AE17.MU.T.AD.6

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 20^th and 21^st 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.