Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Instrumental
Performing
Performing
- Demonstrate how interests, knowledge and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing and responding to music.
- Demonstrate how the elements of music impact the overall aesthetic of a performance.
- Recognize and convey expressive intent in musical performances.
- Create and notate simple rhythms using traditional or digital media.
- Relate knowledge and personal experience to performances.
- Describe how music reflects the social and political events in history.
- Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and other disciplines throughout history.
Instrumental
Performing
- Sing and play musical works representative of varied musical time periods, cultures, styles, and genres.
- Describe how period, culture, style, and genre impacts the interpretation and performance of a given work.
- With guidance, select music of various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres for study and/or performance.
- Describe how interests and experiences impact the selection of music for study and/or performance.
- Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length within a chosen style or reflective of a specific county, culture, or period.
- Compose rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 8 measures in length within a chosen style or reflective of a specific county, culture, or period using standard music notation.
- Describe personal improvisational and compositional choices made.
- Demonstrate proficiency in the application of music reading skills to music of various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres.
- Using technology, create timelines of major historical/cultural/musical events within periods and outline the lives of well-known composers.
- Listen to music using period and world music instruments.
- Listen to and identify the title and composers of well-known world music and other music of historical and cultural significance.
- Listen to and identify the genre, birthplace, cultural influences of various musical work.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
