AE17.MU.HI.I.6

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

AE17.MU.HI.I.6
Identify prominent melodic, harmonic, and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, or historical) in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, chordal accompaniments, and repertoire pieces 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 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.