AE17.MU.HI.N.6

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

AE17.MU.HI.N.6
Identify prominent melodic and harmonic characteristics in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance, including some based on reading standard notation.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?

Skills Examples

Performing

Perform 2 pieces of 4-8 measures that demonstrate appropriate skill sets.
Pieces can be solo or small ensemble.
Performances should be contrasting styles and genres.
Perform a simple melody that you composed.

Creating

Compose a simple melody using I, vi, IV, V7 chords in root position with dynamic contrast.
Compose a simple melodic line in varying rhythmic patterns in 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.
Write out a simple harmonization of a short melody such as "Ode to Joy" using major and minor chords.

Reading/ Writing

With the teacher's help, mark all phrases in pieces to be performed. Be able to play each phrase by itself. Be able to identify each note name, note value, dynamic marking, and articulation marking.
Sight-read something every day from a variety of sources, such as a graded series of classical music, a hymnal, the sample pages provided on musicnotes.com, sheetmusicplus.com, etc.

Responding/ Evaluating

Search online for recordings of the pieces you are playing. Decide what you like/ dislike about the recordings. Decide whether you would want to incorporate any ideas you hear into your own performance.
Make video and audio recordings of your playing. Listen, practice the difficult spots, and re-record.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Beat (steady beat, rit., accel., fermata)
Meter (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, barline, pickup measure)
Notes and rests (quarter, half, dotted half, whole)
Tempo (metronome markings = beats per minute; basic Italian and English terms, e.g., slow, fast, allegro, andante, largo)
Other (ties)

Melody

Scales (pentatonic, major, natural minor)
Intervals (half step, whole step; second, third, fourth, fifth, octave)
Staff notation (treble and bass clefs, grand staff, lines, spaces, ledger lines, treble G, bass F, sharps, flats, key signatures)
Melodic figures (step/leap, arpeggio, phrase)

Harmony

Intervals (half step, whole step; second, third, fourth, fifth, octave; also, M3, m3)
Triads (root, third, fifth; major and minor qualities)
Function (tonic, dominant)
I-IV-V7-I cadences

Form

Form (phrase, ostinato)
Texture (melody, bassline, accompaniment)
Notation (phrase mark, double bar, repeat sign)

Expression

Dynamics (soft/loud, p, mf, f)
Articulation (staccato, legato)

Other

Historical significance of instrument
Posture, hand position, finger numbers, basic playing techniques

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.