Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians judge performance based on criteria that vary across time, place, and cultures. The context and how a work is presented influence the audience response.
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
EQ: When is a performance judged ready to present? How do context and the manner in which musical work is presented influence audience response?
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 6: Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.
