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

AE17.MU.T.AC.14

Apply criteria to evaluate music based on analysis, interpretation, artistic intent, digital, electronic, and analog features, and musical qualities.

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Essential Questions

EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Edit, mix and produce a new composition using various digital tools.
  • Use a synthesizer to create various sounds.
  • Transpose an existing piece of music using digital tools.
Creating
  • Employ various compositional techniques to compose a short work using digital tools.
  • Interpret and employ expressive markings in musical scores.
  • Create original melodies using traditional notation, sequencing or digital recording software.
  • Effectively trim an audio clip.
Reading/ Writing
  • Explain the role of technology in researching, creating, performing and listening to music.
  • Identify compositional techniques used to provide unity and variety, tension and release in musical works.
  • Identify and describe effects used in a recording- delay, sampling, looping, pan, etc.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Compare the methodology and interpretation of two or more performances, live, sequenced or recorded, of the same music.
  • Analyze and describe how a synthesizer produces various sounds.
  • Research and report about the development of Music Concréte and its role in electronic music.

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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
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