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
- Perform original music that adheres to a simple formal structure.
- Describe distinguishing characteristics of music forms (e.g., verse-refrain, AB, ABA, rondo, canon, theme and variation) from various cultures and historical periods.
- Compose an eight-measure melody based on a diatonic scale using familiar rhythmic patterns.
- Create movement to illustrate the form of a composition.
- Identify instruments used in Western and world music ensembles.
- Identify different functions and uses of music in American and other cultures.
- Distinguish between and among the use of dynamics, meter, tempo and tonality in various pieces through active listening.
- Describe roles and skills musicians assume in various cultures and settings.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Pitch set: La- centered diatonic (minor)
- Clef reading (diatonic)
- Octave
- Unison/ harmony
- Polyphonic
- 2-part songs
- 3-part songs
- Descant
- Bass clef
- Accompaniment
- AB form
- ABA form
- Form
- Canon
- Composer
- Composite forms
- Tone Quality
- Articulation
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
- Age-appropriate pitch matching (G3-G5)
- Historical periods
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
