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

AE17.MU.HI.P.10

Apply criteria to select music for a variety of purposes, justifying choices by citing knowledge of the music and the specified purpose and context.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Guitar: Demonstrate proficiency by using the following the following open chords while maintaining a quality tone: A, Am, A7, C, D, D7, E, Em, E7, G.
  • Piano: Play I IV V (or I, iv, V) chords (with inversions), hands separately or together.
  • Perform a varied repertoire of music while demonstrating technical accuracy, dynamic contrast with an emerging sense of musicality.
  • Create small ensembles to allow for a peer-evaluation process.
  • Perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures and showing expression and technical accuracy at a level that includes changes in tempo, meter and key signature.
Creating
  • Identify and interpret music symbols and terms appropriately while sight-reading a varied repertoire of music.
  • Discuss current trends in music and their impact on today's society.
  • Create an appropriate melodic line and accompaniment and notate using a technology source.
  • Describe ways that technology has altered how humans create, perform and listen to music.
Reading/ Writing
  • Develop sight-reading benchmarks and growth goals in line with local guidelines.
  • Analyze tempo, dynamics and form in a given piece of music.
  • Identify accidentals, including flats, sharps, and naturals within selected repertoire.
  • Develop criteria based on the elements of music to support personal preferences for specific music works.
  • Compare and contrast selections using appropriate terminology.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Examine performances of self and others to evaluate the quality and effectiveness while identifying areas for improvement.
  • Describe the tone or mood of a selection and identify musical elements within a piece of music that contribute to the overall mood.
  • Reflect on the relationship between music and the social and political events at various times in American history.
  • Reflect on various live or recorded performances.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Beat (strong and weak beats, backbeat, division/ subdivision)
  • Notes and Rests (dotted eighth, sixteenth)
  • Meter (duple, triple, and quadruple simple and compound meters [2/2, 2/4, 6/8; 3/2, 3/4, 9/8; 4/2, 4/4, 12/8], asymmetrical meters [5/4, 7/8, etc.])
  • Tempo (all standard Italian tempo terms, using the metronome to practice)
  • Other (triplet, swing eighths)
Melody
  • Scales (3 minor scale forms: natural, harmonic, melodic; relative and parallel minor)
  • Intervals (compound)
  • Staff Notation (double sharps and flats)
  • Melodic Figures (motive, theme, trill, passing tone)
Harmony
  • Triads (suspended chords)
  • Seventh Chords (five qualities, four inversions, suspensions)
  • Function (all diatonic chord functions)
  • Cadences (half, authentic, deceptive)
  • Lead Sheets
Form
  • Forms (AABA song form, verse, chorus, bridge, 12-bar blues, sonatina, rondo, theme and variations
  • Texture (homophonic, polyphonic)
Expression
  • Dynamics (all standard Italian terms, abbreviations, and symbols)
  • Articulation (all standard terms and symbols characteristic to the instrument)
  • Tempo and Changing Tempo (all standard Italian, English terms and abbreviations, exposure to French, German terms)
  • Character/ Style (all standard Italian and English terms, exposure to French and German terms)
Other
  • Playing techniques/ practice techniques
  • Scales and Arpeggios
  • I-IV-V7-I/ i-iv-V7-i cadences
  • Improvisation (e.g., around circle of fifths)
  • Sight-Reading
  • Ensemble Playing
  • Repertoire, representative of various styles and style periods, memorized and performed

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
ALSDE LOGO