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Essential Questions
EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?
Skills Examples
Choral
Performing
Instrumental
Performing
Performing
- Demonstrate concepts and skills to continue the enjoyment of music in community or professional settings.
- Select three contrasting pieces that include technically/ musically challenging pieces from their ensemble, solo, or chamber literature.
- Demonstrate fundamental vocal control while performing varied repertoire of music individually and in ensemble setting(s) while making appropriate use of posture, breath control, energy, tone production (with freedom, resonance, control), pitch matching, intonation, balance and blend, and sense of ensemble.
- Produce mature tone quality, accurate pitch center, and proper balance while performing in a group, small ensemble, or as a soloist.
- Demonstrate technical accuracy through appropriate use of tonal center/ key relations, scale construction, rhythm work (including pulse, note, and rest values), range development, diction, pronunciation, vowel formation, and expressive elements (including dynamics, phrasing, and stylistic characteristics).
- Perform a varied repertoire of multipart literature, including selections in various languages.
- Perform tempo markings accurately in the literature being performed.
- Perform dynamic markings accurately in the literature being performed.
- Perform articulation markings accurately in the literature being performed.
- Perform solo and ensemble literature independently.
- Respond vocally to conductor cues.
- Use standard notation symbols for pitch, rhythm, dynamics, tempo, articulation, and expression to notate personal musical ideas and the musical ideas of others.
- Perform using vocal improvisation in various musical styles (examples: jazz, blues, gospel).
- Interpret a variety of note and rest durations in simple duple, simple triple, compound, triple compound and mixed meters.
- Interpret at sight standard notation symbols for pitch and rhythm in appropriate clefs, using extended staves and some non-standard notations.
- Identify three forms of minor scales.
- Sight-sing multipart literature fluently.
- Identifying key signatures in all major keys.
- Performing music that contains accidentals.
- Counting rhythm patterns, including syncopation, mixed meters, and irregular meters.
- Performing atonal music.
- Use advanced technical and interpretive skills to sing difficult literature, which requires the ability to perform music with complex rhythms and meters, attention to phrasing and interpretation, and subtle dynamic changes.
- Exemplify independence and collaboration as a musician.
- Apply assessment practices to select, organize and present personal works to show their growth and development in music.
- Evaluate audio recordings of personal large-group and ensemble performances or rehearsals to determine techniques utilized.
- Describe how compositional devices and techniques (e.g., motives, imitation, suspension and retrograde) are used to provide unity, variety, tension and release in a music work.
- Discuss how people differ in their response to musical experiences based upon culture, environment, values and personal experiences.
- Develop and apply criteria for evaluating quality and effectiveness of musical performances and compositions.
Instrumental
Performing
- Demonstrate ability to count rhythms in all meters including mixed meter.
- Perform all minor scales and arpeggios including harmonic and melodic demonstrate ability to perform atonal and non-traditional music including modern techniques.
- Demonstrate ability to perform music in all genres from all time periods and cultural backgrounds.
- Within repertoire perform a variety of advanced bow strokes including flautando, sautille, ricochet, and louré (strings).
- Perform in higher positions across all four strings with the ability to execute large leaps (strings).
- Cello and Bass players perform and read in the treble clef (strings).
- Compose three- and four-part harmonies using correct part writing guidelines.
- Demonstrate ability to use music as a force in society and culture.
- Create a personal philosophy of music and its role in society and culture.
- Determine style, time period, and other music aspects based on music parts and score.
- Demonstrate mastery of all technical and expressive music markings including modern music techniques.
- Identify the use of compositional techniques to guide musical phrasing.
- Apply strategies to correct mistakes made during rehearsal and performance.
- Apply strategies to evaluate others' musical performance based on a consistent rubric.
- Develop and apply assessment practices to evaluate personal and ensemble performance.
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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
