AE17.MU.5.19

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

AE17.MU.5.19
Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context, citing evidence from the elements of music.

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Essential Questions

EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?

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.