AE17.MU.HI.AD.8

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

AE17.MU.HI.AD.8

Develop and apply criteria, including feedback from multiple sources, to critique varied programs of music repertoire (melodies, repertoire pieces, stylistically appropriate accompaniments, improvisations in a variety of contrasting styles) selected for individual and small group performance, 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 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 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
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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
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