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
- Explore how context, intent, cultural, and personal knowledge influences the performance of music.
- Explore how the cultural and societal customs of a specific time period or culture influences the performance practice of music.
- Compare and contrast the creation process in different Arts disciplines (Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Media Arts, Theatre).
- Compare and contrast how creative thinking is used in the Arts and fields outside the Arts.
- Create a multimedia presentation examining similarities and difference of different composers from a specific time period.
- Apply music reading skills to music of various time periods, cultures, styles and genres.
- Compare and contrast how the creation process in music relates to the creation process in other Arts.
- Compare and contrast how expressive qualities are used in different Arts.
- Compare common terms and contrasting definitions used in music and other arts disciplines.
- Evaluate music of different time periods and present ways in which music influenced culture and ways in which the culture influenced music. Use appropriate vocabulary and provide specific musical examples.
- Choose a culturally significant, and/or societal, or historical event (September 11, American Revolution, Great Depression, etc.) and examine how music and the other Arts were used to respond to the experience.
- Explore how certain styles and genres of music represent the experiences of groups of people.
- Describe how composers, performers, and others involved in music are similar and different from those in other art forms.
- Demonstrate how the context and setting influence performance and audience etiquette.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
