AE17.MU.HI.P.3

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

AE17.MU.HI.P.3
Develop and apply criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of compositions (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).

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians evaluate, and refine their work through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?

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.

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.

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 3: Refine and complete artistic work.