Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Sing, move and respond to music from world cultures and different composers.
- Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette at live performances.
- Develop criteria and use them to critique their own performances and the performances of others.
- When analyzing selected music, read, write, or perform rhythmic patterns and/or melodic phrases with voice, body percussion, and/or instruments, using iconic or standard notation.
- Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music (such as identifying pieces of music that are important to one's family or how music is used in daily life).
- Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and/or daily life (such as the connection between fractions and rhythm values).
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
