AE17.MU.TEE.P.13

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

AE17.MU.TEE.P.13
Explain and support interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works citing as evidence the treatment of the elements of music, contexts, the setting of the text (when appropriate), and varied researched sources.

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Essential Questions

EU: Through their use of elements and structures of music, creators and performers provide clues to their expressive intent.
EQ: How do we discern musical creators' and performers' expressive intent?

Skills Examples

Choral
Performing

Perform a varied repertoire of music literature while demonstrating technical accuracy, appropriate tone quality, articulation, intonation, with a sense of musicality.
Respond accurately to the cues of the director.

Creating

Interpret music symbols and terms appropriately while performing a varied repertoire of music.
Select personal music experiences that represent well-developed skills, abilities, and accomplishments (ex. preparation for college auditions, portfolio, studio work performances or recordings).

Reading/ Writing

Sight-read advanced music at a beginning level of complexity.
Analyze harmonic progressions and form in a given piece of music.

Responding/ Evaluating

Describe how music reflects the social and political events in history.
Apply assessment practices to demonstrate understanding of fundamental music concepts, appropriate performance practices, and musical literacy.
Develop and articulate a personal philosophy of music including its value and purpose in daily life.

Instrumental
Performing

Perform a varied repertoire of music, independently or collaboratively representing diverse genres and cultures and showing expression and technical accuracy at a level that includes more advanced ranges and changes of tempo, key, and meter.
Demonstrate and use technology and media arts to create, perform, and research music.

Creating

Examine contemporary music styles and describe the distinctive characteristics in a repertoire of exemplary works.
Discuss how current developments in music reflect society in reference to the local community and larger world.
Describe ways that technology and the media arts are used to create, perform, and listen to music.
Recognize and identify historical and cultural contexts (e.g. time and place of a music event) that have influenced music.

Reading/ Writing

Develop criteria based on the elements of music to support personal preferences for specific music works.
Explain how and why people use and respond to music.

Responding/ Evaluating

Apply multiple criteria to evaluate quality and effectiveness of personal and selected music performances and compositions and identify areas for improvement.
Compare and contrast a varied repertoire of music on the basis of how elements of music are used to create meaning and expression.
Express how music performance and settings affect audience response.
Compare common terms and contrasting definitions used for various artistic elements used in music and other art forms.
Describe how roles of composers, performers, and others involved in music are similar to or different from those in other art forms.

Vocabulary

Choral
Rhythm

Triplets

Melody

Natural minor scale and arpeggio
Harmonic minor scale and arpeggio
Melodic minor scale and arpeggio
Raised fourth scale degree
Lowered seventh scale degree

Harmony

Three- and four-part homophony
Secondary dominant

Form

Motet
Madrigal
Recitative
Chorale

Expression

Sforzando
Expressive intent
Energy
Articulation
Style
Mood
Accent

Other

Purpose
Genre
Rubric
Refinement

Instrumental
Rhythm

Quarter Note Triplets
Eighth Note Triplets
Tempo

Lento
Allegro