Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Instrumental
Performing
Performing
- Independently prepare and accurately perform a varied repertoire of ensemble and solo music showing continuous improvement in performance ability, advanced technique, and complexity.
- Sing advanced literature demonstrating accurate intonation and rhythm, fundamental skills and a high degree of musicality.
- Improvise over chord progressions and symbols provided by the instructor.
- Identify the elements of music across musical styles and world cultures.
- Interpret music symbols in terms of historical and stylistic contexts.
- Identify the tonality of a given work in relation to intervals, scales, primary and secondary chords, and key relationships.
- Demonstrate sight-reading abilities at an advanced level of complexity.
- Apply assessment practices to select, organize and present personal works to show growth and development of musical skills and literacy.
Instrumental
Performing
- Perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures alone and in ensembles.
- Interpret articulations, expressive symbols, and terms while performing.
- Identify and trace the development of music forms across historical periods.
- Listen to, analyze and describe various music works on the basis of their stylistic qualities and the historical and cultural contexts in which they were created.
- Describe the elements of music and their functions.
- Identify traditional harmonic progressions in selected repertoire. Identify musical forms used in vocal and instrumental genres from world cultures.
- Describe how music reflects the social and political events of history and the role of the musician in history and culture.
- Discuss how the purpose, meaning, and value of music changes because of the impact of life experiences.
- Apply assessment practices to demonstrate the learning and progress made in their development of music skill and music literacy.
- Describe how the use of elements of music affects the aesthetic impact of a music selection.
- Describe the use of elements of music as they relate to expression in a varied repertoire of music.
Vocabulary
Choral
Rhythm
Instrumental
Rhythm
Rhythm
- Mixed meter
- Syncopation
- Full chromatic scale
- Modal melodies
- Minor scale
- Chromatic mediant and submediant chords
- Counter melodies
- Harmonic sequences
- Various cultural forms
- Various culture-specific expressive techniques (ululation, overtone singing, etc.)
- Creative intent
- Stylistic characteristics
- Facial expression
- Historical context
- Cultural context
- Artistic delivery
Instrumental
Rhythm
- 5/4
- 6/4
- 3/8
- 9/8
- 12/8
- Largo
- Grave
- Vivace
- Presto
- Double Flat
- Double Sharp
- Relative Minor
- Pure Minor
- Natural Minor
- Monophony
- Polyphony
- Homophony
- Tonic
- Dominant
- Tonic
- Dominant
- Subdominant
- Cadence
- Imitation
- Counterpoint
- Rondo
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
