AE17.MU.HI.I.10

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

AE17.MU.HI.I.10

Explain reasons for selecting music, citing characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, and context.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Guitar: Play a 3-chord song using open chords (CAGED) using a down-up strumming pattern.
  • Piano: Play C, G, F, D, A and E major scales, one octave, hands separate.
  • Perform 3 pieces of contrasting styles with varied time signatures to demonstrate proficiency.
  • Perform while focusing on how musical elements such as tempo, melody, harmony and dynamics help convey meaning within a piece.
  • Perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures and showing expression and technical accuracy at a level that includes changes in tempo and meter.
Creating
  • Define musical vocabulary terms that appear in selected repertoire.
  • Identify various composers, historical periods and world cultures found in selected repertoire.
  • Describe tempo changes within a piece and what effect that has on the desired performance outcome.
Reading/ Writing
  • Develop sight-reading benchmarks and growth goals in line with local guidelines.
  • Identify key signatures of 4 major scales.
  • Read and notate music which represents a variety of meters and rhythms.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Analyze music in terms of how it communicates words, feelings, moods, or images.
  • Develop constructive feedback to improve and refine musical performances.
  • Develop and apply criteria for critiquing more complex performances of live and recorded music.
  • Examine performances of self and others to determine accuracy of parts in relation to pitch, rhythm, dynamic contrast and phrasing.
  • Discuss personal preferences for certain musical pieces, performance, composers and musical genres.

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 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
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