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
- 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.
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)
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
