AE17.MU.T.AC.6

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

AE17.MU.T.AC.6
Describe and demonstrate how context, theoretical and structural aspects of the music, and digital media/tools inform and influence prepared and improvised performances.

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?

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

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.

Creating

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.

Reading/ Writing

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.

Responding/ Evaluating

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

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 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.