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
- Incorporate technology in performing or recording musical performances.
- Create and notate a simple melody using traditional or digital media.
- Explain how the creative process is used in similar and different ways in music and other arts.
- Recognize and describe aesthetic characteristics common to all art forms.
- Compare and contrast a musical work with another work of art (ex. dance, drama, visual art) from the same culture on the basis of cultural influences.
Instrumental
Performing
- Demonstrate how period, culture, style, and genre impacts the interpretation and performance of a given work.
- Independently select music of various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres for study and/or performance. Justify choices for instructors and peers.
- Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 16 measures in length within a chosen style or reflective of a specific county, culture, or period.
- Compose rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 16 measures in length within a chosen style or reflective of a specific county, culture, or period using standard music notation.
- Using a variety of available technologies, notate student-composed exercises reflecting various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres.
- With guidance, research and present orally or in written form the historical and cultural background of assigned composers and works.
- Listen to recordings of or attend live performances using period and world music instruments.
- Listen to and identify the composer, composition, genre, style, likely birthplace, and cultural influences of various musical work.
- With guidance, analyze music representing various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
