Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Select appropriate music for specific events such as school festivals, community events, and class or grade level performances.
- Create a rhythmic ostinato that reflects the style of the music performed (ex: finger cymbals/lullaby).
- Identify repeated rhythmic passages in music and notate using iconic notation (ex: rhythm of repeated melodic phrase in "In the Hall of the Mountain King").
- Aurally identify clarinet, trombone, and cello in the context of an ensemble performance.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Quarter note, quarter rest, paired eighth notes
- Strong/ weak beat
- Steady beat/ rhythm
- Allegro/ adagio
- Pitch set: Mi, So, La
- Steps/ skips/ repeated notes
- Melodic direction
- Modified staff
- Line notes and space notes
- Rhythmic ostinati
- Simple bordun
- AB, ABA
- Legato, staccato
- Piano (p), forte (f)
- Classroom instrument classifications
- Clarinet, trombone, cello, drum
- Orchestral music: ballet
- Non-Western music celebrations
- Proper singing posture
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (C4 - C5)1
- Mallet/ drumming technique — hands together
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
