Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

The Music Staff

Subject Area

Arts Education

Grade(s)

8

Overview

The information material provides instructions on how to identify notes on the staff. It covers staff position, lines and spaces, and ledger lines. It also includes audio examples.

    Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Music

    AE17.MU.8.9

    Sight-read simple rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic notation in treble or bass clef.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:AE17.MU.8.9

    Vocabulary

    Rhythm
    • Tension and release
    • Phrase
    • Notation (standard, iconic, technological)
    Melody
    • Tension and release
    • Phrase
    • Notation (standard, iconic, technological)
    Harmony
    • Texture
    • Tension and release
    • Sequence
    • Notation (standard, iconic, technological)
    Form
    • Arrangement
    • Song structure
    • Expanded forms
    • Introduction
    • Transition
    • Coda
    • Style
    • Genre
    • Structure
    Expression
    • Timbre
    • Balance
    Other
    • Sound sources (instruments, voices, found sounds, & technology)
    • Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquettes

    Essential Questions

    EU: Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
    EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?

    Skills Examples

    Performing
    • Perform a varied repertoire of music from different cultures and historical periods and be able to discuss the context, expressive qualities, technical challenges, and reason for selection.
    • Perform a varied repertoire of music and be able to discuss, using appropriate vocabulary, how the composer used the elements of music in each piece.
    • Perform harmonic accompaniments (ukulele, piano, guitar, classroom instruments, etc.) for songs.
    • Perform middle level appropriate music with good posture and producing an appropriate tone quality.
    • Perform music reading standard musical notation.
    • Perform music of various cultures with technical accuracy, stylistic expression, and culturally authentic.
    Creating
    • Improvise within a provided harmonic structure.
    • Compose music for personal and collaborative performance.
    • Examine how the creative process influences the performance of music.
    • Arrange music for a specific ensemble, and/or instrument, and/or vocal part.
    Reading/ Writing
    • Create a presentation, using appropriate vocabulary and specific musical examples, comparing the structure and use of musical elements in music selected for performance.
    • Compare
    • Sight read rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic notation in bass and treble clefs.
    • Describe how the elements of music (rhythmic, melodic, and/or harmonic) and expressive qualities of selected music for performance.
    • Compare and Contrast the use of standard symbols for the elements of music for a program of music for performance.
    • Compare and contrast the structure (rhythmic, and/or melodic, and/or harmonic) of music for a program of music for performance.
    Responding/ Evaluating
    • Identify and describe ways that technology is used to perform music.
    • Identify careers in music that are performance based.
    • Describe how the historical and cultural contexts influence personal and collaborative music performance practices.
    • Develop a multimedia presentation to be played before a concert that explains proper audience and performance etiquette for the context and venue.
    • Develop criteria, to evaluate a program of music for performance attention to expressive qualities, technical challenges, purpose and context.
    • Develop a personal rehearsal plan for music selected for performance.
    • Create program notes for musical performance that discuss the cultural, and/or historical time period, and/or societal influences of the music selected for performance.

    Anchor Standards

    Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
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