AE17.MU.T.AD.12

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

AE17.MU.T.AD.12
Demonstrate and justify how an analysis of the structural characteristics, context, and technological and creative decisions informs audience or performer’s interest in and response to the music.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Response to music is informed by analyzing context (social, cultural, and historical) and how creators and performers manipulate the elements of music.
EQ: How does understanding the structure and context of music inform a response?

Skills Examples

Performing

Reproduce music literature from a variety of historical periods, styles and cultures and relate its characteristics to other disciplines in the arts.
Present an original work incorporating advanced digital techniques and effects. (ex. polyrhythm, dubbing, inversion, crossfade, etc.)
Effectively manage equalization and gain staging in a live music performance.

Creating

Employ technology and various digital tools to promote and distribute music.
Use various expressive and articulation markings, and/or manipulate note velocities and durations.
Using digital tools, create musical moods from visual images.

Reading/ Writing

Using accurate terminology, describe in detail the properties of sound and how they relate to music technology.
Discuss and analyze ways composers and performers elicit specific moods within music.
Define expressive intent and analyze its role in musical composition.

Responding/ Evaluating

Analyze and describe how digital tools are used in a given work to make it unique, interesting and expressive.
Demonstrate proficiency in solving the most common technical problems in music technology.
Research and discuss way music technology is used by various cultures in the US and internationally.

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 8: Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.