Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Present and perform a varied repertoire of music representing diverse genres and cultures using digital tools.
- Use amplification and playback systems to produce and edit sound.
- Accurately recognize and interpret pitches, rhythms and other traditional notational symbols.
- Demonstrate basic sequencing techniques to manipulate known songs using digital tools.
- Compose and notate a simple melody as well as melodic variation using traditional and digital tools.
- Improvise new lyrics to known songs using digital tools and technology.
- Identify the properties of sound using developmentally appropriate vocabulary.
- Explain the role of technology in creating, performing and listening to music.
- Describe basic MIDI technology and its applications.
- Differentiate between various entry methods in notation, sequencing and recording.
- Describe how the elements of music are used in a given work to make it unique, interesting and expressive.
- Discuss what digital citizenship means and how it applies to music technology.
- Research and write about important performers, composers, artists, etc. who contributed to the development of digital music tools and production.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Bar line
- Beat/ Pulse/ BPM
- Click Track
- Drum Machine
- Duration
- Meter
- Metronome
- Note Values
- Quantize
- Steady Beat
- Tempo
- Ties
- Time Signature
- Traditional and Iconic Notation
- Audio Track
- Bass Clef
- Clef
- Electronic Instrument
- Pitch
- Pitch Contour
- Key Signature (Major)
- Traditional and Iconic Notation
- Treble Clef
- Chord
- Instrumentation
- Layer
- Texture
- Tonal
- "ABA"
- "AB"
- Blues Form (12-bar)
- Bridge
- Cut/ Paste
- Ending
- Improvise
- Introduction
- Verse-Refrain
- Repeat Ending
- Dynamics
- Instrumentation
- Fading (in/ out)
- Mix/ Mixing
- Tempo
- Volume Levels
- Analog
- Auxiliary (AUX)
- Bandwidth
- Channel
- Compress/ Compression
- Controller
- Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
- Digital, Digital Tools
- Digital Citizenship
- Effect(s)
- File Types (wav, mp3, etc.)
- Loop
- Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
- MIDI Controller
- Music Technology History
- Normalization
- Notate, Notation Software
- Panning
- Piano Roll
- Rehearse
- Sequence/ Sequencer
- Timbre
- Track
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
