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?
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their creative work?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Guitar: Perform two contrasting solo pieces equivalent to repertoire found in Levels Six through Eight of the Guitar Studies and Repertoire Album (Royal Conservatory-Frederick Harris Publications).
- Perform two octave major and minor scales in all keys.
- Piano: Perform two to three pieces in contrasting styles (level comparable to Magrath Masterwork Classics Levels 6-10, American Popular Piano Repertoire Books 6-8, etc.).
- Piano: appropriate level scales and arpeggiated chords (comparable to AMTA requirements to Level II or III, by age level, on p. 12 and 13.
- http://www.almta.org/AMTA_Member_Handbook.pdf
- Compose a sixteen-measure piece in the style of a designated period or composer.
- Guitar: Identify all notes on the fingerboard by note name and its corresponding note placement on the staff. Recite vertically on fingerboard going string to string one fret at a time. Ex. Fret One: String 1-F-5th line of staff, String 2-C-3rd space, String 3, G#, Ab- 3rd line, 2nd space, String 4, D-first space below, String 5, A-2nd ledger line below, String 6, E-4th space below. Repeat for all twelve frets up to the octave.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Meter (non-metered)
- Notes and Rests (irregular divisions, i.e., 5 or 7 notes per beat)
- Other (3 against 4)
- Scales (symmetrical, exotic)
- Melodic Figures (nonharmonic tones)
- Triads (diatonic triad qualities in minor keys: i iio III+ iv V VI viio)
- Seventh Chords (diatonic 7th chord qualities in major keys: IM7 iim7 iiim7 IVM7 V7 vim7 viim7-5)
- Function (modulation, pivot chords, borrowed chords)
- Non-Tertian harmony
- Figured bass
- Forms (fugue, concerto, scherzo, divertimento, etude, prelude)
- Texture (hetereophonic, mixed textures)
- Performance practice conventions in various periods/styles (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, Pop/ Jazz/ World)
- Playing techniques/ practice techniques
- Scales and Arpeggios
- I-IV-V7-I/i-iv-V7-i cadences
- Cadences/ chord progressions/ improvisation in Popular/ Rock/ Jazz style(s)
- Improvisation with non-tertian harmony
- Sight-Reading
- Ensemble Playing
- Repertoire, representative of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, and Popular/ Rock/ Jazz/ World periods/ styles, memorized and performed
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 3: Refine and complete artistic work.
