AE17.MU.HI.P.2

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

AE17.MU.HI.P.2

Select, develop, and use standard notation or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas to draft simple melodies (using forms such as theme and variation or 12-bar blues), improvisations, and three-or-more-chord accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country and gallop strumming, finger-picking patterns).

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Essential Questions

EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Guitar: perform two contrasting solo pieces in first-fifth position equivalent to repertoire found in Levels Three through Four of the Guitar Studies and Repertoire Album (Royal Conservatory-Frederick Harris Publications).
  • Piano: Perform two to three pieces in contrasting styles (level comparable to Magrath Masterwork Classics Levels 4-6, American Popular Piano Repertoire Books 4-6, etc.).
  • Piano: appropriate level scales and arpeggiated chords (comparable to AMTA requirements to Level I or II, by age level, on p. 11 and 12
  • http://www.almta.org/AMTA_Member_Handbook.pdf.
  • Perform music from a variety of popular genres such as: Blues, Country, Ragtime, Rock, Jazz, etc.
Creating
  • Create melodies based on major, and minor scale patterns in a variety of keys.
  • Harmonize the melodies using major, minor, and seventh chords.
  • Reading/ Writing
    • Develop a circle of 5ths chart
    • Identify the key signatures for all major keys
    • 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
    • Develop grading rubrics for evaluating performance: example-starting with 100 pts, subtract one point for each note error, incorrect fingering, hesitations, other points subtracted for rhythm anomalies, inability to match desired tempo, etc.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Beat (strong and weak beats, backbeat, division/subdivision)
  • Notes and Rests (dotted eighth, sixteenth)
  • Meter (duple, triple, and quadruple simple and compound meters [2/2, 2/4, 6/8; 3/2, 3/4, 9/8; 4/2, 4/4, 12/8], asymmetrical meters [5/4, 7/8, etc.])
  • Tempo (all standard Italian tempo terms, using the metronome to practice)
  • Other (triplet, swing eighths)
Melody
  • Scales (3 minor scale forms: natural, harmonic, melodic; relative and parallel minor)
  • Intervals (compound)
  • Staff Notation (double sharps and flats)
  • Melodic Figures (motive, theme, trill, passing tone)
Harmony
  • Triads (suspended chords)
  • Seventh Chords (five qualities, four inversions, suspensions)
  • Function (all diatonic chord functions)
  • Cadences (half, authentic, deceptive)
  • Lead Sheets
Form
  • Forms (AABA song form, verse, chorus, bridge, 12-bar blues, sonatina, rondo, theme and variations
  • Texture (homophonic, polyphonic)
Expression
  • Dynamics (all standard Italian terms, abbreviations, and symbols)
  • Articulation (all standard terms and symbols characteristic to the instrument)
  • Tempo and Changing Tempo (all standard Italian, English terms and abbreviations, exposure to French, German terms)
  • Character/ Style (all standard Italian and English terms, exposure to French and German terms)
Other
  • Playing techniques/ practice techniques
  • Scales and Arpeggios
  • I-IV-V7-I/i-iv-V7-i cadences
  • Improvisation (e.g., around circle of fifths)
  • Sight-Reading
  • Ensemble Playing
  • Repertoire, representative of various styles and style periods, memorized and performed

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
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