AE17.MU.HI.AD.7

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

AE17.MU.HI.AD.7
Explain and present interpretations that demonstrate and describe the context (social, cultural, and historical) and an understanding of the creator’s intent in repertoire for varied programs of music that include melodies, repertoire pieces, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, and improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Performers make interpretive decisions based on their understanding of context and expressive intent
EQ: How do performers interpret musical works?

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.