Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
Skills Examples
Performing
- Compose original music based on stimuli from dance, theater, visual art and other media arts.
- Record and edit multitrack digital audio and master to portable media.
- Demonstrate proficiency while using equalization and mastering techniques.
- Improvise, compose and arrange music using various digital tools.
- Create or arrange a large multi-track music compositions utilizing sequencing software.
- Reproduce/ Create medium to large scale music scores utilizing standard music notation software.
- Explain the concept of sound design.
- Explain the concept of a computer based studio.
- Produce a journal or portfolio that records the creative process.
- Identify various applications of music in multimedia, and complete projects involving multimedia such as, film/video, the internet, and graphic presentations.
- Compare and contrast various DAW software programs.
- Demonstrate critical listening skills in order to improve the quality of a mix.
Vocabulary
Rhythm
- Asymmetrical
- Measure
- Mixed Meter
- Quantize
- Polyrhythm
- Symmetrical
- Syncopation
- Velocity
- Audio Interface
- Effects
- Envelope
- Gain/ Gain Staging
- Sound Wave
- Inversion/ Retrograde
- Key Signature (Major, Minor, Modal)
- Monophonic
- Motif
- Theme
- Tonality
- Transpose
- Harmonic Progression
- Harmonics (Overtones)
- Homophony
- Modulation
- Part Writing
- Polyphony
- Suspension
- Binary (AB)
- Cadenza
- Dubbing/ Overdub
- Head (Jazz Reference)
- Improvised Solo
- Mapping
- Rondo
- Strophic
- Style
- Ternary (ABA)
- Crossfade
- Decibel (dB)
- Portamento
- Slurring
- Velocity
- Clipping
- College and Career Opportunities as a Music Technologist
- Copyright/ Intellectual Property Rights
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
- Digital Citizenship
- Directional
- Effect(s)
- Master Tracks (Tempo, Audio)
- Omnidirectional
- Roll of Music Technology in 20th and 21st Century Music Styles (Classical genres, popular genres, etc.)
- Room (wet, dry, live, etc.)
- Transcribe/ Transcription
- Virtual Instruments
- Waveform manipulation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
