Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 06-12 - Music

AE17.MU.TEE.P.5

Share personally-developed melodies, rhythmic passages, and arrangements–individually or as an ensemble - that address identified purposes.

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Essential Questions

EU: Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
EQ: How do performers select repertoire?

Skills Examples

Choral
Performing
  • Perform excerpts with stylistic accuracy relative to its historical period or the historical period of its inspiration.
  • Demonstrate mastery of a variety of historical performance practices.
Creating
  • Improvise melodies consistent with the styles of the historical periods studied in rehearsal.
  • Adapt original and/or pre-existing music to the styles of various historical periods studied in rehearsal.
Reading/ Writing
  • Create and share 8-16 measure three- and four-part rhythmic and melodic exercises using standard notation within teacher-provided guidelines.
  • Compose exercises employing a variety of historical styles and genres (e.g., madrigal, chorale, recitative, etc.).
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Identify stylistic and historical influences in notated music.
  • Determine similarities and differences among pieces of music from various historical periods.
  • Evaluate the historical authenticity of commercially published music.

Instrumental
Performing
  • Using the proper embouchure, breath support, articulation, and release, produce a characteristic tone within the practical range of the assigned instrument(s) at dynamic ranges between pianissimo and fortissimo.
  • On a steady beat and at slow to quick tempi, clap, speak on neutral syllables, count aloud, and play on instruments given rhythmic patterns using quarter and eighth note triplets in a variety of meters.
  • Play the concert Db, D, and G scales with arpeggios (winds and percussion). Play scales and arpeggios up to three flats and three sharps (strings). Play the eleven-stroke roll, thirteen-stroke roll, seventeen-stroke roll, single drag, double drag, single ratamacue, triple ratamacue, and controlled open long roll rudiments (percussion). Play a two-octave chromatic scale (winds and percussion).
  • Play alone and with others, music graded 2.5 to 3 and medium.
Creating
  • Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length within given parameters.
  • Compose simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length within given parameters using standard music notation.
  • Improvise call and responses.
Reading/ Writing
  • Read given rhythmic notation using quarter and eighth note triplets in a variety of meters.
  • Identify by name, define, and/or notate common musical elements (caesura, tremolo, etc.).
  • Identify the form of large works.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to and identify intervals by ear.
  • Listen to and echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length using body percussion, the voice, and instruments.
  • Listen to and dictate simple rhythmic patterns up to 8 measures in length using quarter and eighth note triplets in a variety of meters.
  • Listen to and dictate simple melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length within a given range.
  • Listen to, analyze, describe, and evaluate a variety of live and recorded music performed by self, peers, instructors, and professional soloists and ensembles.

Vocabulary

Choral
Rhythm
  • Triplets
Melody
  • Natural minor scale and arpeggio
  • Harmonic minor scale and arpeggio
  • Melodic minor scale and arpeggio
  • Raised fourth scale degree
  • Lowered seventh scale degree
Harmony
  • Three- and four-part homophony
  • Secondary dominant
Form
  • Motet
  • Madrigal
  • Recitative
  • Chorale
Expression
  • Sforzando
  • Expressive intent
  • Energy
  • Articulation
  • Style
  • Mood
  • Accent
Other
  • Purpose
  • Genre
  • Rubric
  • Refinement

Instrumental
Rhythm
  • Quarter Note Triplets
  • Eighth Note Triplets
  • Tempo
    • Lento
    • Allegro
Harmony
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Monophonic
  • Homophonic
  • Polyphonic
Form
  • Binary
  • AB
  • Ternary
  • ABA
  • Strophic
  • Through-Composed
Expression
  • Ritardando
  • Accelerando
  • Caesura
  • Poco a poco
  • Marcato
  • Sforzando
  • MartelĂ©
  • Tremolo
  • Multiple-Note Slur
  • Hooked Bowings
Other
  • Call and Response

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
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