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

AE17.MU.T.AC.3

Develop and implement varied strategies to improve and refine the technical and expressive aspects of draft compositions and improvisational skills.

Unpacked Content

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?

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.
Creating
  • 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.
Reading/ Writing
  • 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.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • 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
Melody
  • Frequency
  • Instrumentation Choice
  • Interval
  • Key Signature (Minor)
  • Multitrack Recording
  • Traditional and Iconic Notation
  • Tone Generator
  • Transpose
  • Virtual Instruments
Harmony
  • Atonal
  • Chord Progression
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Tension-Release
  • Transpose
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Coda
  • Cut/ Paste
  • Editing
  • Interlude
  • Mixing
  • Sampling
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Amplitude
  • Articulation
  • Delay
  • Electronic Music
  • Musique Concréte
  • Panning
  • Pitch Bending
  • Timbre
  • Tone Color
Other
  • 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.
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