AE17.MU.8.CN.A

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 8 - Music

AE17.MU.8.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

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.

Creating

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.

Reading/ Writing

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.

Responding/ Evaluating

Evaluate music of different time periods and present ways in which music influenced culture and ways in which the culture influenced music.
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)

Melody

Tension and release
Phrase
Notation (standard, iconic, technological)

Harmony

Texture
Tension and release
Sequence
Notation (standard, iconic, technological)

Form

Arrangement
Song structure
Expanded forms
Introduction
Transition
Coda
Style
Genre
Structure

Expression

Timbre
Balance

Other

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.