AE17.MU.6.8

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 6 - Music

AE17.MU.6.8
Explain how the structure and the elements of music are used in music selected for performance.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?

Skills Examples

Performing

Play melodies on the recorder within an octave range, using a pleasing tone quality, both independently and collaboratively.
Demonstrate proper posture, hand position and embouchure for playing the recorder.
Demonstrate proper pitch control of notes in the lower register of the soprano recorder.
Play two-part and three-part recorder arrangements.
Perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures with appropriate dynamics and tempo.
Play a variety of classroom instruments, independently or collaboratively, with increasingly complex rhythms and melodic phrases.
Demonstrate a characteristic sound while singing unison or two-part songs.
Sing descants to produce harmony.

Creating

Demonstrate rhythmic augmentation and diminution in a familiar tune.
Improvise, compose and arrange music.

Reading/ Writing

Read, write, perform, and compose rhythm patterns and simple melodies in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8.

Responding/ Evaluating

Identify members of the recorder family, including soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.
Identify the difference between duple and simple meter.
Identify irregular meters such as, 7/8 and 5/4.
Respond appropriately to the cues of a conductor.
Attend live performances and demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette.
Describe the characteristics used by the composer in a selected musical example to create a mood or effect.
Recognize I, IV, and V chords in the context of a piece of music.
Identify composite forms, such as, opera, oratorio, and musical theatre.
Identify polyphonic texture.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Melody

Pitch set: La- centered diatonic (minor)
Clef reading (diatonic)
Octave
Unison/ harmony

Harmony

Polyphonic
2-part songs
3-part songs
Descant
Bass clef
Accompaniment

Form

AB form
ABA form
Form
Canon
Composer
Composite forms

Expression

Tone Quality
Articulation

Other

Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
Age-appropriate pitch matching (G3-G5)
Historical periods

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Aligned Learning Resources

Composing With Dice: Expression