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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)?
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Reproduce music literature from a variety of historical periods, styles and cultures and relate its characteristics to other disciplines in the arts.
- Present an original work incorporating advanced digital techniques and effects. (ex. polyrhythm, dubbing, inversion, crossfade, etc.)
- Effectively manage equalization and gain staging in a live music performance.
- Employ technology and various digital tools to promote and distribute music.
- Use various expressive and articulation markings, and/or manipulate note velocities and durations.
- Using digital tools, create musical moods from visual images.
- Using accurate terminology, describe in detail the properties of sound and how they relate to music technology.
- Discuss and analyze ways composers and performers elicit specific moods within music.
- Define expressive intent and analyze its role in musical composition.
- Analyze and describe how digital tools are used in a given work to make it unique, interesting and expressive.
- Demonstrate proficiency in solving the most common technical problems in music technology.
- Research and discuss way music technology is used by various cultures in the US and internationally.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Asymmetrical
- Measure
- Mixed Meter
- Quantize
- Polyrhythm
- Symmetrical
- Syncopation
- Velocity
- Audio Interface
- Effects
- Envelope
- Gain/ Gain Staging
- Sound Wave
- Inversion/ Retrograde
- Key Signature (Major, Minor, Modal)
- Monophonic
- Motif
- Theme
- Tonality
- Transpose
- Harmonic Progression
- Harmonics (Overtones)
- Homophony
- Modulation
- Part Writing
- Polyphony
- Suspension
- Binary (AB)
- Cadenza
- Dubbing/ Overdub
- Head (Jazz Reference)
- Improvised Solo
- Mapping
- Rondo
- Strophic
- Style
- Ternary (ABA)
- Crossfade
- Decibel (dB)
- Portamento
- Slurring
- Velocity
- Clipping
- College and Career Opportunities as a Music Technologist
- Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
- Digital Citizenship
- Directional
- Effect(s)
- Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
- Omnidirectional
- Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
- Room (wet, dry, live, etc.)
- Transcribe/ Transcription
- Virtual Instruments
- Waveform manipulation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
