Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Sing, move and respond to music from world cultures and different composers.
- Sing a varied repertoire with accurate rhythm, pitch and expressive qualities individually and with others.
- With limited guidance, Improvise and compose short compositions using a variety of classroom instruments and sound sources.
- Read, write and perform using rhythm patterns that include syncopated rhythms, in 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 meter.
- Use the head voice to produce a light, clear sound employing breath support and maintaining appropriate posture.
- Use student developed criteria to critique their own performances and the performances of others.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Conducting patterns in
- Syncopation
- Pitch set: Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, Ti
- Treble clef reading (La, So, Mi, Re, Do)
- Middle C through High B
- Create melodic sequences
- Half-step
- Whole step
- Canons
- Chord components
- Chord progression (I, V)
- Crossover bordun
- Phrasing: antecedent and consequent
- D.C. al coda
- Fine
- pp through ff
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
- Orchestra instruments within the 4 families
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (A3-E5)
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
