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Essential Questions
EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Instrumental
PerformingDemonstrate ability to compose short melodies.
Fill a measure with rests and notes in 4/4, 3/4, and 2/4.
Explain and demonstrate appropriate practice plans and techniques.
Reading/ Writing
Read rhythms using a widely accepted counting system.
Identify note names on a staff.
Demonstrate ability to read key signatures and accidentals.
Identify articulation markings and define their purpose.
Responding/ Evaluating
Identify key signatures by number of flats and sharps.
identify time signatures in music examples.
Identify basic intervals from one pitch to another.
Identify style of music and perform accordingly.
Demonstrate ability to balance and blend in small group and Tutti settings.
Demonstrate ability to follow a conductor.
Performing
- Develop characteristic tone employing the following musical concepts: rhythm, melody, form, and expression.
- With guidance, select one piece of music from available resources (full or small ensemble pieces, method or solo books) that reflects the performer's interest.
- Demonstrate fundamental vocal control while performing varied repertoire of music in ensemble settings, while making appropriate use of posture, breath control, tone production (head voice), pitch matching and note accuracy.
- Demonstrate chest and head voices while singing individually and in groups.
- Demonstrate technical accuracy through appropriate use of: rhythm work (including pulse, note, and rest values), range development, diction and vowel formation, expressive elements including dynamics.
- Perform a varied repertoire of solo, unison, and two-part literature, including selections in Latin.
- Demonstrate correct posture.
- Adjust tone quality while singing.
- Produce a supported tone using proper breath control for 8 beats.
- Sing uniform vowels.
- Properly enunciate beginning and ending consonants.
- Demonstrating proper vocal techniques as a member of a larger group (balance/blend of vocal timbre within a group).
- Respond appropriately to the cues of a conductor.
- Recognize standard notation symbols used in music.
- Improvise simple rhythmic patterns to enhance warm-ups or appropriate literature.
- Count music that contains whole note and rest, half note and rest, dotted half note, quarter note and rest, and eighth note and rest in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 meter signature using a consistent counting system.
- Interpret standard notation symbols for pitches in the treble clef.
- Identify key signatures C, F, and G.
- Sight-sing unison literature.
- Sing standard pitch notation (including letter names, solfége, and numbers) in the treble or bass clef within an octave range using stepwise movement and the intervals of a third and fifth.
- Perform scales and their related arpeggios.
- Demonstrate whole- and half-step patterns in the major scale.
- Respond to technical qualities of a performance using music terminology.
- Evaluate performances of self and others to determine accuracy of pitch and rhythm and clarity of diction.
- Attend live performances and demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette.
- Describe specific areas within a piece of music which may be challenging and identify improvement goals.
Instrumental
Performing
- Demonstrate ability to care for, assemble, and properly hold an instrument with appropriate posture.
- Demonstrate ability to keep a steady beat.
- Demonstrate ability to count rhythms in simple meter.
- Produce a characteristic tone in middle register at different dynamic levels.
- Demonstrate ability to match pitch with others.
- Perform at least two major scales and arpeggios or percussion rudiments.
Vocabulary
Choral
Rhythm
Instrumental
Rhythm
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
- Head voice/ chest voice
- Staff
- Clef (treble and bass)
- Major key signature
- Diatonic major scale
- Tonic major arpeggio
- Pitch
- Stepwise motion
- Skip motion
- Unison
- 2-part singing
- Vocal ostinati
- Imitative harmony (canon, etc.)
- Phrase
- Verse
- Chorus
- Section
- AB
- ABA
- Repeat sign
- Balance/ blend
- Phrasing
- Dynamics: pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo, crescendo, decrescendo, diminuendo
- Uniform vowels
- Fermata
- 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
- Staff
- Clef
- Treble
- Bass
- Alto
- Key Signature
- Sharp
- Flat
- Natural
- Accidental
- Pitch
- Range
- Register
- Middle Register
- Tonality
- Major
- Diatonic
- Chromatic
- Scale
- Arpeggio
- Half-Step
- Whole-Step
- Stepwise Motion
- Intervals
- Unison
- Solo
- Duet
- Tutti
- Chord
- Progression
- Phrase
- Repeats/ Repeat Sign
- Double Bar Line
- Dynamic
- Piano
- Mezzo Piano
- Mezzo Forte
- Forte
- Articulation
- Tonguing
- Slurring
- Accent
- Legato
- Staccato
- Detaché
- Pizzicato
- Breath Mark
- Posture
- Instrument Carriage
- Instrument Assembly
- Instrument Maintenance
- Embouchure
- Grip
- Characteristic Tone Quality
- Tone Color
- Range
- Timbre
- Breathing
- Support
- Sustain
- Release
- Intonation
- Balance
- Blend
- Sight-reading
- Transpose
- Compose
- Arrange
- Improvise
- Audience Etiquette
- Performer Etiquette
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
