AE17.MU.3.1
Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas and describe connection to specific purpose and context.
Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas and describe connection to specific purpose and context.
Unpacked Content
UP:AE17.MU.3.1
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Bar lines
- Measures
- Pitch set: Low So, Low La, High Do
- Treble clef reading (Mi, Re, Do)
- Middle C to high G
- Ledger lines
- Partner songs
- Rounds
- Ostinati
- Theme and variations
- Coda
- D.S. al coda
- Repeat sign
- Fermata
- Phrase/ phrasing
- Pianissimo (pp), fortissimo (ff)
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
- Orchestral instruments: 4 families
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (Bb3 - Eb5)
Essential Questions
EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Play a variety of classroom instruments with proper technique.
- Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture.
- Use pitch and rhythm to improvise vocal, instrumental, and/or movement ideas within a context (such as question and answer phrases or simple accompaniment/ostinato).
- Use iconic or standard notation and/or recording technology to sequence and document personal musical ideas.
- Demonstrate a final version of personal musical ideas using created vocal, instrumental, or movement pieces through performance.
- Develop criteria to critique and refine selected musical examples.
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
