AE17.MU.TEE.P.15

Arts Education (2017) - Grade(s): 6-12

AE17.MU.TEE.P.15
Evaluate works and performances based on personally-developed or collaboratively-developed criteria, including analysis of the structure and context.

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?

Skills Examples

Choral
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.

Creating

Recognize and convey expressive intent in musical performances.
Create and notate simple rhythms using traditional or digital media.

Reading/ Writing

Relate knowledge and personal experience to performances.

Responding/ Evaluating

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.

Creating

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.

Reading/ Writing

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.

Responding/ Evaluating

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

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