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 music in a manner that is appropriate to the context of its culture of origin.
- Publicly present music in a manner that is consistent with the culture of its origin or inspiration.
- Improvise melodies representative of distinct cultures studied in rehearsal.
- Adapt pre-existing music to the styles of various cultures studied in rehearsal.
- Create and share 16-32 measure three- and four-part rhythmic and melodic exercises using standard notation within teacher-provided guidelines.
- Create and share rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic exercises representative of distinct cultural styles studied in rehearsal.
- Identify cultural influences in notated music.
- Discuss the origins or reasoning behind cultural composition or performance practices.
- Evaluate the cultural authenticity of commercially published music.
Instrumental
Performing
- Clap, speak on neutral syllables, count aloud, and play on instruments given rhythmic patterns in 5/4, 6/4, 3/8, 9/8, and 12/8 meters.
- Play all major scales and arpeggios (winds, strings, percussion).
- Play pure minor scales and arpeggios (winds. strings, percussion).
- Demonstrate a combination of mature tone, good pitch center, and proper balance when performing as a member of a group.
- Play alone and with others, music graded 3.5 to 4 and medium advanced.
- Given an accompaniment, compose melodic lines up to 16 measures in length within given parameters using standard music notation.
- Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 16 measures in length within given parameters.
- Read given rhythmic and melodic notation in 5/4, 6/4, 3/8, 9/8, and 12/8 meters.
- Demonstrate the construction of a natural minor scale using the whole step-half step pattern.
- Listen to, analyze, describe, and evaluate a variety of live and recorded music performed by self, peers, instructors, and professional soloists and ensembles with respect to tone, intonation, balance, technique, interpretation, musical effect, and stage deportment.
- Describe ways in which concepts of music relate to concepts in other disciplines.
Vocabulary
Choral
Rhythm
Instrumental
Rhythm
Rhythm
- Mixed meter
- Syncopation
- Full chromatic scale
- Modal melodies
- Minor scale
- Chromatic mediant and submediant chords
- Counter melodies
- Harmonic sequences
- Various cultural forms
- Various culture-specific expressive techniques (ululation, overtone singing, etc.)
- Creative intent
- Stylistic characteristics
- Facial expression
- Historical context
- Cultural context
- Artistic delivery
Instrumental
Rhythm
- 5/4
- 6/4
- 3/8
- 9/8
- 12/8
- Largo
- Grave
- Vivace
- Presto
- Double Flat
- Double Sharp
- Relative Minor
- Pure Minor
- Natural Minor
- Monophony
- Polyphony
- Homophony
- Tonic
- Dominant
- Tonic
- Dominant
- Subdominant
- Cadence
- Imitation
- Counterpoint
- Rondo
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
