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?
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Perform music appropriate for middle level students from a variety of cultures, genres, and historical time periods.
- Perform music appropriate for middle level learners that represents personal interests or experiences.
- Compare and contrast, with guidance, context of music, selected for performance.
- Create a playlist of music for listening that reflects personal interests, and/or a specific purpose, and/or an experience and describe how each selection is related.
- Compare and contrast the context of at least two pieces of music created by self or peers and explain how the elements of music and expressive qualities were used in each piece.
- Analyze at least two pieces of music created by self and peers and explain how the elements of music and expressive qualities contribute to each piece's structure.
- Use standard notation skills, with guidance, to analyze music to be performed.
- Use standard notation skills, with guidance, to explain music created by self and peers.
- Aurally compare and contrast, with guidance, two pieces and explain how the elements of music and expressive qualities are used to convey intent.
- Create a presentation (lecture, multimedia, etc.) that describes a composer's or performer's use of the elements of music and expressive qualities to convey intent.
- Develop a presentation (lecture or multimedia) that explains your personal interpretation of how the elements of music and expressive qualities were used to convey intent and meaning in specific musical pieces.
- Discuss how musical products are evaluated by professional musicians.
- Evaluate musical performances and products, with criteria provided by the teacher.
- Compare and contrast how cultural and societal convention influences responses to music.
- Develop, with guidance, personal criteria for responding to music.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Phrase
- Notation (standard,
- invented, or technological)
- Phrase
- Notation (standard, invented, or technological)
- Phrase
- Accompaniment
- Progression
- Binary form (AB)
- Ternary form (ABA)
- Style
- Genre
- Structure (melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic)
- Tempo
- Dynamics
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquette
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
