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

AE17.MU.HI.I.4

Share final versions of melodies (created over specified chord progressions or AB/ABA forms) and and two- to three-chord accompaniments for given melodies, demonstrating an understanding of how to develop and organize personal musical ideas.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians' presentation of creative work is the culmination of a process of creation and communication.
EQ: When is creative work ready to share?

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.
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