AE17.MU.HI.I.3

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

AE17.MU.HI.I.3
Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of melodies (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms) and two- and three-chord accompaniments for given melodies.

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?

Skills Examples

Performing

Piano: Perform three or four pieces in contrasting styles (level comparable to Hal Leonard Piano Lessons Book C and D, Magrath Masterwork Classics Levels 3 and 4, American Popular Piano Repertoire Books 3 and 4, etc.).
Piano: appropriate level scales and arpeggiated chords (comparable to AMTA requirements to Level I, by age level, on p. 11
http://www.almta.org/AMTA_Member_Handbook.pdf
Guitar: perform two contrasting solo pieces in first-second position.
Equivalent to repertoire found in Levels "Introductory" through Level Two of the Guitar Studies and Repertoire Album (Royal Conservatory-Frederick Harris Publications).
Guitar: demonstrate accompaniment to a folk song using principal chords, I, IV, V or V7 and demonstrate two contrasting strum patterns (i.e., D DuDuDu, or syncopated strum D, Du, u Du (D=down, U=Up strum).

Creating

Define musical terms and tempo markings (i.e., Andante, Moderato, Allegro).
Identify historical periods within music, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century, and identify two significant composers from each period.

Reading/ Writing

Identify key signatures for major keys, C, G, D, A, E, F, Bb, Eb.
Compose a melody and harmonize it using chords, I, IV, V, vi.
Determine if a piece is in a major of minor key based on the key signature, melody and harmony.

Responding/ Evaluating

Critique music performance based on interpretation, stylistic accuracy, attention to dynamics and phrasing, and overall execution.
Discuss the differences between classical music and popular music and how the differences have evolved over time.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

meter
time signature (with 6/8, 3/8, cut time
eighth notes, sixteenth notes, dotted eighth notes
ties, accents, fermatas
time signature (cut or 2/2; 6/8)
dotted half note
dotted quarter note
eighth note/ rest
tied notes
accent
fermata

Melody

interval
whole steps, half steps
accidentals
key signatures

Harmony

chords
principal chords-tonic, subdominant, dominant
note stem direction to indicate right hand fingering (guitar)
harmonic intervals-3rd, 5th
arpeggio

Form

binary form-AB
ternary form-ABA
Song form-Verse, Chorus, Bridge
D.C. al Fine, D.S. al Fine, Coda

Expression

dynamics (pianissimo -fortissimo-pp-ff)
crescendo
decrescendo, diminuendo
staccato
legato
slurred notes (guitar- "hammer ons," "pull offs")

Other

barre (guitar)
harmonic (guitar)
rasgueado (guitar)
tambora (guitar)
pizzicato (guitar)

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.