AE17.MU.HI.I.9

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

AE17.MU.HI.I.9
Perform with expression and technical accuracy in individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, chordal accompaniments, and repertoire pieces, demonstrating sensitivity to the audience and an understanding of the context (social, cultural, or historical).

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?

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 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.