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?
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.
- 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.
- Write a simple melody following basic chord structures using 4-part harmony utilizing major and minor key centers
- 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
- 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 5: Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation.
