AE17.MU.TEE.AD.1

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

AE17.MU.TEE.AD.1
Compose and improvise musical ideas for a variety of purposes and contexts.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Skills Examples

Choral
Performing

Read music composed within non-traditional notation styles.
Perform original student compositions in concerts, recitals, or other events open to the public.

Creating

Notate and format original compositions or arrangements within a publisher's guidelines.
Record and publish performances of original compositions or arrangements.

Reading/ Writing

Create and share 16-32 measure three- and four-part rhythmic and melodic exercises using standard notation within teacher-provided guidelines.
Create and rehearse complete musical compositions derived from the stylistic, historical, and cultural contexts studied in rehearsal.

Responding/ Evaluating

Engage in student-led critical discourse regarding various compositions.
Perform formal and harmonic analyses of notated music.

Instrumental
Performing

Produce a characteristic tone in all registers at all dynamic ranges.
Clap, speak on neutral syllables, count aloud, and play on instruments given rhythmic patterns using 32nds notes and rests in all meters.
Clap, speak on neutral syllables, count aloud, and play on instruments given rhythmic patterns in 3/8, 7/8, and mixed meters.
Play melodic and harmonic minor scales and arpeggios (winds, strings, percussion).
Play full range chromatic scale (winds, strings, percussion).
Demonstrate a combination of mature tone, good pitch center, and proper balance when performing as a soloist with and without accompaniment.
Play alone and with others, music graded 4.5 and advanced or greater.

Creating

Independently improvise over an accompaniment.
Compose 2-part rhythmic and melodic exercises up to 16 measures in length within given parameters using standard music notation.

Reading/ Writing

Read given rhythmic and melodic notation in 3/8, 7/8, and mixed meters.
Demonstrate the construction of a harmonic and melodic minor scales using the whole step-half step pattern.

Responding/ Evaluating

Program a variety of music for a recital or concert.

Vocabulary

Choral
Rhythm

Duplet
Polyrhythm

Melody

Tonal center/ key relations
Scale construction
Non-standard notation
Transpositions
Modal

ionian
dorian
phrygian
lydian
mixolydian
aeolian
locrain

Harmony

Non-traditional tonalities (atonality, octatonic scales, polytonality, etc.)
Heterophonic
Homophonic
Monophonic
Polyphonic
Tonal pattern

Form

Advanced polyphony, such as fugue

Expression

Texture
Culturally authentic performance
Sensitivity
Stylistic expression
Interpretation

Other

Serialism
Chamber literature
Theoretical characteristics
Structural characteristics
Compositional devices
Personally-developed criteria
Musical intent
Musical purpose

Instrumental
Rhythm

32nd Notes & Rests
5/8
7/8
Mixed Meter
Polyrhythm
Double Dotted
Hemiola
Hocket