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Essential Questions
EU: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Reproduce music literature from a variety of historical periods, styles, and cultures.
- Incorporate music technology and digital tools in performing or recorded music.
- Improvise over familiar melodies using accompaniment software.
- Improvise over familiar melodies using sequencing software.
- Improvise and compose short compositions using a variety of digital tools and technology.
- Demonstrate technical accuracy while using various digital tools.
- Demonstrate proper signal flow when using digital tools
- Describe equalization and mastering techniques.
- Identify analog and digital recording and editing techniques.
- Identify music forms used in vocal and instrumental genres from various historical periods.
- Discuss and analyze signal flow as it relates to audio interface connections.
- Analyze and describe how form and technique help to convey the meaning of a given piece of music.
- Trace the development of electronic music and digital tools from the 1980's to the present.
- Discuss and write about the importance of intellectual property rights as it relates to music technology.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Click Track
- Compound Meter
- Duple
- Mixed Meter
- Quantize
- Simple Meter
- Traditional and Iconic Notation
- Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
- Triple
- Frequency
- Instrumentation Choice
- Interval
- Key Signature (Minor)
- Multitrack Recording
- Traditional and Iconic Notation
- Tone Generator
- Transpose
- Virtual Instruments
- Atonal
- Chord Progression
- Consonance
- Dissonance
- Tension-Release
- Transpose
- Binary (AB)
- Coda
- Cut/ Paste
- Editing
- Interlude
- Mixing
- Sampling
- Strophic
- Style
- Ternary (ABA)
- Amplitude
- Articulation
- Delay
- Electronic Music
- Musique Concréte
- Panning
- Pitch Bending
- Timbre
- Tone Color
- Bit
- Bouncing (to)
- Byte
- Compress/ Compression
- Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
- Decibel (dB)
- Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
- Digital Citizenship
- Effect(s)
- Equalization
- Event List
- Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
- MIDI Controller
- Panning
- Patch
- Piano Roll
- Reverb (Reverberation)
- Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
- Synthesizer
- Streaming
- Sample (as in live instrument sample)
- Sampling Rate
- Sequence/ Sequencer
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
