Unpacked Content
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?
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Perform age-appropriate music with attention to expressive markings indicated in the printed music.
- Perform an improvised interlude to a known song, matching expression and rhythmic/melodic themes.
- Identify expressive markings in printed music.
- Identify meter marking in printed music.
- Notate from dictation 8-beat rhythm patterns using standard notation.
- Perform short melodic patterns from standard or iconic notation.
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 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
