AE17.MU.T.P.1

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

AE17.MU.T.P.1
Generate melodic, rhythmic and harmonic ideas, for compositions or improvisations using digital tools.

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?

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.

Creating

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.

Reading/ Writing

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.

Responding/ Evaluating

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

Melody

Audio Track
Bass Clef
Clef
Electronic Instrument
Pitch
Pitch Contour
Key Signature (Major)
Traditional and Iconic Notation
Treble Clef

Harmony

Chord
Instrumentation
Layer
Texture
Tonal

Form

"ABA"
"AB"
Blues Form (12-bar)
Bridge
Cut/ Paste
Ending
Improvise
Introduction
Verse-Refrain
Repeat Ending

Expression

Dynamics
Instrumentation
Fading (in/ out)
Mix/ Mixing
Tempo
Volume Levels

Other

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.