AE17.MU.TEE.P.14

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

AE17.MU.TEE.P.14

Evaluate works and performances based on personally-developed or collaboratively-developed criteria, including analysis of the structure and context.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?

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
Harmony
  • Consonance
  • Dissonance
  • Monophonic
  • Homophonic
  • Polyphonic
Form
  • Binary
  • AB
  • Ternary
  • ABA
  • Strophic
  • Through-Composed
Expression
  • Ritardando
  • Accelerando
  • Caesura
  • Poco a poco
  • Marcato
  • Sforzando
  • Martelé
  • Tremolo
  • Multiple-Note Slur
  • Hooked Bowings
Other
  • Call and Response

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
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