Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Select music for community performances based on social/cultural contexts.
- Using music notation software, create simple rhythmic and melodic phrases that reflect a given style/genre.
- Demonstrate fluency in reading standard notation by performing simple diatonic phrases on a pitched instrument.
- Identify the relationship of American music to American History.
- Identify characteristic differences in music of various cultures.
- Identify the major periods, genres and composers in the development of Western and non-Western music. Connect these periods, genres, and composers to significant events in world history.
- Identify instruments associated with the music of a particular culture.
- Identify ensembles which are unique to specific cultures.
- Compare and contrast subject matter common to music and other subject areas.
- Identify uses for technology in music.
- Communicate the importance of music in everyday life.
- Describe ways that music relates to other art forms using appropriate terminology.
- Explain and apply skills developed in music (e.g., critical thinking, collaboration) to other disciplines.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
