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

AE17.MU.CT.P.10

Create rehearsal plans for works, identifying repetition and variation within the form.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas, persistence, and the application of appropriate criteria.
EQ: How do musicians improve the quality of their performance?

Skills Examples

Performing
  • Select specific passages, sections, or movements in musical works that express personal experiences, moods, or visual images.
  • Develop interpretations of musical works based on an understanding of the elements of music, style, mood, function, and context.
Creating
  • Write a simple melody following basic chord structures.
  • Describe and demonstrate how sounds or musical ideas can be used to represent and express visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines through composing and arranging.
Reading/ Writing
  • Write a simple melody following basic chord structures using 4-part harmony utilizing major and minor key centers
Responding/ Evaluating
  • Analyze the elements of music from written and aural examples relating them to style, mood, and context.
  • Describe how the analysis provides models for personal growth as composer, performer, and/or listener.

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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
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