AE17.MU.TEE.I.1

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

AE17.MU.TEE.I.1
Compose and improvise ideas for melodies and rhythmic passages based on characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Skills Examples

Choral
Performing

Perform musical passages with technique and expression characteristic of music or text studied in rehearsal.
Experiment with different stylistic performances of musical passages.

Creating

Improvise rhythms and melodies representative of the stylistic characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Reading/ Writing

Create and share 8-16 measure unison/two-part rhythmic and melodic exercises using standard notation within teacher-provided guidelines.
Create notated exercises representative of the stylistic characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Responding/ Evaluating

Identify characteristics common to music studied in rehearsal.
Identify relationships between music and text.

Instrumental
Performing

Using the proper embouchure, breath support, articulation, and release, produce a characteristic tone in the middle register at dynamic ranges between pianissimo and fortissimo.
Demonstrate a clear and consistent tone on a stringed instrument with the ability to control the bows proximity from the bridge and fingerboard to create dynamic contrasts between pianissimo and fortissimo ((strings).
Play legato bowings and slur across strings (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 sixteenth notes and rests and dotted half and dotted quarter notes in 4/4, common, 2/4, 3/4, 6/8 meters, and cut time.
Play the concert F and C scales with arpeggios (winds and percussion). Play the F and Bb major scale and d and g minor scales with arpeggios (strings) . Play seven-stroke roll, flam accent, flam paradiddle, ruff, double paradiddle, and controlled open roll rudiments (percussion).
Play alone and with others, music graded 1.5 to 2 and easy to medium easy.

Creating

Complete unfinished compositions using standard music notation.
Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 4 measures in length within given parameters.
Compose simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 4 measures in length within given parameters using standard music notation.
Given a call, improvise a response.

Reading/ Writing

Read given rhythmic notation using sixteenth notes and rests and dotted half and dotted quarter notes in 4/4, common, 2/4, 3/4, 6/8 meters, and cut time.
Identify by name and notate common musical elements (endings, codas, etc.).
Demonstrate the construction of a major scale using the whole step-half step pattern.

Responding/ Evaluating

Listen to and identify intervals by ear.
Listen to and echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 4 measures in length using body percussion, the voice, and instruments.
Listen to and dictate simple rhythmic patterns up to 4 measures in length using sixteenth notes and rests and dotted half and dotted quarter notes in 4/4, common, 2/4, 3/4, 6/8 meters, and cut time.
Listen to and dictate simple melodic patterns up to 4 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 to evaluate and describe tone quality.
Recognize conducting patterns used in 4/4, common, 2/4, 3/4, and 6/8 meters and cut time.

Vocabulary

Choral
Rhythm

Sixteenth notes
Dotted notes/ rhythms
Compound meter
3/4 time
6/8 time
Cut time
Beat
Tempo
Syncopated rhythm

Melody

Intervals of thirds, fourths, and fifths
Subdominant arpeggio
Dominant arpeggio
Relative minor

Harmony

Soprano, alto, tenor, bass
3-part singing (SSA, TTB, SAB)
4-part singing (SATB, SSAA, TTBB)
Chord progression

Form

Rondo
D.S. al Coda
D.C. al Coda

Expression

Legato
Staccato
Tenuto
Accent

Other

Intonation

Instrumental
Rhythm

Dotted Quarter Note
Sixteenth Note & Rest
Compound Meter
6/8
Cut Time
Syncopation