AE17.MU.T.AD.14

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

AE17.MU.T.AD.14

Develop and justify the evaluation of a variety of music based on established and personally-developed criteria, digital, electronic, and analog features, and understanding of purpose and context.

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Essential Questions

EU: The personal evaluation of musical works and performances is informed by analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.
EQ: How do we judge the quality of musical work(s) and performance(s)?

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 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 9: Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.
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