AE17.MU.T.AC.12

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

AE17.MU.T.AC.12
Explain how an analysis of the structure, context, and technological aspects of the music informs the audience’s or performer’s response.

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?

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.

Creating

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.

Reading/ Writing

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.

Responding/ Evaluating

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

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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.