion). Play a one octave chromatic scale (winds and percussion).
- Play alone and with others, music graded .5 to 1 and beginner to very easy.
- Complete unfinished compositions using standard music notation.
- Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic patterns of 1-2 measures within given parameters.
- Compose simple rhythmic and melodic patterns of 1-2 measures within given parameters using standard music notation.
- Read given rhythmic notation using whole, half, quarter, eighth, and dotted half notes and rests in 4/4, common, 2/4, and 3/4 meters.
- Read melodic notation within the middle register of the assigned instruments(s).
- Identify by name and notate common musical elements (staff, clefs, rhythms, etc.).
- Identify parts of the assigned instrument(s).
- Listen to and identify intervals by ear.
- Listen to and echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns 1 to 2 measures in length using body percussion, the voice, and instruments.
- Listen to and dictate simple rhythmic patterns 1 to 2 measures in length using whole, half, quarter, eighth, and dotted half notes and rests in 4/4, common, 2/4, and 3/4 meters.
- Listen to and dictate simple melodic patterns 1 to 2 measures in length within a given range.
- Listen to a variety of live and recorded music performed by self, peers, instructors, and professional soloists and ensembles.
- Listen to live and recorded music from a variety of time periods and cultures, of varying styles, from various composers.
- Recognize conducting patterns used in 4/4, common, 2/4, and 3/4 meters.
Instrumental
Performing
Vocabulary
Choral
Rhythm
Instrumental
Rhythm
Rhythm
- Measure
- Bar line
- Time signature
- Simple meter
- Common time
- 2/4 time
- Whole note/ rest
- Half note/ rest
- Quarter note/ rest
- Eighth note/ rest
- Tempo
- Head voice/ chest voice
- Staff
- Clef (treble and bass)
- Major key signature
- Diatonic major scale
- Tonic major arpeggio
- Pitch
- Stepwise motion
- Skip motion
- Unison
- 2-part singing
- Vocal ostinati
- Imitative harmony (canon, etc.)
- Phrase
- Verse
- Chorus
- Section
- AB
- ABA
- Repeat sign
- Balance/ blend
- Phrasing
- Dynamics: pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo
- Uniform vowels
- Fermata
- Sharps
- Flats
- Naturals
- Diction
- Posture
- Performance etiquette
- Correct breathing
Instrumental
Rhythm
- Beat
- Tempo
- Adagio
- Andante
- Moderato
- Counting System
- Simple Meter
- Time Signature
- 4/4
- Common
- 2/4
- 3/4
- Barline
- Measure/ Bar
- Whole Note & Rest
- Half Note & Rest
- Quarter Note & Rest
- Eighth Note & Rest
- Dotted Half Note
- Tie
- Pick-up Note
- Rudiment
- Staff
- Clef
- Treble
- Bass
- Alto
- Key Signature
- Sharp
- Flat
- Natural
- Accidental
- Pitch
- Range
- Register
- Middle Register
- Tonality
- Major
- Diatonic
- Chromatic
- Scale
- Arpeggio
- Half-Step
- Whole-Step
- Stepwise Motion
- Intervals
- Unison
- Solo
- Duet
- Tutti
- Chord
- Progression
- Phrase
- Repeats/ Repeat Sign
- Double Bar Line
- Dynamic
- Piano
- Mezzo Piano
- Mezzo Forte
- Forte
- Articulation
- Tonguing
- Slurring
- Accent
- Legato
- Staccato
- Detaché
- Pizzicato
- Breath Mark
- Posture
- Instrument Carriage
- Instrument Assembly
- Instrument Maintenance
- Embouchure
- Grip
- Characteristic Tone Quality
- Tone Color
- Range
- Timbre
- Breathing
- Support
- Sustain
- Release
- Intonation
- Balance
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
