Unpacked Content
Essential Questions
EU: Musicians' creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
EQ: How do musicians make creative decisions?
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.
- Complete simple rhythmic dictation.
- 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
- Contour
- Conjunct/ disjunct
- Major/ minor
- Monophonic
- Polyphonic
- Call and response
- Round
- Canon
- Binary form (AB)
- Ternary form (ABA)
- Dynamics
- Tempo markings
- Phrase
- Key signatures
- Treble or bass clef (dependent on student voicing/ instrument)
- Rhythmic dictation
Anchor Standards
Anchor Standard 2: Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
