Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Instrumental
Performing
Performing
- Read music composed within non-traditional notation styles.
- Perform original student compositions in concerts, recitals, or other events open to the public.
- Notate and format original compositions or arrangements within a publisher's guidelines.
- Record and publish performances of original compositions or arrangements.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Program a variety of music for a recital or concert.
Vocabulary
Choral
Rhythm
Instrumental
Rhythm
Rhythm
- Duplet
- Polyrhythm
- Tonal center/ key relations
- Scale construction
- Non-standard notation
- Transpositions
- Modal
- ionian
- dorian
- phrygian
- lydian
- mixolydian
- aeolian
- locrain
- Non-traditional tonalities (atonality, octatonic scales, polytonality, etc.)
- Heterophonic
- Homophonic
- Monophonic
- Polyphonic
- Tonal pattern
- Advanced polyphony, such as fugue
- Texture
- Culturally authentic performance
- Sensitivity
- Stylistic expression
- Interpretation
- 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
- Melodic Minor
- Harmonic Minor
- Modes
- Atonal
- Polytonal
- Sonata Form
- Minuet and Trio
- Scherzo
- Rubato
- Cadenza
- Ad lib
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
