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
Performing
- Select specific passages, sections, or movements in musical works that express personal experiences, moods, or visual images.
- Develop interpretations of musical works based on an understanding of the elements of music, style, mood, function, and context.
- Write a simple melody following basic chord structures.
- Describe and demonstrate how sounds or musical ideas can be used to represent and express visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines through composing and arranging.
- Write a simple melody following basic chord structures using 4-part harmony utilizing major and minor key centers
- Analyze the elements of music from written and aural examples relating them to style, mood, and context.
- Describe how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and/or listener.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Simple meter
- Compound meter
- Contour
- Conjunct/ disjunct
- Major/ minor
- Monophonic
- Polyphonic
- Call and response
- Round
- Canon
- Binary form (AB)
- Ternary form (ABA)
- Dynamics
- Tempo markings
- Phrase
- Key signatures
- Treble or bass clef (dependent on student voicing/ instrument)
- Rhythmic dictation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
