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

AE17.MU.TEE.AC.15

Evaluate works and performances based on research as well as personally-developed and collaboratively-developed criteria, including analysis and interpretation of the structure and context.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?

Skills Examples

Choral
Performing
  • Independently prepare and accurately perform a varied repertoire of ensemble and solo music showing continuous improvement in performance ability, advanced technique, and complexity.
  • Sing advanced literature demonstrating accurate intonation and rhythm, fundamental skills and a high degree of musicality.
Creating
  • Improvise over chord progressions and symbols provided by the instructor.
  • Identify the elements of music across musical styles and world cultures.
  • Interpret music symbols in terms of historical and stylistic contexts.
Reading/ Writing
  • Identify the tonality of a given work in relation to intervals, scales, primary and secondary chords, and key relationships.
  • Demonstrate sight-reading abilities at an advanced level of complexity.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Apply assessment practices to select, organize and present personal works to show growth and development of musical skills and literacy.

Instrumental
Performing
  • Perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures alone and in ensembles.
Creating
  • Interpret articulations, expressive symbols, and terms while performing.
  • Identify and trace the development of music forms across historical periods.
  • Listen to, analyze and describe various music works on the basis of their stylistic qualities and the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.
  • Describe the elements of music and their functions.
  • Identify traditional harmonic progressions in selected repertoire. Identify musical forms used in vocal and instrumental genres from world cultures.
  • Describe how music reflects the social and political events of history and the role of the musician in history and culture.
Reading/ Writing
  • Discuss how the purpose, meaning, and value of music changes because of the impact of life experiences.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Apply assessment practices to demonstrate the learning and progress made in their development of music skill and music literacy.
  • Describe how the use of elements of music affects the aesthetic impact of a music selection.
  • Describe the use of elements of music as they relate to expression in a varied repertoire of music.

Vocabulary

Choral
Rhythm
  • Mixed meter
  • Syncopation
Melody
  • Full chromatic scale
  • Modal melodies
  • Minor scale
Harmony
  • Chromatic mediant and submediant chords
  • Counter melodies
  • Harmonic sequences
Form
  • Various cultural forms
Expression
  • 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
Melody
  • Double Flat
  • Double Sharp
  • Relative Minor
  • Pure Minor
  • Natural Minor
Harmony
  • Monophony
  • Polyphony
  • Homophony
  • Tonic
  • Dominant
Form
  • Tonic
  • Dominant
  • Subdominant
  • Cadence
  • Imitation
  • Counterpoint
  • Rondo

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
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