Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?
EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Instrumental
Performing
Performing
- Perform, with good posture and breath control, a varied repertoire of music representing diverse cultures at a level that includes modest ranges with appropriate dynamics and tempo.
- Demonstrate and describe proper ensemble techniques including balance, blend, dynamics and correct vowel production.
- Demonstrate the use of dynamics, tempo, meter and tonality through active listening.
- Identify various careers for musicians.
- Read and notate simple melodies in treble and bass clef.
- Read and notate simple rhythm patterns of 2-4 measures in 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8.
- Compare and contrast a variety of live and recorded performances using appropriate terminology.
- Describe the function of the diaphragm as it relates to singing.
- Evaluate performances of self and others to determine accuracy of pitch, rhythm, and clarity of diction.
Instrumental
Performing
- Demonstrate how musical elements communicate meaning and emotion by playing, singing, or moving to music.
- Recognize the use of music for various purposes by performers and listeners in a variety of cultures.
- Identify same and different (fast/slow, loud/soft, high/low, long/short).
- Listen to and explore the music of various styles, composers, periods, and cultures.
- Identify a musician and his or her roles (composer, conductor, performer).
- Identify elements of music using developmentally appropriate vocabulary.
- Explore selected musical instruments aurally and visually.
- Attend live music performances.
- Discuss and write about observations of voices and instruments heard in performances.
- Explain how music is used for a variety of purposes and occasions.
- Discuss how music communicates feelings, moods, images, and meaning.
- Share ideas about musical selections of various and contrasting styles, composers and musical periods.
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 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
