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Essential Questions
EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
