Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Instrumental
Performing
Performing
- Perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures and showing expression and technical accuracy at a level that includes changes in tempo, key and meter.
- Respond appropriately to the cues of a conductor during performance and rehearsal.
- Describe a varied repertoire of music using correct music vocabulary.
- Define vocabulary and music terms in all rehearsal and performance music.
- Demonstrate sight-reading abilities at an age-appropriate level of complexity.
- Read and notate music which represents a variety of meters and rhythms.
- Evaluate performances of self and others to determine the accuracy of intonation, phrasing, and dynamic contrast.
Instrumental
Performing
- Play instrument focusing on how musical elements such as tempo, beat, rhythm, pitch, form, harmony, and timbre to create meaning.
- Sing, move, and respond to music from world cultures and different composers.
- Improvise and compose simple rhythmic and melodic phrases.
- Listen to and identify to music of different composers, historical periods and world cultures.
- Recognize and identify longer music forms (sonata, 12-bar blues, theme and variations).
- Identify elements of music including tonality, dynamics, tempo, and meter, using music vocabulary.
- Notice and describe what is heard in selected pieces of music and compare responses to those of others.
- Analyze music in terms of how it communicates words, feelings, moods, or images.
- Compare interpretations of the same piece of music as they occur through dance, drama, and visual art.
- Use constructive feedback to improve and refine musical performance.
- Develop and apply criteria for critiquing more complex performances of live and recorded music.
Vocabulary
Choral
Rhythm
Instrumental
Rhythm
Rhythm
- Sixteenth notes
- Dotted notes/ rhythms
- Compound meter
- 3/4 time
- 6/8 time
- Cut time
- Beat
- Tempo
- Syncopated rhythm
- Intervals of thirds, fourths, and fifths
- Subdominant arpeggio
- Dominant arpeggio
- Relative minor
- Soprano, alto, tenor, bass
- 3-part singing (SSA, TTB, SAB)
- 4-part singing (SATB, SSAA, TTBB)
- Chord progression
- Rondo
- D.S. al Coda
- D.C. al Coda
- Legato
- Staccato
- Tenuto
- Accent
- Intonation
Instrumental
Rhythm
- Dotted Quarter Note
- Sixteenth Note & Rest
- Compound Meter
- 6/8
- Cut Time
- Syncopation
- Minor
- Theme
- Upper Register
- Lower Register
- Conjunct
- Disjunct
- Texture
- Orchestration
- Endings
- Dal Segno (D.S.)
- Da Capo (D.C.)
- Coda
- Fin
- Pianissimo
- Fortissimo
- Crescendo
- Decrescendo
- Diminuendo
- Fermata
- Alternate Fingerings
- Conducting Patterns
- Gesture
- Cue
- Cutoff
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
