AE17.MU.HI.P.8

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

AE17.MU.HI.P.8
Develop and apply criteria to critique individual and small group performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, improvisations, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments in a variety of patterns (such as arpeggio, country and gallop strumming, finger-picking patterns), and create rehearsal strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

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Essential Questions

EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?

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.).
Perform music from a variety of popular genres such as: Blues, Country, Ragtime, Rock, Jazz, etc.

Creating

Choose a genre/ style and with your teacher's help, realize a chord progression in an appropriate figuration/ style.

Choose a familiar melody and create a Theme and Variations featuring several different styles.

Reading/ Writing

Notate your compositions, using staff paper or notational software.
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

Find several different recordings of each repertoire piece you are learning. Notice differences/ similarities in tempo, phrasing, technical skill, and overall effect. Decide which characteristics make a convincing performance.

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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.