AE17.MU.CT.P.1

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

AE17.MU.CT.P.1
Describe how sounds and short musical ideas can be used to represent personal experiences, moods, visual images, and/or storylines.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: The creative ideas, concepts, and feelings that influence musicians' work emerge from a variety of sources.
EQ: How do musicians generate creative ideas?

Skills Examples

Creating

Enhance a given melodic line with tempo markings, dynamics, articulations, and phrasing to better portray the intended meaning and mood of the piece.
Select music that expresses a specific mood, visual image, or storyline.

Reading/ Writing

Complete simple rhythmic dictation.

Responding/ Evaluating

Listen to a teacher selected musical composition and describe how the performer's performance decisions about technical and expressive elements directly impact the way the audience interprets the meaning behind the selection.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Simple meter
Compound meter

Melody

Contour
Conjunct/ disjunct

Harmony

Major/ minor
Monophonic
Polyphonic

Form

Call and response
Round
Canon
Binary form (AB)
Ternary form (ABA)

Expression

Dynamics
Tempo markings
Phrase

Other

Key signatures
Treble or bass clef (dependent on student voicing/ instrument)
Rhythmic dictation

Anchor Standards

Anchor Standard 1: Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.