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
- Improvise over standard folk songs using the pitch set: La, So, Mi, Re, and Do.
- Improvise melodies in a major diatonic scale by singing or using a pitched instrument.
- Compose melodies and accompaniments to songs, poems, stories, and dramatizations, using AB, ABA, and rondo forms.
- Perform pre-written musical ideas.
- Perform harmonic accompaniments using Orff instruments, Boomwhackers, electronic sources, or by any other appropriate harmonic instrument.
- Notate simple rhythms and melodies within a specified meter and tonality.
- Create a 12-bar blues song using appropriate chordal structure and lyrics.
- Explore and identify musical instruments from different historical periods and world cultures.
- Write an original blues song.
- Identify elements of music including tonality, dynamics, tempo and meter.
- Identify patterns of whole and half steps in a major scale.
- Compose 4 or 8 measure pieces using appropriate notation.
- Review and refine a composition.
- Evaluate a performance, using appropriate vocabulary to describe strengths and weaknesses of the performance.
- Listen to, identify, and respond to music of different composers, historical periods, and world cultures.
- Identify terms related to form.
- Recognize and identify longer music forms such as 12-bar blues, sonata form and theme and variations.
- Identify vocal timbre as soprano, alto, tenor, or bass.
- Write short self-reflections about his/her composition and the creative process.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Pitch set: Do-centered diatonic
- Treble clef reading (choral octavos)
- Grand staff
- Bass clef
- Accidentals
- Major scale
- Part singing/ playing
- Chord progression (I, IV, V)
- Arpeggio
- Descant
- Level bordun
- Rondo form
- 12-Bar blues
- Vibrato
- Tremolo
- Reggae
- Blues
- Timbre: soprano, alto, tenor, bass
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (Ab3-F5)
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
