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
Instrumental
Performing
Performing
- Perform musical passages with technique and expression characteristic of music or text studied in rehearsal.
- Experiment with different stylistic performances of musical passages.
- Improvise rhythms and melodies representative of the stylistic characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.
- Create and share 8-16 measure unison/two-part rhythmic and melodic exercises using standard notation within teacher-provided guidelines.
- Create notated exercises representative of the stylistic characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.
- Identify characteristics common to music studied in rehearsal.
- Identify relationships between music and text.
Instrumental
Performing
- Using the proper embouchure, breath support, articulation, and release, produce a characteristic tone in the middle register at dynamic ranges between pianissimo and fortissimo.
- Demonstrate a clear and consistent tone on a stringed instrument with the ability to control the bows proximity from the bridge and fingerboard to create dynamic contrasts between pianissimo and fortissimo ((strings).
- Play legato bowings and slur across strings (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 sixteenth notes and rests and dotted half and dotted quarter notes in 4/4, common, 2/4, 3/4, 6/8 meters, and cut time.
- Play the concert F and C scales with arpeggios (winds and percussion). Play the F and Bb major scale and d and g minor scales with arpeggios (strings) . Play seven-stroke roll, flam accent, flam paradiddle, ruff, double paradiddle, and controlled open roll rudiments (percussion).
- Play alone and with others, music graded 1.5 to 2 and easy to medium easy.
- Complete unfinished compositions using standard music notation.
- Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 4 measures in length within given parameters.
- Compose simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 4 measures in length within given parameters using standard music notation.
- Given a call, improvise a response.
- Read given rhythmic notation using sixteenth notes and rests and dotted half and dotted quarter notes in 4/4, common, 2/4, 3/4, 6/8 meters, and cut time.
- Identify by name and notate common musical elements (endings, codas, etc.).
- Demonstrate the construction of a major scale using the whole step-half step pattern.
- Listen to and identify intervals by ear.
- Listen to and echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 4 measures in length using body percussion, the voice, and instruments.
- Listen to and dictate simple rhythmic patterns up to 4 measures in length using sixteenth notes and rests and dotted half and dotted quarter notes in 4/4, common, 2/4, 3/4, 6/8 meters, and cut time.
- Listen to and dictate simple melodic patterns up to 4 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 to evaluate and describe tone quality.
- Recognize conducting patterns used in 4/4, common, 2/4, 3/4, and 6/8 meters and cut time.
Vocabulary
Choral
Rhythm
Instrumental
Rhythm
Rhythm
- Sixteenth notes
- Dotted notes/ rhythms
- Compound meter
- 3/4 time
- 6/8 time
- Cut time
- Beat
- Tempo
- Syncopated rhythm
- Intervals of thirds, fourths, and fifths
- Subdominant arpeggio
- Dominant arpeggio
- Relative minor
- Soprano, alto, tenor, bass
- 3-part singing (SSA, TTB, SAB)
- 4-part singing (SATB, SSAA, TTBB)
- Chord progression
- Rondo
- D.S. al Coda
- D.C. al Coda
- Legato
- Staccato
- Tenuto
- Accent
- Intonation
Instrumental
Rhythm
- Dotted Quarter Note
- Sixteenth Note & Rest
- Compound Meter
- 6/8
- Cut Time
- Syncopation
- Minor
- Theme
- Upper Register
- Lower Register
- Conjunct
- Disjunct
- Texture
- Orchestration
- Endings
- Dal Segno (D.S.)
- Da Capo (D.C.)
- Coda
- Fin
- Pianissimo
- Fortissimo
- Crescendo
- Decrescendo
- Diminuendo
- Fermata
- Alternate Fingerings
- Conducting Patterns
- Gesture
- Cue
- Cutoff
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
