Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Edit, mix and produce a new composition using various digital tools.
- Use a synthesizer to create various sounds.
- Transpose an existing piece of music using digital tools.
- Employ various compositional techniques to compose a short work using digital tools.
- Interpret and employ expressive markings in musical scores.
- Create original melodies using traditional notation, sequencing or digital recording software.
- Effectively trim an audio clip.
- Explain the role of technology in researching, creating, performing and listening to music.
- Identify compositional techniques used to provide unity and variety, tension and release in musical works.
- Identify and describe effects used in a recording- delay, sampling, looping, pan, etc.
- Compare the methodology and interpretation of two or more performances, live, sequenced or recorded, of the same music.
- Analyze and describe how a synthesizer produces various sounds.
- Research and report about the development of Music Concréte and its role in electronic music.
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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.
