AE17.MU.T.AC.1

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

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

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

Reproduce music literature from a variety of historical periods, styles, and cultures.
Incorporate music technology and digital tools in performing or recorded music.
Improvise over familiar melodies using accompaniment software.
Improvise over familiar melodies using sequencing software.

Creating

Improvise and compose short compositions using a variety of digital tools and technology.
Demonstrate technical accuracy while using various digital tools.
Demonstrate proper signal flow when using digital tools
Describe equalization and mastering techniques.

Reading/ Writing

Identify analog and digital recording and editing techniques.
Identify music forms used in vocal and instrumental genres from various historical periods.
Discuss and analyze signal flow as it relates to audio interface connections.

Responding/ Evaluating

Analyze and describe how form and technique help to convey the meaning of a given piece of music.
Trace the development of electronic music and digital tools from the 1980's to the present.
Discuss and write about the importance of intellectual property rights as it relates to music technology.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Click Track
Compound Meter
Duple
Mixed Meter
Quantize
Simple Meter
Traditional and Iconic Notation
Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
Triple

Melody

Frequency
Instrumentation Choice
Interval
Key Signature (Minor)
Multitrack Recording
Traditional and Iconic Notation
Tone Generator
Transpose
Virtual Instruments

Harmony

Atonal
Chord Progression
Consonance
Dissonance
Tension-Release
Transpose

Form

Binary (AB)
Coda
Cut/ Paste
Editing
Interlude
Mixing
Sampling
Strophic
Style
Ternary (ABA)

Expression

Amplitude
Articulation
Delay
Electronic Music
Musique Concréte
Panning
Pitch Bending
Timbre
Tone Color

Other

Bit
Bouncing (to)
Byte
Compress/ Compression
Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
Decibel (dB)
Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
Digital Audio
Digital Citizenship
Effect(s)
Equalization
Event List
Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
MIDI Controller
Panning
Patch
Piano Roll
Reverb (Reverberation)
Roll of Music Technology in 20^th and 21^st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
Synthesizer
Streaming
Sample (as in live instrument sample)
Sampling Rate
Sequence/ Sequencer

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.