AE17.MU.CT.AC.1

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

AE17.MU.CT.AC.1
Describe and demonstrate how sounds and musical ideas can be used to represent sonic events, memories, visual images, concepts, texts, 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

Provide suggestions, using musical terminology, that help improve a musical performance.
Select a passage from literature and create a simple composition to illustrate the meaning of the text.
Select several pieces of music, varied in genre, to illustrate a storyline for classmates to interpret.

Reading/ Writing

Complete melodic and rhythmic dictation of increased difficulty.

Vocabulary

Rhythm

Mixed meter

Melody

Contour
Conjunct/ disjunct

Harmony

Major/ minor
Homophonic
Heterophonic
Polyphonic

Form

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

Expression

Articulations
Stylistic markings

Other

Key signatures
Treble or bass clef (dependent on student voicing/ instrument)
Simple aural skills (ear training)
Simple sight reading
Melodic dictation
Improvisation

Anchor Standards

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