AE17.MU.HI.AD.6

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

AE17.MU.HI.AD.6
Identify and describe important theoretical and structural characteristics and context (social, cultural, and historical) in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance programs that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?

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).
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.).

Creating

Compose a piece using non-diatonic scales, such as whole tone, pentatonic, octatonic, and invented scales.
Compose a piece using modes other than minor/ major for melody and harmony.
Compose a piece using a 12-tone row.
Compose a piece using non-triadic harmonic structures like quartal and quintal harmony, chord clusters, and harmonies made from mixtures of different intervals.
Reharmonize a familiar hymn tune using jazz chords.

Reading/ Writing

Find and study scores written in non-traditional music notation (chance music, indeterminacy, proportional notation, graphic scores, etc.).
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.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Meter (non-metered)
Notes and Rests (irregular divisions, i.e., 5 or 7 notes per beat)
Other (3 against 4)

Melody

Scales (symmetrical, exotic)
Melodic Figures (nonharmonic tones)

Harmony

Triads (diatonic triad qualities in minor keys: i ii^o III+ iv V VI vii^o)
Seventh Chords (diatonic 7th chord qualities in major keys: IM⁷ iim⁷ iiim⁷ IVM⁷ V⁷ vim⁷ viim^7-5)
Function (modulation, pivot chords, borrowed chords)
Non-Tertian harmony
Figured bass

Form

Forms (fugue, concerto, scherzo, divertimento, etude, prelude)
Texture (hetereophonic, mixed textures)

Expression

Performance practice conventions in various periods/ styles (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, Pop/ Jazz/ World)

Other

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 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.