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