Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Perform original melodic patterns in do pentatonic as an introduction to a known song.
- Perform original rhythmic patterns on body percussion or unpitched percussion, containing eighth note, eighth rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest, as an introduction to a known chant.
- Create a melody on pitched instruments using speech rhythms from a selected poem.
- Improvise with a partner in question/answer style, using pitched or unpitched percussion instruments.
- Notate speech rhythms from a selected poem, using iconic or standard notation.
- Using music composition software, create an original composition based on a personally selected topic.
- Refine compositions based on self-evaluation of a recorded performance.
- Indicate dynamic markings for original compositions.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Eighth note, eighth rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest
- Strong/ weak beat — 2/4; 3/4 meter
- Accelerando/ ritardando
- Pitch Set: Do , Re, Mi, So, La
- Five-line staff
- Treble clef
- Names of lines/ spaces (treble staff)
- Melodic ostinati
- Partner songs
- AAB, AABA, Rondo
- Verse/ Refrain
- Orchestral instrument families
- Piano (p), forte (f)
- Crescendo/ decrescendo
- Orchestral Music: programmatic
- Indigenous music: Native American
- American music: slave songs, colonial folk songs
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (B3-D5)1
- Mallet/ drumming technique: alternating hands
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
