Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Analyzing creators' context and how they manipulate elements of music provides insight into their intent and informs performance.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of musical works inform performance?
Skills Examples
IMPORTANT NOTE
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
In this section, performing refers to playing an audio file, performing original music in a public forum, or disseminating to the public in some way (i.e., web). Performing
- Select from your electronically created or notated works which one or ones you want to share publicly on your school's website, or in another public forum.
- Using virtual instruments, rehearse creating live, on the spot, music where you make rhythmic, melodic, and timbral decisions.
- Using an original background track, improvise over that track using virtual instruments. Record your improvisation and listen back.
- Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.) create loops that use both melody and percussive rhythm instruments
- Use original loops to create musical Binary, Ternary, Strophic, etc. forms.
- Use a tablet or other portable recording device and record different sounds in your environment. Use those sounds as part of an overall electronic work.
- Using notation software, notate your melodic loop (motif) and then create a logical chordal harmony for your melody.
- Using notation software notate a 2-3 measure rhythmic motif you created using sequencing or audio recording software.
- Listen to a peer's electronic musical work and provide feedback based on your interpretation of the music for three musical areas (choose three from: rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, choice of electronic tools).
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Click Track
- Compound Meter
- Duple
- Mixed Meter
- Quantize
- Simple Meter
- Traditional and Iconic Notation
- Traditional Notation/ Music Symbols
- Triple
- Frequency
- Instrumentation Choice
- Interval
- Key Signature (Minor)
- Multitrack Recording
- Traditional and Iconic Notation
- Tone Generator
- Transpose
- Virtual Instruments
- Atonal
- Chord Progression
- Consonance
- Dissonance
- Tension-Release
- Transpose
- Binary (AB)
- Coda
- Cut/ Paste
- Editing
- Interlude
- Mixing
- Sampling
- Strophic
- Style
- Ternary (ABA)
- Amplitude
- Articulation
- Delay
- Electronic Music
- Musique Concréte
- Panning
- Pitch Bending
- Timbre
- Tone Color
- Bit
- Bouncing (to)
- Byte
- Compress/ Compression
- Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
- Decibel (dB)
- Difference between Digital and Analog Recording
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
- Digital Citizenship
- Effect(s)
- Equalization
- Event List
- Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
- MIDI Controller
- Panning
- Patch
- Piano Roll
- Reverb (Reverberation)
- Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
- Synthesizer
- Streaming
- Sample (as in live instrument sample)
- Sampling Rate
- Sequence/ Sequencer
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
