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
- Apply assessment practices to demonstrate advancement of musical skills.
- Create and notate harmonization of a simple melody using traditional or digital media.
- Investigate the ethical and legal issues surrounding the access and use of musical works (ex. audio and video recordings; printed sheet music).
- Describe how the purpose, meaning and value of music changes because of the impact of life experiences.
Instrumental
Performing
- Independently select music of various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres for use on a concert or recital.
- Study and perform on period and world instruments.
- Justify personal improvisational and compositional choices made.
- Compare and contrast how creative thinking is used in the Arts and fields outside the Arts.
- Construct composer and program notes for a concert or recital.
- Independently research and present orally or in written form the historical and cultural background of chosen composers and works.
- Independently analyze music representing various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres.
- Listen to and identify aurally and visually period and world music instruments.
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 10: Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences.
