Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Piano: Perform three or four pieces in contrasting styles (level comparable to Hal Leonard Piano Lessons Book C and D, Magrath Masterwork Classics Levels 3 and 4, American Popular Piano Repertoire Books 3 and 4, etc.).
- Piano: appropriate level scales and arpeggiated chords (comparable to AMTA requirements to Level I, by age level, on p. 11
- http://www.almta.org/AMTA_Member_Handbook.pdf
- Guitar: perform two contrasting solo pieces in first-second position.
- Equivalent to repertoire found in Levels "Introductory" through Level Two of the Guitar Studies and Repertoire Album (Royal Conservatory-Frederick Harris Publications).
- Guitar: demonstrate accompaniment to a folk song using principal chords, I, IV, V or V7 and demonstrate two contrasting strum patterns (i.e., D DuDuDu, or syncopated strum D, Du, u Du (D=down, U=Up strum).
- Define musical terms and tempo markings (i.e., Andante, Moderato, Allegro).
- Identify historical periods within music, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century, and identify two significant composers from each period.
- Identify key signatures for major keys, C, G, D, A, E, F, Bb, Eb.
- Compose a melody and harmonize it using chords, I, IV, V, vi.
- Determine if a piece is in a major of minor key based on the key signature, melody and harmony.
- Critique music performance based on interpretation, stylistic accuracy, attention to dynamics and phrasing, and overall execution.
- Discuss the differences between classical music and popular music and how the differences have evolved over time.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- meter
- time signature (with 6/8, 3/8, cut time
- eighth notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
- ties, accents, fermatas
- time signature (cut or 2/2; 6/8)
- dotted half note
- dotted quarter note
- eighth note/ rest
- tied notes
- accent
- fermata
- interval
- whole steps, half steps
- accidentals
- key signatures
- chords
- principal chords-tonic, subdominant, dominant
- note stem direction to indicate right hand fingering (guitar)
- harmonic intervals-3rd, 5th
- arpeggio
- binary form-AB
- ternary form-ABA
- Song form-Verse, Chorus, Bridge
- D.C. al Fine, D.S. al Fine, Coda
- dynamics (pianissimo -fortissimo-pp-ff)
- crescendo
- decrescendo, diminuendo
- staccato
- legato
- slurred notes (guitar- "hammer ons," "pull offs")
- barre (guitar)
- harmonic (guitar)
- rasgueado (guitar)
- tambora (guitar)
- pizzicato (guitar)
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
