Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
