AE17.MU.HI.I.5

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

AE17.MU.HI.I.5
Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music is selected based on personal interest, music reading skills, and technical skill (citing technical challenges that need to be addressed), as well as the context of the performances.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Performers' interest in and knowledge of musical works, understanding of their own technical skill, and the context for a performance influence the selection of repertoire.
EQ: How do performers select repertoire?

Skills Examples

Performing

Perform three or four repertoire pieces in contrasting styles (see Artistic Process/ Creating).

Creating

Choose one of your repertoire pieces, analyze the texture, chords, and form, and write a piece of your own in the same style.

Reading/ Writing

Notate your piece with staff paper or in a music notation software, such as Noteflight or Finale, etc.
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

Research the time period and composers of the pieces you are performing. Find out "performance practice" information for each time period, style, composer, or piece. Determine whether your research affects the way you perform pieces.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Beat (division into twos and threes)
Meter (2/2, 3/8, 6/8, common time, cut time, alla breve)
Notes and Rests (dotted quarter, eighth)
Tempo (more Italian terms, such as adagio, allegretto, andantino, con brio, con moto, lento, moderato, vivace, vivo; metronome ranges for tempos)
Other (syncopation, anticipation, a tempo)

Melody

Scales (chromatic, whole tone, harmonic minor, blues scale)
Intervals (P1, m2, M2, m3, M3, P4, tritone [A4, D5], P5, m6, M6, m7, M7, P8)
Staff Notation (accidentals, enharmonic notes)
Melodic Figures (sequence, Guitar: hammer-on, pull-off; Piano: grace note)

Harmony

Circle of Fifths
Intervals (P1, m2, M2, m3, M3, P4, tritone [A4, D5], P5, m6, M6, m7, M7, P8)
Triads (four qualities, inversions)
Seventh Chords (M7, Mm7, m7)
Function (tonic, dominant, subdominant)
Cadences (open, closed)
Other (consonance/ dissonance)

Expression

Dynamics (pp-ff, cresc., dim.)
Articulation (accent, sfz, tenuto; Guitar: hammer ons, pull offs; Piano: two note slurs)
See Beat and Tempo above
Character/ Style (English and Italian terms, e.g., cantabile, dolce, espressivo, giocoso, scherzando, spiritoso)

Other (at a level appropriate to the Early Intermediate/ Intermediate student)

Playing techniques/ practice techniques
Scales and Arpeggios
I-IV-V7-I/i-iv-V7-i cadences
Improvisation (e.g., diatonic chord progressions, such as F-G-C-Am)
Sight-Reading
Ensemble Playing
Repertoire, representative of various styles, memorized and performed

Anchor Standards

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