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?
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Instrumental
Performing
Performing
- Perform excerpts with stylistic accuracy relative to its historical period or the historical period of its inspiration.
- Demonstrate mastery of a variety of historical performance practices.
- Improvise melodies consistent with the styles of the historical periods studied in rehearsal.
- Adapt original and/or pre-existing music to the styles of various historical periods studied in rehearsal.
- Create and share 8-16 measure three- and four-part rhythmic and melodic exercises using standard notation within teacher-provided guidelines.
- Compose exercises employing a variety of historical styles and genres (e.g., madrigal, chorale, recitative, etc.).
- Identify stylistic and historical influences in notated music.
- Determine similarities and differences among pieces of music from various historical periods.
- Evaluate the historical authenticity of commercially published music.
Instrumental
Performing
- Using the proper embouchure, breath support, articulation, and release, produce a characteristic tone within the practical range of the assigned instrument(s) at dynamic ranges between pianissimo and fortissimo.
- On a steady beat and at slow to quick tempi, clap, speak on neutral syllables, count aloud, and play on instruments given rhythmic patterns using quarter and eighth note triplets in a variety of meters.
- Play the concert Db, D, and G scales with arpeggios (winds and percussion). Play scales and arpeggios up to three flats and three sharps (strings). Play the eleven-stroke roll, thirteen-stroke roll, seventeen-stroke roll, single drag, double drag, single ratamacue, triple ratamacue, and controlled open long roll rudiments (percussion). Play a two-octave chromatic scale (winds and percussion).
- Play alone and with others, music graded 2.5 to 3 and medium.
- Improvise simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length within given parameters.
- Compose simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length within given parameters using standard music notation.
- Improvise call and responses.
- Read given rhythmic notation using quarter and eighth note triplets in a variety of meters.
- Identify by name, define, and/or notate common musical elements (caesura, tremolo, etc.).
- Identify the form of large works.
- Listen to and identify intervals by ear.
- Listen to and echo simple rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length using body percussion, the voice, and instruments.
- Listen to and dictate simple rhythmic patterns up to 8 measures in length using quarter and eighth note triplets in a variety of meters.
- Listen to and dictate simple melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length within a given range.
- Listen to, analyze, describe, and evaluate a variety of live and recorded music performed by self, peers, instructors, and professional soloists and ensembles.
Vocabulary
Choral
Rhythm
Instrumental
Rhythm
Rhythm
- Triplets
- Natural minor scale and arpeggio
- Harmonic minor scale and arpeggio
- Melodic minor scale and arpeggio
- Raised fourth scale degree
- Lowered seventh scale degree
- Three- and four-part homophony
- Secondary dominant
- Motet
- Madrigal
- Recitative
- Chorale
- Sforzando
- Expressive intent
- Energy
- Articulation
- Style
- Mood
- Accent
- Purpose
- Genre
- Rubric
- Refinement
Instrumental
Rhythm
- Quarter Note Triplets
- Eighth Note Triplets
- Tempo
- Lento
- Allegro
- Consonance
- Dissonance
- Monophonic
- Homophonic
- Polyphonic
- Binary
- AB
- Ternary
- ABA
- Strophic
- Through-Composed
- Ritardando
- Accelerando
- Caesura
- Poco a poco
- Marcato
- Sforzando
- Martelé
- Tremolo
- Multiple-Note Slur
- Hooked Bowings
- Call and Response
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
