Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 7 - Music

AE17.MU.7.CN.A

Connecting standards 1 and 2 are to be embedded while teaching the Creating, Performing, and Responding standards. See page 86.

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?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Perform music from a variety of sources that relates to the performer's interest and knowledge base.
  • Compare and contrast how performance is different in various Arts disciplines (e.g., Theatre, Visual Arts, Dance, Media Arts).
  • Compare and contrast, with guidance, how context influences performance in multiple Arts disciplines.
  • Examine, with guidance, how performance and creation are related.
Creating
  • Examine, with guidance, how creators in music and other disciplines use knowledge, interests, and personal choices.
  • Compare and contrast, with guidance, how creators in different Arts disciplines express intent in their works.
  • Examine, with guidance, how the creation process is similar and different in Arts disciplines and field outside of the Arts.
  • Examine, with guidance, how originality and craftsmanship are used in music and other disciplines.
Reading/ Writing
  • Compare and contrast, with guidance, how the creation process in music relates to the creation process in other Arts.
  • Compare and contrast, with guidance, how expressive qualities are used in different Arts.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Interview peers about their musical choices and compare to your personal musical choices.
  • Identify how music is used in various situations, places, and times (e.g., Funerals, Birthdays, Veteran's Day, Classical Period, Civil War).
  • Examine, with guidance, how major historical (national & world) events influence music (e.g., World War II, Civil Rights Movement, Russian Revolution, etc.).
  • Identify, with guidance, how music study can lead to careers in music and other fields.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Phrase
  • Notation (standard, invented, or technological)
Melody
  • Phrase
  • Notation (standard, invented, or technological)
Harmony
  • Phrase
  • Accompaniment
  • Progression
Form
  • Binary form (AB)
  • Ternary form (ABA)
  • Style
  • Genre
  • Structure (melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic)
Expression
  • Tempo
  • Dynamics
Other
  • Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquettes

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
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