AE17.MU.TEE.N.4

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 06-12 - Music

AE17.MU.TEE.N.4
Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisational skills based on knowledge, skill, and collaboratively-developed criteria.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?

Skills Examples

Choral
Performing

Read rhythmic notation aloud using a consistent system (e.g., counting, neutral syllables, etc.).
Read melodic notation aloud using a consistent system (e.g., numbers, solfege, etc.).

Improvise 4-8 beat rhythms using body percussion and call/ response.
Improvise 4-beat melodic patterns using visual stimuli and call/ response.
Collaborate to synthesize original compositions with peers using improvised elements.

Create and share 8-16 measure unison rhythmic and melodic exercises using standard notation within teacher-provided guidelines.

Identify thematic elements and repetition in notated music.
Identify challenging elements in notated music.

Instrumental

Assemble, disassemble, and perform routine maintenance on the assigned instrument(s).
Hold the assigned instrument(s) with appropriate posture.
Using the proper embouchure, breath support, articulation, and release, produce a characteristic tone in the middle register at dynamic ranges between piano and forte (Winds).
Perform pizzicato, up and down bows with a detaché bow stroke with 2 to 4 slurred notes (Strings).
On a steady beat and at slow to medium tempi, clap, speak on neutral syllables, count aloud, and play on instruments given rhythmic patterns using whole, half, quarter, eighth notes and rests and dotted half notes in 4/4, common, 2/4, and 3/4 meters.
On a steady beat and at slow to medium, speak the letter names of and sing on pitch and/or using solfege melodic notation within a given range.
Play the concert Bb, Eb, and Ab scales with arpeggios (winds and percussion). Play a one octave concert C, G, D, and A scales with arpeggios (strings).
Play alone and with others, music graded .5 to 1 and beginner to very easy.

Complete unfinished compositions using standard music notation.
Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic patterns of 1-2 measures within given parameters.
Compose simple rhythmic and melodic patterns of 1-2 measures within given parameters using standard music notation.

Read given rhythmic notation using whole, half, quarter, eighth, and dotted half notes and rests in 4/4, common, 2/4, and 3/4 meters.
Read melodic notation within the middle register of the assigned instruments(s).
Identify by name and notate common musical elements (staff, clefs, rhythms, etc.).

Identify parts of the assigned instrument(s).
Listen to and identify intervals by ear.
Listen to and echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns 1 to 2 measures in length using body percussion, the voice, and instruments.
Listen to and dictate simple rhythmic patterns 1 to 2 measures in length using whole, half, quarter, eighth, and dotted half notes and rests in 4/4, common, 2/4, and 3/4 meters.
Listen to and dictate simple melodic patterns 1 to 2 measures in length within a given range.
Listen to a variety of live and recorded music performed by self, peers, instructors, and professional soloists and ensembles.
Listen to live and recorded music from a variety of time periods and cultures, of varying styles, from various composers.
Recognize conducting patterns used in 4/4, common, 2/4, and 3/4 meters.

Vocabulary

Choral
Rhythm

Measure
Bar line
Time signature
Simple meter
Common time
2/4 time
Whole note/ rest
Half note/ rest
Quarter note/ rest
Eighth note/ rest
Tempo

Melody

Head voice/ chest voice
Staff
Clef (treble and bass)
Major key signature
Diatonic major scale
Tonic major arpeggio
Pitch
Stepwise motion
Skip motion

Harmony

Unison
2-part singing
Vocal ostinati
Imitative harmony (canon, etc.)

Form

Phrase
Verse
Chorus
Section
AB
ABA
Repeat sign

Expression

Balance/ blend
Phrasing
Dynamics: pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo
Uniform vowels
Fermata

Other

Sharps
Flats
Naturals
Diction
Posture
Performance etiquette
Correct breathing

Instrumental
Rhythm

Beat
Tempo

Adagio
Andante
Moderato

Counting System
Simple Meter
Time Signature

4/4
Common
2/4
3/4

Barline
Measure/ Bar
Whole Note & Rest
Half Note & Rest
Quarter Note & Rest
Eighth Note & Rest
Dotted Half Note
Tie
Pick-up Note
Rudiment