AE17.MU.5.16

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 5 - Music

AE17.MU.5.16
Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?

Skills Examples

Performing

Analyze the formal structure of music that is to be performed.
Identify elements of music to be performed for a specific context (for example, dynamic markings that are appropriate for a lullaby).

Creating

Choose a literary work, such as a poem or story, to generate musical ideas for performance.

Reading/ Writing

Examine performance music for expressive elements, and use correct notation to indicate placement.

Responding/ Evaluating

Justify personal preferences for certain musical pieces, performance, composers and musical genres both orally and in writing.
Discuss contributions of musical elements to aesthetic qualities in performances of self and others.
Consider and articulate the influence of technology on music careers.
Develop and apply criteria for critiquing more complex performances of live and recorded music.