Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
EQ: How do we discern musical creators' and performers' expressive intent?
EQ: How do we discern musical creators' and performers' expressive intent?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Perform a program of music that is for a specific purpose, interest, or experience and explain your choices.
- Perform music from a variety of cultures, styles, historical time periods, or genres and discuss how personal interpretation and the composer's use of the elements of music influence expressive intent.
- Compare and contrast the context of music selected for performance.
- Compare and contrast the context of three or more pieces of music created by self or peers and explain how the elements of music and expressive qualities were used in each piece.
- Compare and contrast how the elements of music and expressive qualities are used in multiple pieces from the same time period and/or culture, and/or genre to create meaning and expression.
- Analyze music using standard notation and appropriate vocabulary.
- Compare and contrast how the elements of music and expressive qualities are used within music selected for performance to contribute to the overall structure and intent. Cite specific examples and use appropriate vocabulary.
- Analyze music of a variety of cultures, styles, historical time periods, and/or genres and compare the context and/or intent of the pieces.
- Compare common terms and how they are used in various pieces to demonstrate intent.
- Compare and contrast programs of music for connections to history and culture.
- Develop personal criteria based on personal knowledge and skills for including music in performance programs.
- Develop personal criteria based on the elements of music for including music in performance programs.
- Demonstrate (lecture, presentation, journal, etc.) how personal knowledge and experience contribute to enjoyment of music.
- Identify how criteria based on the elements of music support personal preference for specific musical works.
- Develop a rubric to evaluate musical performances and/or musical works based on personally developed criteria.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Tension and release
- Phrase
- Notation (standard, iconic, technological)
- Tension and release
- Phrase
- Notation (standard, iconic, technological)
- Texture
- Tension and release
- Sequence
- Notation (standard, iconic, technological)
- Arrangement
- Song structure
- Expanded forms
- Introduction
- Transition
- Coda
- Style
- Genre
- Structure
- Timbre
- Balance
- Sound sources (instruments, voices, found sounds, & technology)
- Age-appropriate audience and performer etiquettes
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
