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

AE17.MU.T.AC.6

Describe and demonstrate how context, theoretical and structural aspects of the music, and digital media/tools inform and influence prepared and improvised performances.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?

Skills Examples

IMPORTANT NOTE
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
  • Select from your electronically created or notated works which one or ones you want to share publicly on your school's website, or in another public forum.
  • Using virtual instruments, rehearse creating live, on the spot, music where you make rhythmic, melodic, and timbral decisions.
  • Using an original background track, improvise over that track using virtual instruments. Record your improvisation and listen back.
Creating
  • Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.) create loops that use both melody and percussive rhythm instruments
  • Use original loops to create musical Binary, Ternary, Strophic, etc. forms.
  • Use a tablet or other portable recording device and record different sounds in your environment. Use those sounds as part of an overall electronic work.
Reading/ Writing
  • Using notation software, notate your melodic loop (motif) and then create a logical chordal harmony for your melody.
  • Using notation software notate a 2-3 measure rhythmic motif you created using sequencing or audio recording software.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to a peer's electronic musical work and provide feedback based on your interpretation of the music for three musical areas (choose three from: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, choice of electronic tools).

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 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
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