AE17.MU.T.P.11

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

AE17.MU.T.P.11

Cite reasons for choosing music based on the use of the elements of music, digital and electronic aspects, and connections to interest or purpose.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Individuals' selection of musical works is influenced by their interests, experiences, understandings, and purposes.
EQ: How do individuals choose music to experience?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Choose an existing musical work to transcribe electronically using digital tools.
  • Listen to a recorded, sequenced or live performance and describe the interpretation or methodology used.
  • Demonstrate rhythmic accuracy through beat construction.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of melodic writing through accurate pitch notation.
  • Accurately interpret pitches, rhythms and any other traditional and non-traditional notation.
Creating
  • Demonstrate knowledge of expressive markings in musical scores.
  • Identify and describe elements of music heard in various types of music, traditional and digital.
  • Create arrangements of familiar melodies using traditional notation, sequencing or digital recording software.
Reading/ Writing
  • Identify the elements of music in a given work using developmentally appropriate vocabulary.
  • Identify the properties of sound in a given work using developmentally appropriate vocabulary.
  • Identify and describe various plugins and tools available within a DAW.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Evaluate a composition or arrangement by comparing it, through use of a rubric, to similar or exemplar models.
  • Trace the development of electronic music and digital tools from the 1940's to the 1980's.
  • Form and express opinions about music heard in formal and informal live and recorded performances.

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 7: Perceive and analyze artistic work.
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