AE17.MU.5.17

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

AE17.MU.5.17
Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?

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.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Melody

Pitch set: Do-centered diatonic
Treble clef reading (choral octavos)
Grand staff
Bass clef
Accidentals
Major scale

Harmony

Part singing/ playing
Chord progression (I, IV, V)
Arpeggio
Descant
Level bordun

Form

Rondo form
12-Bar blues

Expression

Vibrato
Tremolo
Reggae
Blues
Timbre: soprano, alto, tenor, bass

Other

Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
Age-appropriate pitch matching (Ab3-F5)

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Aligned Learning Resources

Haunting Music