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

AE17.MU.T.AD.6

Examine, evaluate, and critique 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 publicly share on your own or the school's website.
  • Create an accompanying audio or video interpretation of your work that focuses on the structure and the context in which the music should be heard.
Creating
  • Using music sequencing software (like GarageBand, Cubase, Studio One, Logic, Cakewalk, Mixcraft, etc.), create a larger musical form to share with an audience of your peers or in a larger forum.
  • Create loops and use them in new compositions.
  • Use audio recording software to record acoustic elements to accompany or enhance your electronic/computer composition elements.
  • Edit your work to increase or clarify expression through tempo, dynamics, velocity, etc.
  • Use filters and other audio editing tools (normalization, equalization, amplification, reverberation, delay, etc.) to further enhance your work.
Reading/ Writing
  • Using notation software, notate different elements of an overall composition.
  • Using notation software, listen to a peer's work and notate rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic elements that you hear.
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Listen to peers' compositions or compositional elements and provide constructive feedback for rhythm, melody, harmony, form, expression, timbre choices, and overall creativity.
  • Write a narrative explaining the choices you used in your own musical creations/ compositions.
  • Study different historical styles of music and use some of those compositional techniques in your electronic music. Explain what elements you chose and why.
  • Record a video explaining the meaning(s) and inspiration(s) for your work.
  • Do a "newscast" interview with a peer and ask him/ her how he/ she interprets his/her own work.

Vocabulary

Rhythm
  • Asymmetrical
  • Measure
  • Mixed Meter
  • Quantize
  • Polyrhythm
  • Symmetrical
  • Syncopation
  • Velocity
Melody
  • Audio Interface
  • Effects
  • Envelope
  • Gain/ Gain Staging
  • Sound Wave
  • Inversion/ Retrograde
  • Key Signature (Major, Minor, Modal)
  • Monophonic
  • Motif
  • Theme
  • Tonality
  • Transpose
Harmony
  • Harmonic Progression
  • Harmonics (Overtones)
  • Homophony
  • Modulation
  • Part Writing
  • Polyphony
  • Suspension
Form
  • Binary (AB)
  • Cadenza
  • Dubbing/ Overdub
  • Head (Jazz Reference)
  • Improvised Solo
  • Mapping
  • Rondo
  • Strophic
  • Style
  • Ternary (ABA)
Expression
  • Crossfade
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Portamento
  • Slurring
  • Velocity
Other
  • 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 4: Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
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